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Gemini 3 Flash vs Grok 4

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Gemini 3 Flash vs Grok 4 Comparison Table

Evals updated August 14, 2026Pricing updated August 14, 2026

PropertyGemini 3 FlashGrok 4
OrganizationGoogleSpaceXAI
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateDec 2025Jul 2025
Context Window1.0M256K
Parameters
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.500
Output $/1M$3.00
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoDemo
Chart Question Answering
ClassificationDemo
Document Question Answering
Image Tagging
Multi-Label Classification
Object DetectionDemo
OCRDemoDemo
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemoDemo
Model Features
Foundation Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Multimodal Vision
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
Overall
74.9%
Not evaluated
Avg cost / sample$0.0021
Avg speed / sample4.10s
By task
Object Detection
38.6%
$0.0031
Counting
67.6%
$0.0012
Identification
93.8%
$0.0009
OCR
87.6%
$0.0024
Data Extraction
96.9%
$0.0008
Reasoning (low)
64.9%
$0.0020
Reasoning (high)
74.2%
$0.0040

Gemini 3 Flash vs Grok 4: 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.

Grok 4

Grok 4, released by xAI on July 9, 2025, is the fourth-generation model in the Grok family and the most advanced to date. It is multimodal, supporting text, vision, tool use, and real-time web search, with a reported 256,000-token context window for long-form reasoning and document analysis. Its training data extends through November 2024, making it the most up-to-date Grok model at launch.

The lineup includes Grok 4 Generalist for broad tasks, Grok 4 Heavy for higher-capacity reasoning, and Grok 4 Code optimized for programming and debugging. A notable feature is its always-on “Think” mode, designed for deeper multi-step reasoning. While xAI has not disclosed parameter counts, Grok 4 is positioned to compete with frontier models like GPT-5 and Claude 4, balancing real-time knowledge via web integration with structured tool use. It is best suited for coding, complex reasoning, and multimodal AI assistants.

Frequently Asked Questions

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

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