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Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Gemini 3 Flash

Compare Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Object Detection, Open Prompt, Classification, OCR, and Image Captioning.

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Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Gemini 3 Flash on Vision Evals

Gemini 3 Flash scores higher on 4 of the six Vision Evals tasks.

The widest gap is Reasoning, where Gemini 3 Flash leads 78.3% to 60.9%.

Overall, Gemini 2.5 Pro averages 67.9% (#9 of 16) against 77.2% (#4 of 16) for Gemini 3 Flash.

Gemini 3 Flash is both cheaper ($0.0017 vs $0.0036 per sample) and faster (3.9s vs 4.7s per sample).

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Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Gemini 3 Flash Comparison Table

Evals updated July 10, 2026Pricing updated July 20, 2026

PropertyGemini 2.5 ProGemini 3 Flash
OrganizationGoogleGoogle
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateJun 2025Dec 2025
Context Window1.0M1.0M
Parameters
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$1.25$0.500
Output $/1M$10.00$3.00
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoDemo
ClassificationDemoDemo
Object DetectionDemoDemo
OCRDemoDemo
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemoDemo
Model Features
Foundation Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Multimodal Vision
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks
Overall
67.9%
77.2%
Object Detection
26.4%
39.3%
Counting
52.7%
67.6%
Identification
93.8%
93.8%
OCR
88.8%
87.6%
Data Extraction
84.5%
96.9%
Reasoning
60.9%
78.3%
Avg cost / sample$0.0036$0.0017
Avg speed / sample4.7s3.9s

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Gemini 3 Flash: Overview

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Gemini 2.5 Pro, released on June 17, 2025, is Google DeepMind’s most capable model in the Gemini 2.5 family, optimized for deep reasoning, coding, and complex multimodal tasks. It accepts text, images, audio, video, and PDFs as input and outputs text. The model supports 1 million input tokens with an output capacity of up to 65K tokens, enabling large-scale comprehension of datasets, codebases, and technical documents. Its training knowledge extends to January 2025.

Pro outperforms earlier Gemini 2.0 models across benchmarks, including agentic coding tasks where it achieved ~63.8% on SWE-Bench Verified. It supports structured outputs, function calling, code execution, search grounding, and URL context, making it well-suited for enterprise, STEM, and developer workflows. However, it does not currently support image or audio generation in its stable release, and its higher computational cost and latency make it less efficient than Flash or Flash-Lite. It is available via the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Vertex AI.

Gemini 3 Flash

Gemini 3 Flash is a proprietary multimodal large language model developed by Google through Google DeepMind, designed to deliver fast, cost-efficient reasoning across real-time products and developer workflows. Released in December 2025, it is the Flash-tier variant of the Gemini 3 family, balancing low latency with reasoning quality approaching Pro models.

The model supports text, images, audio, and video, with an exceptionally large context window of roughly one million input tokens and outputs up to ~65k tokens. It emphasizes rapid responses for coding, summarization, analysis, and agentic tasks, and exposes configurable “thinking levels” via API to trade speed for deeper reasoning. Today, Gemini 3 Flash positions itself as a high-throughput, production-ready model, serving as the default in the Gemini app and Google Search’s AI Mode, optimized for scalable, interactive AI applications.