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Gemini 3 Flash vs Gemma 4 31B

Compare Gemini 3 Flash and Gemma 4 31B side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Object Detection, Classification, Open Prompt, OCR, and Image Captioning.

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Gemini 3 Flash vs Gemma 4 31B Comparison Table

Evals updated July 10, 2026Pricing updated July 21, 2026

PropertyGemini 3 FlashGemma 4 31B
OrganizationGoogleGoogle
Categoryclosedopen
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateDec 2025Apr 2026
Context Window1.0M256K
Parameters31B
LicenseProprietaryApache 2.0
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.500$0.120
Output $/1M$3.00$0.370
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoDemo
ClassificationDemoDemo
Object DetectionDemoDemo
OCRDemoDemo
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemoDemo
Model Features
Multimodal Vision
Foundation Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks
Overall
77.2%
Not evaluated
Object Detection
39.3%
Counting
67.6%
Identification
93.8%
OCR
87.6%
Data Extraction
96.9%
Reasoning
78.3%
Avg cost / sample$0.0017
Avg speed / sample3.9s

Gemini 3 Flash vs Gemma 4 31B: Overview

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.

Gemma 4 31B

Gemma 4 31B is the largest dense model in Google's Gemma 4 family, built from the same research as Gemini 3 and released as open weights under the Apache 2.0 license. It supports a 256K token context window with text and image input, configurable thinking mode for step-by-step reasoning, and multilingual support across 140+ languages. The unquantized model fits on a single 80GB GPU.

For vision tasks, Gemma 4 31B supports image understanding with variable aspect ratios and resolutions, and can output structured bounding boxes for UI element detection, making it useful for document parsing and UI understanding. Compared to Gemma 3, it delivers stronger reasoning and multimodal performance. It is part of a four-size family alongside the 26B A4B MoE variant and two on-device models (E2B, E4B), with the 31B dense variant optimized for output quality and fine-tuning over inference speed.

Frequently Asked Questions

Gemma 4 31B has not yet been evaluated on Roboflow's current Vision Evals, so this comparison shows specs, licensing, and pricing rather than benchmark scores.

Gemini 3 Flash is released under Proprietary, while Gemma 4 31B uses Apache 2.0. Licensing often matters more than raw accuracy for commercial deployments, so check the terms against how you plan to ship.

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