Gemini 3 Flash vs Muse Ember
Muse Ember and Gemini 3 Flash score 76.6% vs 65.7% averaged across five Vision Evals tasks (#16 and #31 of 67 models), so Muse Ember leads overall.
- Muse Ember wins 4 of the 5 tasks, with its widest lead on object detection (63.8% vs 38.6%).
- Muse Ember is about a third of the cost: $0.0009 vs $0.0024 overall average cost per sample.
Roboflow Vision Evals. Full breakdown below.
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Gemini 3 Flash vs Muse Ember on Vision Evals
Roboflow Vision Evals. Full breakdown below.
Gemini 3 Flash vs Muse Ember Comparison Table
Evals updated November 10, 2026Pricing updated November 10, 2026
| Property | Gemini 3 Flash | Muse Ember |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Meta | |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Dec 2025 | Nov 2026 |
| Context Window | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Parameters | Unknown | Unknown |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Commercial use | commercial use per vendor terms | commercial use per vendor terms |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $0.500 | $0.100 |
| Output $/1M | $3.00 | $0.500 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | Supported |
| Classification | Demo | Supported |
| Object Detection | Demo | Supported |
| OCR | Demo | Supported |
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | Supported |
| Model Features | ||
Both support 3 more features | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | 65.7% | 76.6% |
| Avg cost / sample | $0.0024 | $0.0009 |
| Avg speed / sample | 5.83s | 6.08s |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection (low) | 38.6% | 63.8% ±0.5, Mean of 3 runs, range 63.3 to 64.3 |
| Object Detection (high) | – | 64.0% ±0.5, Mean of 3 runs, range 63.5 to 64.5 |
| Counting (low) | 67.6% | 79.7% ±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.4 to 81.1 |
| Counting (high) | – | 79.3% ±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.4 to 79.7 |
| Identification (low) | 93.8% | 91.7% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.6 to 93.8 |
| Identification (high) | – | 90.6% ±3.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.5 to 93.8 |
| OCR (low) | 63.9% | 69.5% |
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| OCR (high) | 73.1% | 70.5% |
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| Reasoning (low) | 64.9% | 78.2% ±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 76.8 to 79.5 |
| Reasoning (high) | 74.2% | 81.9% ±1.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 80.1 to 83.4 |
Gemini 3 Flash vs Muse Ember: Overview
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.
Muse Ember is a proprietary multimodal reasoning model from Meta, released on November 9, 2026. It accepts text, images, video, audio, and PDF documents and returns text. The Meta Model API serves it as muse-ember-1.0, with a 1,048,576-token context window and up to 524,288 output tokens. Reasoning effort is adjustable from minimal to max.
Meta positions Ember for repeated tasks within larger agent workflows: tool calls, routing, coding subtasks, and processing collections of images and documents. It can caption or sort photos and extract fields from records while a larger Muse model handles planning. Meta recommends Spark or Wonder for harder single-shot coding and knowledge-heavy problems. Ember is available as a hosted model; its weights are not publicly released.
Frequently Asked Questions
On Roboflow's Vision Evals, Muse Ember performed better. It scores higher on 4 of the five vision tasks and averages 76.6% (#16 of 67) against 65.7% (#31 of 67) for Gemini 3 Flash. These scores measure vision capabilities only; either model may perform differently on work outside this benchmark's tasks.
No. On the Vision Evals Object Detection benchmark at low effort, Muse Ember leads with 63.8% against 38.6%. This is the widest gap between the two models across the benchmark's tasks.
Muse Ember is cheaper to run. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals task mix it averaged $0.0009 per sample against $0.0024. Gemini 3 Flash is priced at $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $3.00 per 1M output; Muse Ember is priced at $0.10 per 1M input tokens and $0.50 per 1M output. Actual costs depend on your image sizes, prompts, and output length.
Gemini 3 Flash is faster. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals it averaged 5.8s per inference against 6.1s. Latency varies with image size, prompt length, and provider load, so treat these as relative rather than guaranteed figures.