1. State-of-the-art reasoning performance

• #1 on LMArena human preference leaderboard.
• Excels at advanced reasoning benchmarks like GPQA and AIME 2025.
• Achieves 18.8% on Humanity's Last Exam (no tools), representing frontier human-level reasoning.

2. New “thinking model” architecture

• Built with explicit reasoning steps internally before responding.
• Handles complex, multi-stage logic with higher accuracy and fewer hallucinations.

3. Elite science and mathematics capabilities

• Leads in math and science tasks across industry benchmarks.
• High performance without costly inference tricks like majority voting.

4. Exceptional coding abilities

• Major leap over Gemini 2.0 in coding performance.
• 63.8% on SWE-Bench Verified with custom agent setup.
• Strong at code transformation, debugging, and building agentic apps.
• Capable of generating full applications (e.g., a playable video game) from a single-line prompt.

5. Massive multimodal context

• Ships with a 1,000,000 token window (2M coming soon).
• Handles entire documents, datasets, video sequences, audio files, and large codebases.
• Maintains strong performance even at extreme context lengths.

6. Native multimodality across all inputs

• Understands and reasons over text, images, audio, video, and code.
• Designed for real-world, multi-source problem-solving and agent workflows.

7. Consistent high-quality outputs

• Improved post-training results in more accurate, coherent, and stylistically strong responses.
• Higher reliability across complex workloads.

8. Early availability for developers

• Available today in Google AI Studio for experimentation.
• Coming soon to Vertex AI with higher rate limits and production-ready access.

1. Extremely fast and cost-efficient

• Designed for ultra-low latency inference.
• Handles high-throughput real-time applications and large-scale pipelines.

2. Strong multimodal capabilities

• Accepts text, images, audio, video, and PDFs.
• Efficient cross-modal understanding suitable for classification, extraction, and captioning.

3. Excellent for long-context tasks

• Supports up to 1M tokens, enabling analysis of long documents, transcripts, and entire codebases.
• Performs well on long-context translation and summarization.

4. Optimized for production workloads

• Low operational cost and fast inference make it ideal for enterprise automation.
• Great for chatbots, customer support systems, and background agent tasks.

5. High throughput with scalable rate limits

• Flash variants support extremely high RPM for high-traffic environments.

6. Reliable performance on everyday tasks

• Good at chat, rewriting, transcription, extraction, and structured reasoning.
• More efficient than Pro for tasks that don't require deep reasoning.

7. Ideal for multimodal high-volume apps

• Strong performance on captioning, OCR-style extraction, audio transcription, and video understanding.

8. Designed for developer workflows

• Supports function calling, structured output, and integration with the Gemini API and Vertex AI.