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gemini-3-flash vs gemini-3.5-flash

	gemini-3-flash	gemini-3.5-flash
Providers	Google	Google
Input $/M	$0.50	$1.50
Output $/M	$3.00	$9.00
Output multiplier	×6.00	×6.00
Context window	1M tokens	1M tokens
Intelligence index	—	—
Coding index	—	70.1

What the numbers mean

gemini-3-flash is roughly 3.0× cheaper on input than gemini-3.5-flash. If your workload passes the quality bar on the cheaper model, that gap compounds across every request; route to gemini-3.5-flash deliberately rather than by default.

Tags: gemini-3-flash — Chat, Reasoning, Coding, Vision · gemini-3.5-flash — Chat, Reasoning, Coding, Vision

Code

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://starseaapi.com/v1", api_key="sk-...")

# gemini-3-flash
client.chat.completions.create(model="gemini-3-flash", messages=[{"role":"user","content":"Hi"}])

# gemini-3.5-flash
client.chat.completions.create(model="gemini-3.5-flash", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hi"}])

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