95% offGemini 3 Flash Preview API
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Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Pricing
Cheapest live price, per 1 million tokens.
Input / 1M tokens
$0.250 OpenRouter
Output / 1M tokens
$1.50 OpenRouter
Cache read / 1M
Repeated prompt prefixes
Cache read is the discounted rate for repeated prompt prefixes (system prompts, agent context).
Capabilities · 10
Specifications
- Context window
- 256K
- Max output
- 66K
- Type
- Text
- Creator
- Live sellers
- 402
- Requests / 24h
- 14,757
Price history · 60 days
Estimated monthly cost
30 days at the cheapest live price.
Quick start
OpenAI-compatible — change the base URL and key. Get a key from the dashboard.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.qubax.ai/v1",
api_key="YOUR_QUBAX_API_KEY",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="gemini-3-flash-preview",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)About Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Gemini 3 Flash Preview is a language model developed by Google. It's particularly well-suited for analyzing images, screenshots, and visual content, tackling complex, multi-step reasoning problems, orchestrating tool-using agents that call APIs and external services, producing structured outputs for reliable data extraction and handling large contexts of up to 256K tokens. Its 256K-token context window means you can pass in entire documents, codebases, or conversation histories without losing context. It can write up to 66K tokens in a single response.
As of Nov 4, 2026, Gemini 3 Flash Preview costs $0.013 per 1M input tokens and $0.077 per 1M output tokens on Qubax, versus $0.250 / $1.50 on OpenRouter (95% less on input). A typical 1,000 chat requests (2K tokens in, 500 out) come to about $0.06. Measured availability over the last 7 days: 100.0%. 402 independent compute providers currently serve it, so requests fail over automatically. It handled 14,757 requests on Qubax in the last 24 hours. Pay with USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH or 350+ other coins — no credit card required.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does the Gemini 3 Flash Preview API cost?
On Qubax, Gemini 3 Flash Preview costs $0.013 per 1M input tokens and $0.077 per 1M output tokens. This is 95% cheaper than OpenRouter's price of $0.250 per 1M input tokens.
Is the Gemini 3 Flash Preview API compatible with OpenAI?
Yes. Qubax provides an OpenAI-compatible API. You can use Gemini 3 Flash Preview as a drop-in replacement by changing your base URL to https://api.qubax.ai/v1 and using your Qubax API key. It works with Cline, Cursor, OpenCode, Hermes Agent, and any tool that supports OpenAI APIs.
Why is Gemini 3 Flash Preview cheaper on Qubax than OpenRouter?
Qubax sources AI inference from an open compute marketplace on the Base blockchain where GPU providers compete on price. We pass the savings to you — 95% cheaper than OpenRouter's price for Gemini 3 Flash Preview.
How do I pay for Gemini 3 Flash Preview API usage?
Qubax uses prepaid crypto credits. Top up with USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH, SOL or 350+ other coins and your balance is deducted as you use the API. No credit card or KYC required.
What is the context window of Gemini 3 Flash Preview?
Gemini 3 Flash Preview supports a context window of 256K tokens, allowing you to process large documents, codebases, or long conversations in a single request.
What can I build with Gemini 3 Flash Preview?
You can use Gemini 3 Flash Preview to analyze images and visual content, tackle complex multi-step reasoning tasks, build autonomous agents that call external tools and APIs, generate structured JSON output for data pipelines and process long documents and entire codebases. Because it's served through Qubax's OpenAI-compatible API, integration into existing apps, agents, or workflows takes just a few lines of code.
How fast and reliable is Gemini 3 Flash Preview on Qubax?
Measured time to first token (p95) on Qubax is 26.9s. Its 7-day success rate is 100.0%. Responses stream token by token. 402 sellers serve it, so if one is slow or down the request moves to the next.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs DeepSeek V4 Flash: which should I choose?
Gemini 3 Flash Preview by Google and DeepSeek V4 Flash by DeepSeek are both strong models in a similar price tier. Gemini 3 Flash Preview excels at complex reasoning and supports vision/image inputs. DeepSeek V4 Flash comes from a different lab and may have different strengths depending on your workload. On Qubax, Gemini 3 Flash Preview starts at $0.013/1M input tokens versus DeepSeek V4 Flash's $0.021/1M — making Gemini 3 Flash Preview the more cost-effective option for high-volume workloads. Both are available on Qubax with crypto payments and OpenAI-compatible APIs, so you can try each and switch freely.
Can I use Gemini 3 Flash Preview for commercial projects?
Yes. Gemini 3 Flash Preview on Qubax can be used for commercial purposes. You own the outputs you generate. Qubax provides the API infrastructure — you bring your use case.
Why use Gemini 3 Flash Preview on Qubax?
95% cheaper
Providers compete on price — you get the cheapest healthy seller.
Pay with crypto
350+ coins (BTC, ETH, SOL, USDT, USDC). No card, no KYC.
OpenAI & Anthropic compatible
Drop-in base URL. Works with Cline, Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs.