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Gemini 3.8 Flash Pricing
Google · google-gemini-3-8-flash
Input / 1M tokens
$0.825
Output / 1M tokens
$4.13
Context window
1,048,576 tokens
≈ 1,398 pages of text
Max output
65,536 tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0026
1,000 requests / month$2.64/mo10,000 requests / month$26.40/mo100,000 requests / month$264.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Gemini 3.8 Flash preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
List price per 1M tokens since we started tracking in Sep 2026. Each step marks a price change — hover a point for the exact date and rate.
What it excels at
Handles 1M-token multimodal inputs at high throughput with low latency. Suitable for large-scale document, video, and audio processing pipelines.
The business tradeoff
Weaker on multi-step reasoning and complex coding compared with Gemini flagship models. Output tokens cost five times the input rate.
Cheaper from Google
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Oct 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.