Gemini 3 Flash
Announced Dec 17, 2025
Reasoning at interactive speed
What could it do?
Google brought Gemini 3 reasoning and multimodal capabilities to a faster Flash model.
What changed?
Expanded access across the Gemini app and developer products.
Made the generation useful for frequent interactive tasks.
Where it fell short
Speed and quality vary by workload and thinking settings.
Release facts were checked against the sources below. Performance claims belong to the developers; we have not independently tested these models.
Developer announcement or release logBenchmark results
A benchmark estimate, not a percentage or capability multiplier. Reasoning settings are not specified in this source table. Historical estimates can change in later snapshots.
Epoch AI methodology ↗Download the source snapshotChecked Oct 7, 2026 · CC BY 4.0One explicitly named variant per release. Scores come from the same Overall snapshot; preliminary entries and reported intervals are preserved. These are current ratings of earlier variants, not their launch day ratings.
Source: Text Arena ↗Download selected resultsChecked Oct 8, 2026Only mini-SWE-agent v2.0.0 submissions, one run per model. Reasoning effort varies and is labelled. These are published submissions, not a rerun by Leapscope. Latest included release: February 5, 2026; latest run: February 26, 2026.
Source: SWE bench Verified ↗Download selected resultsChecked Oct 8, 2026