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Gemini 3 Flash vs O4-Mini

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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Gemini 3 Flash
google/gemini-3-flash
O4-Mini
openai/o4-mini
Provider
Google
OpenAI
Family
Gemini 3
o-series
Modality
text
text
Context window
1,000,000 tok
200,000 tok
Max output
8,192 tok
100,000 tok
Released
2026-05-22
2026-05-22
License
Proprietary
Open-weight
Input price
$0.500 /1M
$1.10 /1M
Output price
$3.00 /1M
$4.40 /1M
Cache read
$0.050 /1M
Tools
yes
yes
Streaming
yes
yes
Vision
yes
yes
JSON mode
yes
yes
Reasoning
yes
Prompt caching
yes
Batch API
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Gemini 3 Flash
google/gemini-3-flash
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Gemini 3 Flash is Google's fast multimodal model with frontier intelligence, superior search, and grounding capabilities.

Strengths
  • Near-free per token
  • Multi-modal native
  • 1M context
Use cases
High-volume ingestionCheap visionThrowaway drafts
O4-Mini
openai/o4-mini
Full spec →

OpenAI's fast, lightweight reasoning model optimized for multi-step problem solving at lower cost.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows

Benchmarks

Gemini 3 Flash
O4-Mini
MMLU
82.3

Source: each provider's published benchmarks. Higher is better. Run an eval to compare on your own data.

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SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Gemini 3 Flash
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="google/gemini-3-flash",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# O4-Mini
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openai/o4-mini",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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