Gemini 3 Flash vs SAM 3
Gemini 3 Flash: 65.7% average across five Vision Evals tasks (#29 of 65 models). We have not run SAM 3 through Roboflow's Vision Evals, so there is no head-to-head score. Run both on your own image below.
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Gemini 3 Flash vs SAM 3 Comparison Table
Evals updated October 26, 2026Pricing updated November 8, 2026
| Property | Gemini 3 Flash | SAM 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Meta | |
| Category | closed | open |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Dec 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| Context Window | 1.0M | — |
| Parameters | Unknown | Unknown |
| License | Proprietary | Custom |
| Commercial use | commercial use per vendor terms | See license terms |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $0.500 | No published price |
| Output $/1M | $3.00 | No published price |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | Not listed |
| Chart Question Answering | Supported | Not listed |
| Classification | Demo | Not listed |
| Document Question Answering | Supported | Not listed |
| Image Tagging | Supported | Not listed |
| Instance Segmentation | Not listed | Supported |
| Multi-Label Classification | Supported | Not listed |
| OCR | Demo | Not listed |
| Open Vocabulary Object Detection | Not listed | Supported |
| Promptable Concept Segmentation | Not listed | Demo |
| Video Object Tracking | Not listed | Supported |
| Vision Language | Supported | Not listed |
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | Not listed |
| Zero Shot Segmentation | Not listed | Supported |
Both support 1 more task | ||
| Model Features | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | Supported | Not listed |
| Zero-shot Detection | Not listed | Supported |
Both support 2 more features | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | 65.7% | Not evaluated |
| Avg cost / sample | $0.0024 | – |
| Avg speed / sample | 5.83s | – |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection | 38.6% | – |
| Counting | 67.6% | – |
| Identification | 93.8% | – |
| OCR (low) | 63.9% | – |
| by category |
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| OCR (high) | 73.1% | – |
| by category |
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| Reasoning (low) | 64.9% | – |
| Reasoning (high) | 74.2% | – |
Gemini 3 Flash vs SAM 3: 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.
Released on November 19th, 2025, Segment Anything 3 (SAM 3) is a zero-shot image segmentation model that “detects, segments, and tracks objects in images and videos based on concept prompts.” This model was developed by Meta as the third model in the Segment Anything series.
Unlike its previous SAM models (Segment Anything and Segment Anything 2), you can provide SAM 3 with the prompt “shipping container” and it will generate precise segmentation masks for all shipping containers in an image. SAM 3 generates segmentation masks that correspond to the location of the objects found with a text prompt.
Frequently Asked Questions
Gemini 3 Flash is released under Proprietary, while SAM 3 uses Custom. In practice: Gemini 3 Flash: commercial use per vendor terms. Licensing often matters more than raw accuracy for commercial deployments, so check the terms against how you plan to ship.
Yes. The comparison demo on this page runs both models on the same image side by side for object detection in the free Roboflow Playground. You can try it instantly, and a free account unlocks unlimited runs.
