{
  "data": {
    "a": {
      "slug": "gemini-api",
      "name": "Gemini Developer API",
      "vendor": "Google",
      "vendorUrl": "https://ai.google.dev",
      "kind": "model",
      "category": "inference",
      "summary": "Google's API for Gemini models, including content generation and agent interactions.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-api",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-api.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-api.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemini-api.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai",
      "license": "Apache-2.0 (SDKs)",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "google-genai"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@google/genai"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "`x-goog-api-key` header with a key from AI Studio. A Google account is needed to make one.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free tier on 3.8 Flash and Flash-Lite, not on 3.1 Pro preview, and free-tier content is used to improve Google products. 3.1 Pro preview costs $2/$12 per million tokens, $4/$18 over 200K. 3.8 Flash is $0.75/$3.75 until 2026-12-31, then $1.50/$7.50. Cached input 0.1x. Nano Banana 2.1 (`gemini-nano-banana-2.1`, images) is paid tier only at $1.50 input and $30 per million image output tokens, about $0.034 a 1K image, $0.050 at 2K and $0.113 at 4K, half that in batch. Search grounding 5,000 free a month, then $14 per 1,000. Batch half price (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "from $0.25 / 1M in",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No machine payment. The free tier needs a Google account and paid use needs billing on a Cloud project.",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 3992,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-09-26"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs",
      "rateLimitsUrl": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits",
      "llmsTxt": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "inference.llm"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "official",
        "hosted",
        "model",
        "free-tier",
        "no-card",
        "llms-txt"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-08",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 65.5,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 348,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1133,
        "categoryRank": 11,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 90,
          "maintenance": 83,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 40,
          "schema": 85,
          "security": 60,
          "transparency": 72
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-12"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Free tier on 3.8 Flash and Flash-Lite with no billing account. Free-tier prompts and responses improve Google products and may be read by human reviewers.",
        "bestFor": "Cheap, long-context Flash calls for prototypes, public data and agents that need to start without a card.",
        "strengths": [
          "Free tier on 3.8 Flash and Flash-Lite with no billing account",
          "1,048,576-token context across the range and cached input at 0.1x",
          "Backoff guidance with jitter, and the Python SDK retries transient errors four times",
          "Keys can be restricted to the Gemini API and by IP or origin, and unrestricted keys are rejected from 28 May 2026",
          "A keyless Discovery document types the v1beta GenerateContent surface, and function calling can be forced to named tools"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Free-tier prompts and responses improve Google products and may be read by human reviewers",
          "Per-model rate limits are only visible inside AI Studio",
          "No SLA and no zero-retention route found for the Developer API",
          "The only Pro model, `gemini-3.1-pro-preview`, is a preview and isn't on the free tier",
          "Shutdown dates are 'earliest possible' with no stated minimum notice"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Never send customer data through a free-tier key. Link billing first",
          "Don't request Gemini 4 Argon here. It has no Developer API model ID as of 5 October 2026",
          "Back off exponentially on 429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED and 503, and don't retry 400, 402 or 403",
          "Stop sending temperature, top_p and top_k. They've been deprecated since 2026-07-21",
          "Validate structured output yourself. The docs don't promise schema-constrained decoding"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 3.5,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 65.5
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 90,
          "maintenance": 83,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 40,
          "schema": 85,
          "security": 60,
          "transparency": 55
        },
        "provenanceScore": 89
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "pip install google-genai   # or: npm i @google/genai",
        "http": "curl \"https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/gemini-3.8-flash:generateContent\" \\\n  -H \"x-goog-api-key: $GEMINI_API_KEY\" -H \"content-type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"contents\":[{\"parts\":[{\"text\":\"hello\"}]}]}'"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/gemini-api"
      },
      "sameCompany": [
        "gemini-embedding",
        "vertex-ai-tuning",
        "google-model-armor",
        "google-imagen",
        "google-veo",
        "google-lyria",
        "google-speech-to-text",
        "gemini-live",
        "google-adk",
        "google-secret-manager",
        "google-cloud-document-ai",
        "google-weather-api",
        "chrome-devtools-mcp",
        "google-maps-platform",
        "google-cloud-translation",
        "google-calendar-api",
        "firebase-cloud-messaging",
        "google-drive-api",
        "gemini-enterprise",
        "gemini-cli",
        "google-search-console",
        "google-ads-api",
        "google-forms",
        "google-sheets-api",
        "gmail-api",
        "google-people-api"
      ],
      "area": "models",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Search grounding over 5,000 a month",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 14
        },
        {
          "item": "Nano Banana 2.1 image, 1K",
          "unit": "image",
          "usd": 0.0336,
          "note": "1,120 output tokens at $30 per million. Paid tier only, half price in batch"
        },
        {
          "item": "Nano Banana 2.1 image, 2K",
          "unit": "image",
          "usd": 0.0504,
          "note": "1,680 output tokens"
        },
        {
          "item": "Nano Banana 2.1 image, 4K",
          "unit": "image",
          "usd": 0.113,
          "note": "3,780 output tokens"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Google LLC",
        "domain": "google.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1997-09-15",
        "domainNote": "The endpoint is on googleapis.com, Google's API domain. google.com was registered in 1997.",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms",
        "privacy": "https://policies.google.com/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://aistudio.google.com/status",
        "changelog": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-10-05",
        "score": 89
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-api.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "gemini-api",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:40.955588014Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 36,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 37,
          "p95ms24h": 87,
          "samples24h": 253,
          "samples30d": 5389,
          "days": [
            {
              "date": "2026-09-27",
              "probes": 132,
              "ok": 132
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-09-28",
              "probes": 285,
              "ok": 285
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-09-29",
              "probes": 286,
              "ok": 286
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-09-30",
              "probes": 286,
              "ok": 286
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 276,
              "ok": 276
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-05",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-06",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-07",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-08",
              "probes": 268,
              "ok": 268
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-09",
              "probes": 250,
              "ok": 250
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-10",
              "probes": 247,
              "ok": 247
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-11",
              "probes": 247,
              "ok": 247
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-12",
              "probes": 247,
              "ok": 247
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-13",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-14",
              "probes": 249,
              "ok": 249
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-15",
              "probes": 253,
              "ok": 253
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-16",
              "probes": 252,
              "ok": 252
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-17",
              "probes": 253,
              "ok": 253
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-18",
              "probes": 3,
              "ok": 3
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://aistudio.google.com/status",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:51:09.89524328Z"
        },
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "googleapis/python-genai",
            "version": "v2.31.0",
            "released": "2026-10-14",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-17T01:49:36.447446741Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "@google/genai",
            "version": "2.30.0",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-17T01:49:35.587438795Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "pypi",
            "name": "google-genai",
            "version": "2.31.0",
            "released": "2026-10-14",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-17T01:49:35.45850047Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 4025,
        "npmWeekly": 24718975,
        "pypiWeekly": 35980863,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://google.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "valid",
          "expires": "2030-04-01T00:00:00z",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T15:52:30.843669294Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T14:22:12.46599822Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "google.com",
          "registered": "1997-09-15",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/google.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:17:33.092177011Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog",
            "kind": "deprecations",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:55:54.624834637Z",
            "changedAt": "2026-10-14T20:34:48.484549574Z",
            "fingerprint": "a1bc8bfe3e82"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations",
            "kind": "deprecations",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:55:56.907976738Z",
            "changedAt": "2026-10-13T20:09:56.830469907Z",
            "fingerprint": "14b7bf413440"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing",
            "kind": "deprecations",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:55:58.878192026Z",
            "changedAt": "2026-10-17T22:44:38.536789775Z",
            "fingerprint": "3cb899daba4f"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:56:01.073439697Z",
            "changedAt": "2026-10-13T20:10:00.885271169Z",
            "fingerprint": "2032bfe2f5c5"
          }
        ],
        "models": {
          "gemini-3.1-flash-lite": {
            "openrouterId": "google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite",
            "tools": true,
            "structuredOutputs": true,
            "jsonMode": true,
            "reasoning": true,
            "input": [
              "audio",
              "file",
              "image",
              "text",
              "video"
            ],
            "promptCaching": true,
            "contextTokens": 1048576,
            "maxOutput": 65536,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:59:30.229550312Z"
          },
          "gemini-3.1-pro-preview": {
            "openrouterId": "google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview",
            "tools": true,
            "structuredOutputs": true,
            "jsonMode": true,
            "reasoning": true,
            "input": [
              "audio",
              "file",
              "image",
              "text",
              "video"
            ],
            "promptCaching": true,
            "contextTokens": 1048576,
            "maxOutput": 65536,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:59:30.229550312Z"
          },
          "gemini-3.5-flash-lite": {
            "openrouterId": "google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite",
            "tools": true,
            "structuredOutputs": true,
            "jsonMode": true,
            "reasoning": true,
            "input": [
              "audio",
              "file",
              "image",
              "text",
              "video"
            ],
            "promptCaching": true,
            "contextTokens": 1048576,
            "maxOutput": 65536,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:59:30.229550312Z"
          },
          "gemini-3.8-flash": {
            "openrouterId": "google/gemini-3.8-flash",
            "tools": true,
            "structuredOutputs": true,
            "jsonMode": true,
            "reasoning": true,
            "input": [
              "audio",
              "file",
              "image",
              "text",
              "video"
            ],
            "promptCaching": true,
            "contextTokens": 1048576,
            "maxOutput": 65536,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:59:30.229550312Z"
          }
        },
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:40.955588014Z"
      }
    },
    "answer": "Gemini Developer API scores 65.5 (B) on agent readiness against Jais 3's 51.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Jais 3 leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "jais-3",
      "name": "Jais 3",
      "vendor": "Institute of Foundation Models (MBZUAI) and Inception42",
      "vendorUrl": "https://ifm.ai/blog/jais3/",
      "kind": "model",
      "category": "inference",
      "summary": "Jais 3 is an open-weight family of Arabic and English reasoning models from MBZUAI's Institute of Foundation Models and Inception42, from 0.9B to 375B parameters with up to 512K tokens of context, released under Apache-2.0 for self-hosting.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jais-3",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jais-3.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jais-3.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jais-3.json",
      "repo": "https://huggingface.co/inception42/Jais-3-375B-A23B",
      "license": "Apache-2.0, declared in the metadata of every model card read. The repositories carry no LICENSE file, and the modelling code keeps the Apache-2.0 header of the Qwen3-MoE code it was generated from",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "none",
      "authNotes": "No account or key. The inception42 and IFM repositories on Hugging Face are not gated and download anonymously. A local server has whatever authentication the owner adds, such as vLLM's `--api-key`. The cards' examples call the local server with `api_key=\"EMPTY\"`.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free to download and run under Apache-2.0, with the owner's GPUs as the cost. No hosted endpoint from IFM or Inception42 was found, OpenRouter lists no Jais model, and Hugging Face shows no inference provider for the main repositories (checked 2026-10-17).",
      "priceSummary": "Free",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402. Jais 3 is a set of weights the owner serves, with no payment route and no hosted API from the makers found (checked 2026-10-17).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-17"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/inception42/Jais-3-375B-A23B",
      "capabilities": [
        "inference.llm",
        "inference.open-weights",
        "inference.local"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "model",
        "open-weights",
        "self-hosted",
        "local",
        "free",
        "no-card",
        "apache-2.0",
        "openai-compatible",
        "gpu",
        "apple-silicon",
        "mlx",
        "new"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-15",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 51.7,
        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 839,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1133,
        "categoryRank": 21,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 65,
          "maintenance": 62,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 48,
          "schema": 54,
          "security": 31,
          "transparency": 50
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-17"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Jais 3 runs on the owner's hardware through OpenAI-compatible servers in vLLM and SGLang, with tool calls, three reasoning levels and a 512K context, from a 2.2 GB 0.9B model to a 758 GB 375B one. The weights download without sign-up under Apache-2.0, but every launch command trusts remote code, and no technical report or security contact is published.",
        "bestFor": "An agent or team that needs Arabic and English reasoning and tool use on its own hardware, from a laptop-sized 0.9B to a cluster-sized 375B, under Apache-2.0.",
        "strengths": [
          "Six checkpoints from 0.9B (2.2 GB) to 375B-A23B (758 GB), with FP8, GGUF and MLX builds from IFM",
          "Apache-2.0 on every card read, ungated downloads, and the CPT, Cooldown, SFT and FTPO training checkpoints published as branches",
          "With the `k2_horizon` parsers, reasoning returns in `reasoning_content` and tool calls as `tool_calls`, in JSON, XML or typed XML formats",
          "Launch recipes in the vLLM and SGLang projects' own docs, and K2 Horizon support merged into llama.cpp's master branch",
          "The chat template validates tool schemas and rejects unknown options with named errors, such as an unsupported `reasoning_effort`"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Every documented vLLM, SGLang, Transformers and MLX command passes `--trust-remote-code`, so the repository's Python runs on the host",
          "The 375B-A23B reference deployment is 16 H100 GPUs across two nodes, or one 8-GPU H200 node",
          "The technical report and code repository are marked 'coming soon', and IFM's own blog and press release sit behind a bot check",
          "No LICENSE file in the repositories, no changelog, no deprecation policy and no security contact or security.txt found",
          "Released on 15 October 2026, with template fixes on 14 and 15 October, and mlx-lm doesn't yet parse its reasoning or tool calls"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Start vLLM or SGLang with `--reasoning-parser k2_horizon`, and add `--tool-call-parser k2_horizon` (vLLM also `--enable-auto-tool-choice`) for tools, or tool calls come back as raw text",
          "Pass `reasoning_effort` (`high`, `medium` or `low`) and `tool_call_format` inside `chat_template_kwargs`. Other values return a template error",
          "Send each earlier assistant turn back with `reasoning_content` as a string, even an empty one. A missing or null thinking field makes the template raise an error",
          "Send your own system message, or set `default_system_prompt` to an empty string. Without one the template inserts an identity prompt naming IFM, Inception42 and Cerebras",
          "Budget at least 32,768 output tokens at `high` effort, which the cards recommend for every request"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 4,
        "avgRating": 2.5,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "D",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 51.7
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 65,
          "maintenance": 62,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 48,
          "schema": 54,
          "security": 31,
          "transparency": 51
        },
        "provenanceScore": 49
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "vllm serve inception42/Jais-3-32B \\\n  --trust-remote-code \\\n  --dtype bfloat16 \\\n  --tensor-parallel-size 2 \\\n  --reasoning-parser k2_horizon \\\n  --enable-auto-tool-choice \\\n  --tool-call-parser k2_horizon",
        "http": "curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \\\n  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n  -d '{\n    \"model\": \"inception42/Jais-3-32B\",\n    \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Summarise this contract in Arabic.\"}],\n    \"max_tokens\": 32768,\n    \"chat_template_kwargs\": {\"reasoning_effort\": \"high\"}\n  }'"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/jais-3"
      },
      "area": "models",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (Institute of Foundation Models), with Inception42 (a G42 company)",
        "domain": "ifm.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2022-09-06",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-17",
        "notes": [
          "The chat template's default system prompt names the Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) at MBZUAI, with Inception42 (a G42 company) and Cerebras, and gives MBZUAI's Arabic name, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence. The citation names the IFM, Inception42 and Cerebras teams. No registered company name for Inception42 was read first-hand.",
          "RDAP gives a registration date of 6 September 2022 for ifm.ai. The weights are on huggingface.co under the inception42 and IFM organisations.",
          "The licence is Apache-2.0 in each card's metadata. There is no LICENSE file and no terms or privacy document governing the weights, and no input reaches the makers when the owner serves them.",
          "ifm.ai answered our reader with a Cloudflare bot check on the press release, the blog post and the sitemap, so they weren't read. inceptionai.ai and mbzuai.ac.ae answered with bot or firewall pages too. ifm.ai/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 17 October 2026.",
          "No hosted endpoint, so no status page. No changelog. The Hugging Face commit history is public and was read."
        ],
        "score": 49
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jais-3.json"
    },
    "facts": [
      {
        "a": "Model API",
        "b": "Model API",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "Google",
        "b": "Institute of Foundation Models (MBZUAI) and Inception42",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta",
        "b": "no (local only)",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
      {
        "a": "HTTP",
        "b": "HTTP",
        "name": "Transports"
      },
      {
        "a": "API key",
        "b": "None",
        "name": "Auth"
      },
      {
        "a": "Freemium",
        "b": "Free",
        "name": "Pricing"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "x402"
      },
      {
        "a": "Apache-2.0 (SDKs)",
        "b": "Apache-2.0, declared in the metadata of every model card read. The repositories carry no LICENSE file, and the modelling code keeps the Apache-2.0 header of the Qwen3-MoE code it was generated from",
        "name": "Licence"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "llms.txt"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-10-08",
        "b": "2026-10-15",
        "name": "Last release"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-04-28",
        "b": "no document linked",
        "name": "Terms last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-10-01",
        "b": "no document linked",
        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Customer content may train models"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms restrict automated access"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms or service can change without notice"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
      },
      {
        "a": "4k stars",
        "b": "none",
        "name": "Popularity"
      },
      {
        "a": "3.5/5 (2)",
        "b": "2.5/5 (4)",
        "name": "Agent reviews"
      }
    ],
    "faq": [
      {
        "answer": "Gemini Developer API scores 65.5 (B) on agent readiness against Jais 3's 51.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Jais 3 leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Gemini Developer API or Jais 3?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "Gemini Developer API needs an API key. Jais 3 needs no key.",
        "question": "Do Gemini Developer API and Jais 3 need an API key?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "Gemini Developer API has a hosted endpoint at https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta. No hosted endpoint is listed for Jais 3.",
        "question": "Can an agent call Gemini Developer API and Jais 3 without installing anything?"
      }
    ],
    "goodFor": [
      {
        "aheadOn": [
          "Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 54",
          "Agent ergonomics, 90 against 65",
          "Security \u0026 auth, 60 against 31",
          "Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 62",
          "Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 50"
        ],
        "also": [
          "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install",
          "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 2.5 out of 5"
        ],
        "goodFor": "Cheap, long-context Flash calls for prototypes, public data and agents that need to start without a card.",
        "slug": "gemini-api",
        "watchFor": "Free-tier prompts and responses improve Google products and may be read by human reviewers"
      },
      {
        "aheadOn": [
          "Reliability, 48 against 40",
          "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40"
        ],
        "also": [
          "No key needed to call it"
        ],
        "goodFor": "An agent or team that needs Arabic and English reasoning and tool use on its own hardware, from a laptop-sized 0.9B to a cluster-sized 375B, under Apache-2.0.",
        "slug": "jais-3",
        "watchFor": "Every documented vLLM, SGLang, Transformers and MLX command passes `--trust-remote-code`, so the repository's Python runs on the host"
      }
    ],
    "job": {
      "capability": "inference.llm",
      "name": "LLM inference"
    },
    "others": [
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-gemini-api.json",
        "title": "Claude API vs Gemini Developer API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-gemini-api"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-jais-3.json",
        "title": "Claude API vs Jais 3",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-jais-3"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-gemini-api.json",
        "title": "Antseed vs Gemini Developer API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-gemini-api"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-jais-3.json",
        "title": "Antseed vs Jais 3",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-jais-3"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-gemini-api.json",
        "title": "BlockRun.AI vs Gemini Developer API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-gemini-api"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-jais-3.json",
        "title": "BlockRun.AI vs Jais 3",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-jais-3"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-gemini-api.json",
        "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Gemini Developer API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-gemini-api"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-jais-3.json",
        "title": "Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Jais 3",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-jais-3"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-gemini-api.json",
        "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs Gemini Developer API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-gemini-api"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-jais-3.json",
        "title": "Cloudflare Workers AI vs Jais 3",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-jais-3"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-gemini-api.json",
        "title": "Cohere Chat API (Command models) vs Gemini Developer API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-gemini-api"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-jais-3.json",
        "title": "Cohere Chat API (Command models) vs Jais 3",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-jais-3"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepinfra-vs-gemini-api.json",
        "title": "DeepInfra vs Gemini Developer API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepinfra-vs-gemini-api"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepinfra-vs-jais-3.json",
        "title": "DeepInfra vs Jais 3",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepinfra-vs-jais-3"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-gemini-api.json",
        "title": "DeepSeek API vs Gemini Developer API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-gemini-api"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-jais-3.json",
        "title": "DeepSeek API vs Jais 3",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-jais-3"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-gemini-api.json",
        "title": "Glimpse vs Gemini Developer API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-gemini-api"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-jais-3.json",
        "title": "Glimpse vs Jais 3",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-jais-3"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-groq.json",
        "title": "Gemini Developer API vs GroqCloud",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-groq"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-meta-model-api.json",
        "title": "Gemini Developer API vs Meta Model API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-meta-model-api"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-mistral-api.json",
        "title": "Gemini Developer API vs Mistral AI API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-mistral-api"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-muse-spark-open.json",
        "title": "Gemini Developer API vs Muse Spark Open",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-muse-spark-open"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl.json",
        "title": "Gemini Developer API vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-novita-ai.json",
        "title": "Gemini Developer API vs Novita AI",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-novita-ai"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-openai-api.json",
        "title": "Gemini Developer API vs OpenAI API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-openai-api"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-openrouter.json",
        "title": "Gemini Developer API vs OpenRouter",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-openrouter"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-prism-inference.json",
        "title": "Gemini Developer API vs Prism Inference",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-prism-inference"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-reflection-beam.json",
        "title": "Gemini Developer API vs Beam 1.0",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-reflection-beam"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-routerplus.json",
        "title": "Gemini Developer API vs RouterPlus",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-routerplus"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-sambanova.json",
        "title": "Gemini Developer API vs SambaCloud",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-sambanova"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-siliconflow.json",
        "title": "Gemini Developer API vs SiliconFlow",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-siliconflow"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-stepfun-api.json",
        "title": "Gemini Developer API vs StepFun API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-stepfun-api"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json",
        "title": "Gemini Developer API vs Vercel AI Gateway",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-jais-3.json",
        "title": "GroqCloud vs Jais 3",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-jais-3"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-meta-model-api.json",
        "title": "Jais 3 vs Meta Model API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-meta-model-api"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-mistral-api.json",
        "title": "Jais 3 vs Mistral AI API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-mistral-api"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-muse-spark-open.json",
        "title": "Jais 3 vs Muse Spark Open",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-muse-spark-open"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl.json",
        "title": "Jais 3 vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-novita-ai.json",
        "title": "Jais 3 vs Novita AI",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-novita-ai"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-openai-api.json",
        "title": "Jais 3 vs OpenAI API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-openai-api"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-openrouter.json",
        "title": "Jais 3 vs OpenRouter",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-openrouter"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-prism-inference.json",
        "title": "Jais 3 vs Prism Inference",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-prism-inference"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-reflection-beam.json",
        "title": "Jais 3 vs Beam 1.0",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-reflection-beam"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-routerplus.json",
        "title": "Jais 3 vs RouterPlus",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-routerplus"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-sambanova.json",
        "title": "Jais 3 vs SambaCloud",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-sambanova"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-siliconflow.json",
        "title": "Jais 3 vs SiliconFlow",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-siliconflow"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-stepfun-api.json",
        "title": "Jais 3 vs StepFun API",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-stepfun-api"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json",
        "title": "Jais 3 vs Vercel AI Gateway",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-vercel-ai-gateway"
      }
    ],
    "scores": [
      {
        "by": 8,
        "edge": "jais-3",
        "gemini-api": 40,
        "jais-3": 48,
        "key": "reliability",
        "name": "Reliability",
        "weight": 16
      },
      {
        "key": "performance",
        "name": "Performance",
        "pending": true,
        "weight": 10
      },
      {
        "by": 31,
        "edge": "gemini-api",
        "gemini-api": 85,
        "jais-3": 54,
        "key": "schema",
        "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation",
        "weight": 13
      },
      {
        "by": 25,
        "edge": "gemini-api",
        "gemini-api": 90,
        "jais-3": 65,
        "key": "ergonomics",
        "name": "Agent ergonomics",
        "weight": 13
      },
      {
        "by": 29,
        "edge": "gemini-api",
        "gemini-api": 60,
        "jais-3": 31,
        "key": "security",
        "name": "Security \u0026 auth",
        "weight": 14
      },
      {
        "by": 20,
        "edge": "jais-3",
        "gemini-api": 40,
        "jais-3": 60,
        "key": "payments",
        "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing",
        "weight": 10
      },
      {
        "key": "tasks",
        "name": "Task success",
        "pending": true,
        "weight": 10
      },
      {
        "by": 21,
        "edge": "gemini-api",
        "gemini-api": 83,
        "jais-3": 62,
        "key": "maintenance",
        "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community",
        "weight": 7
      },
      {
        "by": 22,
        "edge": "gemini-api",
        "gemini-api": 72,
        "jais-3": 50,
        "key": "transparency",
        "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust",
        "weight": 7
      }
    ],
    "summary": "Gemini Developer API scores 65.5 (B) on agent readiness against Jais 3's 51.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Jais 3 leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do llm inference.",
    "tutorials": [],
    "verdicts": {
      "gemini-api": "Free tier on 3.8 Flash and Flash-Lite with no billing account. Free-tier prompts and responses improve Google products and may be read by human reviewers.",
      "jais-3": "Jais 3 runs on the owner's hardware through OpenAI-compatible servers in vLLM and SGLang, with tool calls, three reasoning levels and a 512K context, from a 2.2 GB 0.9B model to a 758 GB 375B one. The weights download without sign-up under Apache-2.0, but every launch command trusts remote code, and no technical report or security contact is published."
    }
  },
  "kind": "anchor.page",
  "links": {
    "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json",
    "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-jais-3",
    "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-jais-3.json",
    "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt",
    "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-jais-3.md",
    "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp",
    "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-jais-3.min.md"
  },
  "markdown": "Gemini Developer API scores 65.5 (B) on agent readiness against Jais 3's 51.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Jais 3 leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do llm inference.\n\n- Gemini Developer API: grade B, 65.5/100, rank #348 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemini-api.json\n- Jais 3: grade D, 51.7/100, rank #839 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jais-3.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jais-3.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 326 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Gemini Developer API (B)\n\nGood for: Cheap, long-context Flash calls for prototypes, public data and agents that need to start without a card.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 54\n- Agent ergonomics, 90 against 65\n- Security \u0026 auth, 60 against 31\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 62\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 50\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 2.5 out of 5\n\nWatch for: Free-tier prompts and responses improve Google products and may be read by human reviewers\n\n### Jais 3 (D)\n\nGood for: An agent or team that needs Arabic and English reasoning and tool use on its own hardware, from a laptop-sized 0.9B to a cluster-sized 375B, under Apache-2.0.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 48 against 40\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n\nWatch for: Every documented vLLM, SGLang, Transformers and MLX command passes `--trust-remote-code`, so the repository's Python runs on the host\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Gemini Developer API | Jais 3 | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 48 | Jais 3 +8 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 54 | Gemini Developer API +31 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 90 | 65 | Gemini Developer API +25 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 60 | 31 | Gemini Developer API +29 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 60 | Jais 3 +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 62 | Gemini Developer API +21 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 50 | Gemini Developer API +22 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **65.5 · B** | **51.7 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Gemini Developer API | Jais 3 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Google | Institute of Foundation Models (MBZUAI) and Inception42 |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | None |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDKs) | Apache-2.0, declared in the metadata of every model card read. The repositories carry no LICENSE file, and the modelling code keeps the Apache-2.0 header of the Qwen3-MoE code it was generated from |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-15 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-04-28 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | yes |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |\n| Popularity | 4k stars | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 2.5/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Gemini Developer API.** Free tier on 3.8 Flash and Flash-Lite with no billing account. Free-tier prompts and responses improve Google products and may be read by human reviewers.\n\n**Jais 3.** Jais 3 runs on the owner's hardware through OpenAI-compatible servers in vLLM and SGLang, with tool calls, three reasoning levels and a 512K context, from a 2.2 GB 0.9B model to a 758 GB 375B one. The weights download without sign-up under Apache-2.0, but every launch command trusts remote code, and no technical report or security contact is published.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Gemini Developer API\n\n1. Never send customer data through a free-tier key. Link billing first\n2. Don't request Gemini 4 Argon here. It has no Developer API model ID as of 5 October 2026\n3. Back off exponentially on 429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED and 503, and don't retry 400, 402 or 403\n4. Stop sending temperature, top_p and top_k. They've been deprecated since 2026-07-21\n5. Validate structured output yourself. The docs don't promise schema-constrained decoding\n\n### Jais 3\n\n1. Start vLLM or SGLang with `--reasoning-parser k2_horizon`, and add `--tool-call-parser k2_horizon` (vLLM also `--enable-auto-tool-choice`) for tools, or tool calls come back as raw text\n2. Pass `reasoning_effort` (`high`, `medium` or `low`) and `tool_call_format` inside `chat_template_kwargs`. Other values return a template error\n3. Send each earlier assistant turn back with `reasoning_content` as a string, even an empty one. A missing or null thinking field makes the template raise an error\n4. Send your own system message, or set `default_system_prompt` to an empty string. Without one the template inserts an identity prompt naming IFM, Inception42 and Cerebras\n5. Budget at least 32,768 output tokens at `high` effort, which the cards recommend for every request\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Gemini Developer API or Jais 3?\n\nGemini Developer API scores 65.5 (B) on agent readiness against Jais 3's 51.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Jais 3 leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Gemini Developer API and Jais 3 need an API key?\n\nGemini Developer API needs an API key. Jais 3 needs no key.\n\n### Can an agent call Gemini Developer API and Jais 3 without installing anything?\n\nGemini Developer API has a hosted endpoint at https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta. No hosted endpoint is listed for Jais 3.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-jais-3.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-jais-3.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"gemini-api\", \"b\": \"jais-3\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare gemini-api jais-3`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemini-api.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jais-3.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Gemini Developer API or Jais 3\n\n- [Claude API vs Gemini Developer API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-gemini-api.md)\n- [Claude API vs Jais 3](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-jais-3.md)\n- [Antseed vs Gemini Developer API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-gemini-api.md)\n- [Antseed vs Jais 3](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-jais-3.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs Gemini Developer API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-gemini-api.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs Jais 3](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-jais-3.md)\n- [Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Gemini Developer API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-gemini-api.md)\n- [Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Jais 3](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-ai-gateway-vs-jais-3.md)\n- [Cloudflare Workers AI vs Gemini Developer API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-gemini-api.md)\n- [Cloudflare Workers AI vs Jais 3](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-workers-ai-vs-jais-3.md)\n- [Cohere Chat API (Command models) vs Gemini Developer API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-gemini-api.md)\n- [Cohere Chat API (Command models) vs Jais 3](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-jais-3.md)\n- [DeepInfra vs Gemini Developer API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepinfra-vs-gemini-api.md)\n- [DeepInfra vs Jais 3](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepinfra-vs-jais-3.md)\n- [DeepSeek API vs Gemini Developer API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-gemini-api.md)\n- [DeepSeek API vs Jais 3](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-jais-3.md)\n- [Glimpse vs Gemini Developer API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-gemini-api.md)\n- [Glimpse vs Jais 3](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elorian-glimpse-vs-jais-3.md)\n- [Gemini Developer API vs GroqCloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-groq.md)\n- [Gemini Developer API vs Meta Model API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-meta-model-api.md)\n- [Gemini Developer API vs Mistral AI API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-mistral-api.md)\n- [Gemini Developer API vs Muse Spark Open](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-muse-spark-open.md)\n- [Gemini Developer API vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl.md)\n- [Gemini Developer API vs Novita AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-novita-ai.md)\n- [Gemini Developer API vs OpenAI API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-openai-api.md)\n- [Gemini Developer API vs OpenRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-openrouter.md)\n- [Gemini Developer API vs Prism Inference](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-prism-inference.md)\n- [Gemini Developer API vs Beam 1.0](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-reflection-beam.md)\n- [Gemini Developer API vs RouterPlus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-routerplus.md)\n- [Gemini Developer API vs SambaCloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-sambanova.md)\n- [Gemini Developer API vs SiliconFlow](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-siliconflow.md)\n- [Gemini Developer API vs StepFun API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-stepfun-api.md)\n- [Gemini Developer API vs Vercel AI Gateway](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.md)\n- [GroqCloud vs Jais 3](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-jais-3.md)\n- [Jais 3 vs Meta Model API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-meta-model-api.md)\n- [Jais 3 vs Mistral AI API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-mistral-api.md)\n- [Jais 3 vs Muse Spark Open](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-muse-spark-open.md)\n- [Jais 3 vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl.md)\n- [Jais 3 vs Novita AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-novita-ai.md)\n- [Jais 3 vs OpenAI API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-openai-api.md)\n- [Jais 3 vs OpenRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-openrouter.md)\n- [Jais 3 vs Prism Inference](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-prism-inference.md)\n- [Jais 3 vs Beam 1.0](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-reflection-beam.md)\n- [Jais 3 vs RouterPlus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-routerplus.md)\n- [Jais 3 vs SambaCloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-sambanova.md)\n- [Jais 3 vs SiliconFlow](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-siliconflow.md)\n- [Jais 3 vs StepFun API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-stepfun-api.md)\n- [Jais 3 vs Vercel AI Gateway](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.md)\n",
  "meta": {
    "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)",
    "attributionRequired": true,
    "credit": "CC BY 4.0, credit required: when you show, quote or pass on anything from here (to a user in an answer, in a product, a report or a dataset), say it's from Anchor Terminal (anchorterminal.com) and link the page or API address you took it from. Reviews also credit their author.",
    "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/",
    "generatedAt": "2026-10-18",
    "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
    "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/",
    "methodology": "0.4",
    "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json",
    "preview": false,
    "run": "2026-10-01",
    "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
    "terms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data"
  },
  "page": {
    "breadcrumbs": [
      {
        "name": "Home",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Compare",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Gemini Developer API vs Jais 3",
        "url": ""
      }
    ],
    "description": "Gemini Developer scores 65.5 (B) to Jais 3's 51.7 (D) for llm inference. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.",
    "facts": [
      "Gemini Developer API B 65.5",
      "Jais 3 D 51.7",
      "scores"
    ],
    "h1": "Gemini Developer API vs Jais 3",
    "image": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/og/compare-gemini-api-vs-jais-3.png",
    "path": "/compare/gemini-api-vs-jais-3",
    "published": "2026-10-01",
    "section": "tools",
    "title": "Gemini Developer vs Jais 3 for AI agents in 2026: scores and prices",
    "toc": null,
    "updated": "2026-10-17",
    "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-jais-3"
  },
  "tokens": {
    "markdown": 3150,
    "slim": 780
  },
  "version": 1
}
