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Gemini 3.8 Flash pricing & cost calculator
Prices last updated:
Input
$0.75
per 1M tokens
Output
$3.75
per 1M tokens
Context window
1.05M
1,048,576 tokens
Promotional rate through 31 December 2026; scheduled to rise to $1.50 / $7.50.
About Gemini 3.8 Flash pricing
Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google’s mid-tier model that balances capability and price for everyday production workloads. It is billed per token: $0.75 for every million tokens you send and $3.75 for every million tokens it generates, so output costs 5× as much as input.
For a typical request of 1,000 input and 500 output tokens, Gemini 3.8 Flash costs about $0.002625 — the 4th-cheapest of the 14 models we track. One million input tokens is roughly 2,000 pages of English prose.
With Google’s batch API (50% off, results within 24 hours) the rate drops to $0.375 input and $1.875 output per million tokens.
Google’s official pricing page is the source of truth; see our guide to how AI pricing works for caching and long-context rules.
Gemini 3.8 Flash cost calculator
- Per request
- $0.002625
- Per day
- $2.62
- Per month (30 days)
- $78.75
What Gemini 3.8 Flash costs for common tasks
| Task | Input tokens | Output tokens | Per request | Per 1,000 requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat reply | 500 | 300 | $0.0015 | $1.50 |
| Support chatbot turn with history | 3,000 | 400 | $0.00375 | $3.75 |
| RAG answer (retrieved context) | 6,000 | 600 | $0.00675 | $6.75 |
| Summarize a 20-page document | 12,000 | 1,000 | $0.0128 | $12.75 |
| Long-document analysis | 100,000 | 2,000 | $0.0825 | $82.50 |
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Gemini 3.8 Flash pricing FAQ
- How much does Gemini 3.8 Flash cost per token?
- Gemini 3.8 Flash costs $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens through the Google API. That is $0.000001 per input token and $0.000004 per output token.
- How much does a typical Gemini 3.8 Flash request cost?
- A request with 1,000 input tokens and 500 output tokens costs about $0.002625 on Gemini 3.8 Flash, or $2.62 per thousand requests.
- What is the context window of Gemini 3.8 Flash?
- Gemini 3.8 Flash accepts up to 1,048,576 tokens (about 1.05M) of context per request, which covers the prompt, any documents you include and the conversation history.
- Does Gemini 3.8 Flash have batch pricing?
- Yes. Google's batch API processes requests asynchronously (typically within 24 hours) at 50% off, bringing Gemini 3.8 Flash to $0.375 input and $1.875 output per million tokens.
- How accurate is the token count for Gemini 3.8 Flash?
- It is an estimate. Google does not publish a browser tokenizer for Gemini 3.8 Flash, so Tokenova counts with o200k_base and applies a Google-specific adjustment. Expect real counts within roughly 10–20% for English text; use Google's token-counting API for exact numbers.