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Gemini 3 Pro Preview

Retired

A Google model with a 1M-token context window, image input and tool calling. Released on the Gemini API November 18, 2025, now retired.

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gemini-3-pro-preview
Updated Sep 23, 2026

Capabilities & limits

Context window
1M
Maximum output
64K
Image input
Supported
Tool calling
Supported
Structured output
Supported

Pricing

USD / 1M tokens
Input
No longer sold
Output
No longer sold

No longer sold on the Gemini API.

Price history
Mar 9, 2026

Input No longer sold per million tokens

Mar 9, 2026

Output No longer sold per million tokens

Technical details

Parameters
Not published
Active parameters
Not published
Architecture
Sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) transformer with native multimodal support for text, vision, and audio inputs
Training / knowledge cutoff
January 2025
Input modalities
Text, image, video, audio, PDF
Output modalities
Text

Release & lifecycle

First available
Nov 18, 2025
retired
Mar 9, 2026

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