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Best Gemini 3 Flash Preview alternatives

Users may seek alternatives to Gemini 3 Flash Preview because of its preview status instability, shallower reasoning depth, and lack of native tool-use support. This list covers seven other multimodal models along with their intelligence scores, speeds, prices, contexts, and key trade-offs.

Multimodal model with 1M-token context for complex text and image tasks.

Intelligence: 43.9Output speed: 135 t/sOutput price: $2.50/1MContext: 1000K

OpenAI's multimodal model for large-scale text and image tasks.

Intelligence: 44.6Output speed: 150 t/sOutput price: $10.00/1MContext: 400K

Google's fast multimodal model for efficient text, image, and video tasks.

Intelligence: 33.5Output speed: 310 t/sOutput price: $1.50/1MContext: 1049K

Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent supports an extremely large 2M context at $6 per 1M tokens with multi-agent coordination for text, images, and files but may add latency from agent setups.

Output price: $6.00/1MContext: 2000KType: ProprietaryProvider: xAI

OpenAI's closed multimodal model for large-scale text and image tasks.

Intelligence: 43.1Output speed: 178 t/sOutput price: $10.00/1MContext: 400K

OpenAI's multimodal model for large-scale text, image and file tasks.

Output price: $30.00/1MContext: 400KType: ProprietaryProvider: OpenAI

Multimodal model handling images, text, and files over vast contexts.

Output price: $168.00/1MContext: 400KType: ProprietaryProvider: OpenAI

OpenAI's multimodal model for large-scale image, text, and file processing.

Intelligence: 27.4Output speed: 116 t/sOutput price: $10.00/1MContext: 400K

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GPT-5.2 is the strongest alternative by intelligence_index at 46.6 while matching multimodal capabilities.