UI-TARS 7B vs Gemini 3 Flash Preview
UI-TARS 7B costs 15.0x less per output token than Gemini 3 Flash Preview ($0.20 vs $3.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; no benchmark has tested both models yet.
- Coding
- No data
- Overall
- No data
- Output $/M
- $0.20
- Coding
- 43.7
- Overall
- 55.0
- Output $/M
- $3.00
UI-TARS 7B or Gemini 3 Flash Preview: which to pick
Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview has a coding score, 43.7 on the Vibe Coding Index; UI-TARS 7B has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick UI-TARS 7B for output tokens 15.0x cheaper ($0.20 vs $3.00 per million).
No benchmark has tested both yet. UI-TARS 7B has results on Kagi LLM Benchmark; Gemini 3 Flash Preview on SWE-bench Verified, LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) and SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI). Compare them on price and context instead.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview has a AA Intelligence Index result, 26.3.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview has a GPQA Diamond result, 87.9%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview has a AIME result, 95.6%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview has a MMLU Pro result, 88.6%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview has a Design Arena: websites result, 1196.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Gemini 3 Flash Preview takes 1.05M tokens against 128K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
UI-TARS 7B
UI-TARS 7B $0.0002, Gemini 3 Flash Preview $0.0020 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview has the number, $0.37.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- UI-TARS 7B not benchmarked, Gemini 3 Flash Preview 43.7 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- None yet: no category has been tested on both models.
- Widest single gap
- None yet: no benchmark has tested both models.
- Output price
- UI-TARS 7B $0.20 against Gemini 3 Flash Preview $3.00 per million output tokens, 15.0x apart.
- Context window
- UI-TARS 7B takes 128K tokens, Gemini 3 Flash Preview 1.05M.
Benchmark by benchmark
Every board either model has a result on, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale. Only one model is measured on each, so no row names a leader.
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index14 boards measured
| Benchmark | UI-TARS 7B | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 75.8% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 85.6% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 75.0% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 20.2% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 6.4% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 0.0% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 53.9% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 90.8% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 38.6% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Terminal-Bench | Not measured | 64.3% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| GSO-Bench | Not measured | 9.8% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| WeirdML | Not measured | 61.6% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 1367.2 | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 12.7% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 29 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index1 board measured
| Benchmark | UI-TARS 7B | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | Not measured | 26.3 | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index15 boards measured
| Benchmark | UI-TARS 7B | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | Not measured | 1111 | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | Not measured | 1063 | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | Not measured | 1090 | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | Not measured | 1051 | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | Not measured | 1161 | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | Not measured | 1036 | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 42.5% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 11.8% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 18.3% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 26.0% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 80.4% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| BALROG | Not measured | 48.1% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | Not measured | 49.8% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | Not measured | $3,635 | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| MCP Atlas | Not measured | 62.0% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 27 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12 boards measured
| Benchmark | UI-TARS 7B | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 87.9% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | Not measured | 87.6% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 89.8% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 36.6% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | Not measured | 89.4% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| ARC-AGI | Not measured | 84.7% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not measured | 33.6% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| SimpleBench | Not measured | 61.1% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Chess puzzles | Not measured | 39.0% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 26.0% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| VPCT | Not measured | 72.6% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 20.7% | Not measured | Only UI-TARS 7B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards measured
| Benchmark | UI-TARS 7B | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 95.6% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | Not measured | 93.3% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| AA Math Index | Not measured | 97.0 | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 97.0% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | Not measured | 95.6% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 51.2% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | Not measured | 17.1% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| ProofBench | Not measured | 15.0% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12 boards measured
| Benchmark | UI-TARS 7B | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 88.6% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 86.9% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | Not measured | 55.8% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 66.4% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 73.9% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 68.7% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | Not measured | 95.8% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 55.9% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 89.0% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 66.8% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| GeoBench | Not measured | 88.0% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | Not measured | 63.4% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index4 boards measured
| Benchmark | UI-TARS 7B | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1196 | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1165 | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1183 | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1189 | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards measured
| Benchmark | UI-TARS 7B | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 51.8% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 69.9% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | Not measured | 52.2% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| IFBench | Not measured | 78.0% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | Not measured | 78.0% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| DTBench | Not measured | 89.1% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 43.1% | Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 41 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
UI-TARS 7B costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
UI-TARS 7B costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
UI-TARS 7B costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | ByteDance UI-TARS 7B | Google Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | ByteDance | |
| Weights | Open weights | No public weights listed |
| Released | July 22, 2025 | December 17, 2025 |
| Context window | 128K | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.10 | $0.50 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.20 | $3.00 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 43.7 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $0.37 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is UI-TARS 7B better than Gemini 3 Flash Preview for coding?
Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview has a coding score, 43.7 on the Vibe Coding Index; UI-TARS 7B has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick UI-TARS 7B for output tokens 15.0x cheaper ($0.20 vs $3.00 per million).
Which is cheaper, UI-TARS 7B or Gemini 3 Flash Preview?
UI-TARS 7B costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens; Gemini 3 Flash Preview costs $0.50 and $3.00. Cost per solved task is known for Gemini 3 Flash Preview only.
Which has the bigger context window, UI-TARS 7B or Gemini 3 Flash Preview?
Gemini 3 Flash Preview, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.
Has any benchmark tested both UI-TARS 7B and Gemini 3 Flash Preview?
No benchmark has tested both yet. UI-TARS 7B has results on Kagi LLM Benchmark; Gemini 3 Flash Preview on SWE-bench Verified, LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) and SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI). Compare them on price and context instead. Data as of October 22, 2026.