• Gemini 3 Flash is now available in Gemini CLI Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mail Gemini 3 Flash is now available in Gemini CLI, supporting high-frequency workflows common to terminal-based work.Gemini 3 Flashachieves a SWE-bench Verified score of 78% for agentic coding, outperforming not only the 2.5 series, but also Gemini 3 Pro. • Gemini 3 Flash was built to be highly efficient, pushing the Pareto frontier of quality vs. • cost and speed and is available in preview at less than a quarter the cost of Gemini 3 Pro. • With two of our best models powering Gemini CLI, speed no longer has to mean compromising quality. • Start using Gemini 3 Flash with Gemini CLI Starting today,mostpaid tier customers of Gemini CLI have access to both Gemini 3 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash, including: All non-business customers of Google AI Pro or AI Ultra Users who have access using a paid API key through Google AI or Vertex Gemini Code Assist users that have beenenabled by their cloud adminfor preview models For free tier users: We’ve onboarded everyone who signed up to the previously available waitlist, so please check your email for details If you were not on our waitlist, we’re rolling out additional access gradually to ensure the experience remains fast and reliable, so stay tuned for more details, or view ourdocsto learn about your options for access now Get started by upgrading Gemini CLI version to the latest version (0.21.1): After you’ve confirmed your version is 0.21.1 or later, run/settings, then toggle the setting “Preview features"totrue. • Once you’ve enabled preview features, run/modelto select Gemini 3.

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  • Google has released Gemini 3 Flash for its Gemini CLI, adding a high‑frequency, terminal‑friendly model that outperforms both the 2.5 series and Gemini 3 Pro. The new model scores 78 % on the SWE‑bench agentic coding test, pushes the quality‑vs‑cost frontier, and is available in preview at less than a quarter of Gemini 3 Pro’s price. Paid‑tier CLI users now have access to both Pro and Flash, while free users can upgrade the CLI to version 0.21.1 and enable preview features to select Gemini 3 Flash. The update emphasizes faster, cheaper coding workflows without sacrificing reasoning or multimodal capabilities.

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