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Gemini 3.8 Flash

Google · Speed-tier multimodal value.

Flash brings Gemini's multimodality and 1M context to the speed tier — the volume workhorse of the Google lineup.

Live OpenRouter pricing · capability ratings & benchmarks are indicative

Context window

1.0M

tokens

Input · $/1M

$0.75

per million tokens

Output · $/1M

$3.75

per million tokens

Vs. cost floor

13×

output cost vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Capability profile

Editorial ratings across six axes (0–100), compiled from publisher reports and public evals — indicative, not measured by TrendNexus.

Benchmark highs

MMMU≈78%

strong multimodal for the tier

MMLU-Pro≈79%

broad knowledge

LiveCodeBench≈70%

capable coding

Latencyleader

class-leading responsiveness

Where it sits in the field

Output cost per million tokens across all 15 tracked flagships — Gemini 3.8 Flash highlighted.

Claude Fable 5.1$50.00GPT-5.5$30.00Claude Opus 5.5$20.00Kimi K3$15.00GPT-5.6 Terra Pro$12.00Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview$12.00GPT-6 Sol Pro$10.00Claude Sonnet 5$10.00GLM 5.3 Prime$8.80Grok 4.7$4.80Qwen3 Max Thinking$3.90Gemini 3.8 Flash$3.75DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423$0.696Llama 4 Maverick$0.652DeepSeek V4.1 Flash$0.29

What it's suited to build

Product classes where this model's profile wins — mockups are illustrative, not model output.

Conversational

Real-time assistants

Voice and chat where latency is the experience.

Data & analytics

Media pipelines at volume

Cheap image/video/document understanding at scale.

Self-hosted / edge

Mobile-first AI features

Snappy multimodal features in consumer apps.

Benchmark figures and capability ratings are indicative — compiled from publisher reports and public leaderboards, refreshed editorially, and not independently measured by TrendNexus. Verify against your own evals before procurement decisions. Pricing updates with the daily build.