Gemini 3 Flash is now available in Gemini CLI

Gemini 3 Flash is now available in Gemini CLI, bringing a high-efficiency AI model to terminal-based development workflows.

• •Achieves a SWE-bench Verified score of 78% for agentic coding, outperforming both the 2.5 series and Gemini 3 Pro
• •Available at less than a quarter the cost of Gemini 3 Pro, with 3x faster speed based on Artificial Analysis benchmarking
• •Accessible to most paid tier customers including Google AI Pro/Ultra users and Vertex API key holders
• •Supports large context windows, demonstrated by processing 1,000-comment pull request threads to identify single actionable changes
• •Gemini CLI's auto-routing intelligently reserves Gemini 3 Pro for complex reasoning while routing other tasks to Gemini 3 Flash