Gemini 3.8 Flash pricing & price history
Gemini 3.8 Flash by Google costs $0.82 per 1M input tokens and $4.13 per 1M output tokens, with a 1M token context window. The cheapest provider currently charges $0.38 input / $1.88 output.
Price history
| Date | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-15 | $0.75 → $0.82 +10% | $3.75 → $4.13 +10% |
Which platform runs Gemini 3.8 Flash most reliably
2 platformsBy 30-day real-traffic success rate, Google AI Studio is the most stable and also the cheapest.
| Platform | Last 30 days | Stability | 24 h | 30 min | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google AI Studio official most stable | Consistently stableavg 100.00% | 100% | 100% | ||
| Consistently stableavg 99.97% | 100% | 100% |
Success rates come from real API traffic routed to each platform (public OpenRouter data), not our probes; each daily bar is the average of that day's samples. Green ≥ 99.5 %, yellow ≥ 97 %, orange ≥ 90 %, red < 90 %. Updated 28m ago.
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Cheaper alternatives to Gemini 3.8 Flash
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Intel. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 GLM 5.3 Flash Z.ai (Zhipu) | $0.0399 | $0.0784 | 1M | 27.8 | compare |
 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 DeepSeek | $0.098 | $0.29 | 1M | 28.6 | compare |
 MiMo-V2.6-Flash Xiaomi | $0.14 | $0.28 | 1.1M | 26.7 | compare |
 Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic | $0.10 | $0.50 | 1M | 36.5 | compare |
 GPT-6 Luna OpenAI | $0.10 | $0.50 | 1.1M | 27.9 | compare |
 MiniMax M3.1 Flash MiniMax | $0.15 | $0.60 | 1M | 29.1 | compare |
GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI | $0.20 | $1.20 | 1.1M | 23.8 | compare |
MiMo-V2.6-Pro Xiaomi | $0.43 | $0.87 | 1.1M | 29.9 | compare |
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About Gemini 3.8 Flash
Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's most intelligent Flash model with significant gains from 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning.
FAQ
How much does Gemini 3.8 Flash cost?
Gemini 3.8 Flash by Google costs $0.82 per 1M input tokens and $4.13 per 1M output tokens, with a 1M token context window. The cheapest provider currently charges $0.38 input / $1.88 output. A typical request with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about $0.0037.
What is the context window of Gemini 3.8 Flash?
Gemini 3.8 Flash supports up to 1,048,576 tokens of context and up to 65,536 output tokens per request.
Has Gemini 3.8 Flash’s price changed?
Yes. ModelBank recorded 1 price change; the latest on 2026-10-15.
Is Gemini 3.8 Flash being deprecated?
No retirement date has been announced for Gemini 3.8 Flash as of 2026-11-12.
What are cheaper alternatives to Gemini 3.8 Flash?
Cheaper options include GLM 5.3 Flash ($0.0399/$0.0784), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 ($0.098/$0.29), MiMo-V2.6-Flash ($0.14/$0.28), Claude Haiku 5.5 ($0.10/$0.50).