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MODEL PROOF # Gemini 3.8 Flash Google · 02 Sept 2026 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic FRONTIER ## Nothing scores at least as high for less, or higher for the same price, under this workload. **$3.00** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out Reasoning tokens are billed separately. Evidence as of 05 Nov 2026 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) [LMArena · cc-by-4.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset) Independent LMArena score 1,498.5 ± 4.43 · 47,803 votes Context window 1.05M Maximum output 65.54K Input modalities text, image, video, file, audio Output modalities text Published input price $1.50 / 1M tokens Published output price $7.50 / 1M tokens Pricing kind fixed Inspect [complete billing conditions](#billing-details) and endpoint terms below. Price from Google: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery, with at least 90% of the reference context and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate. Cheaper right now: $0.750 in · $3.75 out per million tokens at Google, a promotion of 50%. The price on this page is Google’s standard rate: the ranking uses the standard rate, never a promotion. Every price dimension · USD per million tokens | Input | $1.50 /M | | --- | --- | | Output | $7.50 /M | | Cached input | $0.150 /M | | Cache write | $0.083 /M | | Cache write 1h | Unknown /M | | Reasoning | $7.50 /M | | Web search | $0.014 /call | **Reasoning tokens are billed separately** at $7.50/M, on top of output. Its share of your bill depends on the reasoning tokens used. ### Who sells it The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs. 7 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test. | Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Seller Google AI Studio google-ai-studio/flex Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.038 Context limit 1,048,576 tokens Output limit 65,536 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount 50% · already included in these rates Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.375 | Output $1.88 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 100.00% | | Seller Google google-vertex/global/flex Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.038 Context limit 1,048,576 tokens Output limit 65,536 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount 50% · already included in these rates Uptime · last 30 minutes 66.67% | Input $0.375 | Output $1.88 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 91.58% | | Seller Google AI Studio google-ai-studio Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.075 Context limit 1,048,576 tokens Output limit 65,536 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount 50% · already included in these rates Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.750 | Output $3.75 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 100.00% | | Seller Google google-vertex/global Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.075 Context limit 1,048,576 tokens Output limit 65,536 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount 50% · already included in these rates Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.750 | Output $3.75 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 100.00% | | Seller Google google-vertex/us Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.083 Context limit 1,048,576 tokens Output limit 65,536 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount 50% · already included in these rates Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.825 | Output $4.13 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.79% | | Seller Google AI Studio google-ai-studio/priority Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.135 Context limit 1,048,576 tokens Output limit 65,536 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount 50% · already included in these rates Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $1.35 | Output $6.75 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 100.00% | | Seller Google google-vertex/global/priority Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.135 Context limit 1,048,576 tokens Output limit 65,536 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount 50% · already included in these rates Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $1.35 | Output $6.75 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 100.00% | ### Independent scores | LMArena Elo | 1498.5 high | | --- | --- | | LMArena row | gemini-3.8-flash-high | LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero. #### Best rankings by task - Godot games #5 1273 - Blender3d #6 1193 - SVG #10 1293 - Mobile apps #10 1232 - Full-stack apps #11 1238 - ASCII art #12 1272 - Websites #15 1300 - Code categories #15 1302 Per-task Elo and rank from [Design Arena](https://designarena.ai), via OpenRouter’s model feed. The rank is the feed’s, and it counts models OpenRouter does not list. ### Capability | Context window | 1M | | --- | --- | | Max output | 65K | | Input modes | text, image, video, file, audio | | Tool use | yes | | Reasoning | always on | | Open weights | no | ### Provenance | Price source | [openrouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) | | --- | --- | | Fetched | 2026-11-05 | | Quality data | verified | 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. ## Questions this page answers What does Gemini 3.8 Flash cost? $1.50/M in, $7.50/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription. Does Gemini 3.8 Flash have an independent quality score? Gemini 3.8 Flash has an LMArena score in this catalogue. What beats Gemini 3.8 Flash? Nothing scores at least as high as Gemini 3.8 Flash for less, or higher for the same price. Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Gemini 3.8 Flash? No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated. MODEL MONUMENT ## Save or share this proof Download proof card · 1200 × 630 Preview and more sharing options Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash. Balanced workload. Frontier. Evidence as of 05 Nov 2026. Copy model link Download square card · 1080 × 1080 Copy landscape image Share landscape card ## Related - Side by side [Claude Fable 5](/compare/anthropic__claude-fable-5--vs--google__gemini-3.8-flash/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Muse Wonder](/models/meta__muse-wonder/) - Same vendor [Gemini 3.7 Flash](/models/google__gemini-3.7-flash/) - Google models [Google](/providers/google/) - Where this model appears [frontier](/frontier/) - Side by side [Claude Opus 4.6](/compare/anthropic__claude-opus-4.6--vs--google__gemini-3.8-flash/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Claude Fable 5](/models/anthropic__claude-fable-5/) - Same vendor [Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview](/models/google__gemini-3.1-pro-preview/) - Where this model appears [knee](/knee/) - Side by side [Claude Opus 5](/compare/anthropic__claude-opus-5--vs--google__gemini-3.8-flash/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Claude Opus 4.6](/models/anthropic__claude-opus-4.6/) - Same vendor [Gemini 3.6 Flash](/models/google__gemini-3.6-flash/) ## Badge The verdict as one SVG, for a README or a docs page. 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