Gemini 3 Flash Preview

gemini-3-flash-preview

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Gemini 3 Flash Preview is a high-speed, high-value reasoning model designed for agentic workflows, multi-turn chat, and coding assistance. It delivers near-expert-level reasoning and tool use performance with much lower latency than larger Gemini variants, making it well-suited for interactive development, long-running agent loops, and collaborative coding tasks. Compared with Gemini 2.5 Flash, it offers broad quality improvements in reasoning, multimodal understanding, and reliability.

Context window1.0M

ProviderGemini

Released2026/02/23

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Pricing

The same model is available through multiple service channels — choose based on latency, reliability and cost.

Prices in $ / 1M tokens

To pick a channel, add a provider field to the request body, for example "provider": { "channel": "direct" }. Valid values are direct / stable / economical; omit it to use the default channel.

Direct

Direct upstream connection — best when you need native behavior and the full context window.

Input	Output	Cache read
0.50/M	3.00/M	0.05/M

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API

API integration

Model IDUse this value as the model in inference requests

gemini-3-flash-preview

API KeyBearer token used to authenticate inference requests

Manage API keys

Base URLOpenAI compatible · /chat/completions

https://api.haijingai.com/v2/

provider OptionalSelects a service channel; omit it and the system picks the default

"provider": { "channel": "direct" }

gemini-3-flash-preview usage examples

SeaWhale AI is compatible with the OpenAI API protocol, so you can call it with the OpenAI SDK or plain HTTP requests. Streaming is enabled by default.

cURL

curl https://api.haijingai.com/v2/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <API_KEY>" \
  -d '{
    "model": "gemini-3-flash-preview",
    "messages": [
      {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
      {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ],
    "provider": { "channel": "direct" },
    "stream": true
  }'
# provider is optional — remove this line to use the default channel

Python

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.haijingai.com/v2",
    api_key="<API_KEY>",
)

stream = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gemini-3-flash-preview",
    messages=[
        {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"},
    ],
    stream=True,
    # Optional: pick a service channel; omit to use the default
    extra_body={"provider": {"channel": "direct"}},
)

for chunk in stream:
    if chunk.choices[0].delta.content:
        print(chunk.choices[0].delta.content, end="", flush=True)

Node.js

import OpenAI from 'openai'

const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: 'https://api.haijingai.com/v2',
  apiKey: '<API_KEY>',
})

const stream = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: 'gemini-3-flash-preview',
  messages: [
    { role: 'system', content: 'You are a helpful assistant.' },
    { role: 'user', content: 'Hello!' },
  ],
  stream: true,
  // Optional: pick a service channel; omit to use the default
  // @ts-expect-error provider is a SeaWhale AI extension, not in the OpenAI SDK types
  provider: { channel: 'direct' },
})

for await (const chunk of stream) {
  process.stdout.write(chunk.choices[0]?.delta?.content ?? '')
}