Gemini 3.8 Flash: API pricing, context window and capabilities

Prices from official vendor price lists · October 2026

Gemini 3.8 Flash costs $0.75 per 1M input tokens and $3.75 per 1M output tokens, with a 1.05M context window. Mid-priced: dearer than 66% of this rating, with Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite as the nearest cheaper Google DeepMind option. Recorded for vision, reasoning, adjustable thinking.

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Capabilities

API $/1M (in / out)

$0.75 / $3.75

Context window

1.05M tokens

Price / mo

API only

Overview Reviews

Gemini 3.8 Flash is an AI model from Google DeepMind, priced at $0.75 input and $3.75 output per 1M tokens. That places it in the mid tier of this rating — dearer than 66% of the 205 priced models listed.

It holds 1.05M tokens in a single conversation, enough for a full codebase or a contract bundle in one pass. Capabilities recorded in this rating: text & chat, vision, audio, video, reasoning. Access is through the API rather than a consumer subscription.

API price$0.75 / $3.75per 1M tokens, in / out

Context1.05M tokenstokens per conversation

VendorGoogle DeepMindall models from this vendor

TierMiddearer than 66% of models

Cost calculator

1M tokens/mo10M tokens/mo50M tokens/mo200M tokens/mo

Standard$3.00~~AED 11 per month~~

With batch −50%$1.50~~AED 6 per month~~

With caching on input$2.83~~AED 10 per month~~

Standard$30.00~~AED 110 per month~~

With batch −50%$15.00~~AED 55 per month~~

With caching on input$28.31~~AED 104 per month~~

Standard$150~~AED 551 per month~~

With batch −50%$75.00~~AED 275 per month~~

With caching on input$142~~AED 520 per month~~

Standard$600~~AED 2,204 per month~~

With batch −50%$300~~AED 1,102 per month~~

With caching on input$566~~AED 2,080 per month~~

Assumes a 1:3 input-to-output ratio, which is typical for chat and generation. Dirham figures use 3.6725 per dollar. Batch and caching discounts apply where the vendor offers them.

Compared with alternatives

How Gemini 3.8 Flash sits against its neighbours in this rating. Tap a card to open that model.

Kimi K2.7 Code

Cheaper

Moonshot AI

$0.71 / $3.5262.1K tokens

Gemini 3.7 Flash

Closest match

Google DeepMind

$0.75 / $3.751.05M tokens

Qwen3 Max

Step up

Alibaba (Qwen)

$0.78 / $3.9262.1K tokens

Good and poor fit

Good fit

Multi-step analysis, planning and code review, where the first plausible answer is often wrong.
Reading screenshots, charts, scanned documents and photos.
Whole codebases, contract bundles and long transcripts in a single pass.

Poor fit

Long multi-step reasoning, where a larger model finishes in fewer attempts.

Related filters

Text & chat234 models for text generation and chat

Vision159 models that read images

Reasoning175 models that think before answering

Adjustable thinking85 models with a reasoning depth dial

Tool calling172 models that call your functions

Google DeepMind17 models from this vendor

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Frequently asked questions

How much does Gemini 3.8 Flash cost?

$0.75 / $3.75 per 1M tokens, input and output. In dirhams that is roughly AED 2.75 per 1M input tokens. Batch processing halves it where the vendor offers it.

What is the context window of Gemini 3.8 Flash?

1.05M tokens in a single conversation.

What can Gemini 3.8 Flash do?

In this rating it is recorded with: text & chat, vision, audio, video, reasoning, adjustable thinking, web search grounding, tool calling, structured JSON output, code execution, long context 1M+, prompt caching, batch API, priority / fast tier, free tier, low latency, multilingual, proprietary API.

Is Gemini 3.8 Flash a good choice?

It depends on the job. See the good-fit and poor-fit lists above, and compare against the neighbouring models before committing.

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