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Reka Flash 3: pricing, context and benchmarks
Reka Flash 3 is a language model from Reka AI released on March 12, 2025. It costs $0.1 per million input tokens and $0.2 per million output tokens, with a 65.5K-token context window. No independent score has been published for it so far.
| Price | 26/30 | |
|---|---|---|
| Context | 2/15 | |
| Features | 10/15 |
What you need to know about Reka Flash 3
Reka Flash 3 was released by Reka AI (United States) on March 12, 2025. It accepts text as input and produces text. Its context window reaches 65,536 tokens, larger than 12 % of the models in the registry, and it can write up to 58,982 tokens in one go.
Released more than 1 year ago, it belongs to a generation most vendors have since superseded.
Reka Flash 3 pricing
On OpenRouter, Reka Flash 3 costs $0.1 per million input tokens and $0.2 per million output tokens. Counting three tokens read for every token written, its average price is $0.125 per million, more expensive than 13 % of paid models (6.1 times cheaper than the median of $0.76).
A concrete example: a task that sends 2,000 tokens (about 1,500 words) and receives a 500-token answer costs $0.0003. At 1,000 tasks a day, budget $9 a month. The price calculator redoes this with your own volumes.
Performance and benchmarks
Epoch AI does not yet publish a capabilities index for Reka Flash 3. We therefore show no made-up performance rating: only price, context and features count towards its score.
Features, privacy and local use
- It does not support tool calling: it is not suited to driving an AI agent that has to act.
- It can answer in an enforced JSON format (structured outputs).
- It is a reasoning model: it "thinks" before answering, which helps on hard tasks but uses more output tokens.
- Its knowledge stops at January 2025.
Its weights are open and downloadable from Hugging Face: you can run it on your own machines without sending your data to a third party.
Other Reka AI models
| Model | Released | Avg. price | ECI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reka Edge | Mar 20, 2026 | $0.1 | — |
Verdict
Reka Flash 3 scores 63/100 on our grid, which only uses published figures.
Strengths
- Low price: cheaper than 87 % of paid models.
- Open weights: self-hostable, your data stays with you.
Limitations
- No tool calling: unusable as an agent's brain.
- No independent score published: performance cannot be verified.
- Older generation, often replaced by a newer model from the same vendor.
- Text only: reads neither images nor files.
Avoid if…
- you are building an agent that must call tools.
Alternatives
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct$0.13
- UI-TARS 7B$0.13
- Hy-MT2-30B-A3B$0.13
- Hy-MT2-7B$0.13
- Qwen3 14B$0.15
- Voxtral Small 24B 2507$0.15
Comparisons and tools
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Reka Flash 3 cost?
$0.1 per million input tokens and $0.2 per million output tokens on OpenRouter (checked October 25, 2026). A task with 2,000 tokens read and 500 written costs $0.0003.
How big is Reka Flash 3's context window?
65,536 tokens, roughly 49,000 words, with a maximum of 58,982 output tokens.
Can Reka Flash 3 run locally?
Yes, its weights are published.
Is Reka Flash 3 suitable for an AI agent?
No: without tool calling it cannot act, only answer.
What are the alternatives to Reka Flash 3?
The closest models on price and performance are Qwen2.5 7B Instruct, UI-TARS 7B, and Hy-MT2-30B-A3B.
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