How much does Gemini 3.8 Flash cost per million tokens?

Gemini 3.8 Flash costs $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens at list price, and $0.075 per million cached input tokens.

What is the context window of Gemini 3.8 Flash?

Gemini 3.8 Flash accepts up to 1,048,576 tokens of context and returns up to 65,536 output tokens.

How much do 1,000 chat messages cost with Gemini 3.8 Flash?

About $2.63, assuming 1,000 input + 500 output tokens per message.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Gemini 3.8 Flash?

In the same price range, OpenAI GPT-6 Luna Pro ($0.1 / $0.5), OpenAI GPT-6 Luna ($0.1 / $0.5), Qwen Qwen3.8 Omni Flash ($0.15 / $0.47) cost less per token. Quality differs: test on your own prompts.

Where can I buy Google API credits for less?

Discount credit books resell OpenRouter usage below face value within their depth, OpenRouter adds a 5.5% card fee, and Google sells its own credits at face value. The live table on this page ranks them for $100 of usage.

Google · live price

Gemini 3.8 Flash API pricing

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.

Mid-range ($1–5 per 1M)Tool callingReasoningimage inputvideo inputfile inputaudio input

Input: $0.75; per 1M tokens
Output: $3.75; per 1M tokens
Cached input: $0.075; per 1M tokens
Context: 1.0M; 66K max output

List price from OpenRouter, which passes Google's price through without markup. Refreshed hourly. Released September 2, 2026. Model id google/gemini-3.8-flash.

What Gemini 3.8 Flash costs in practice

At list price, before any batch or caching discount.

1,000 chat messages

$2.63

1,000 input + 500 output tokens each

1,000 RAG questions

$7.88

8,000 input + 500 output tokens each

100 coding-agent steps

$3.00

30,000 input + 2,000 output tokens each, no caching

Gemini 3.8 Flash price history

No price change since we started tracking on 2026-10-01. We record prices daily; changes will show here.

Gemini 3.8 Flash price by host

Google AI Studio serves it below list price right now. Route to it to pay less on every token.

Google AI Studio$0.375 in · $1.88 out · 1.0M ctx · 100.0% uptime 24h
Google$0.375 in · $1.88 out · 1.0M ctx · 98.4% uptime 24h

Where to buy Google credits for less

Gemini 3.8 Flash costs the same per token everywhere it's sold through OpenRouter. What changes is the price of the credits. Live quotes for $100 of usage:

#	Where you buy	You payYou pay for $100.00 of usage	vs list price	Price source
1	OrbioCardCheapest right now Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee and card processing, both included in the quote.	$85.10 incl. $2.60 card processing	-14.9%	live quote
2	smaaartCard Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee on face value. Card processing and taxes shown at checkout.	$95.00 + card processing and tax at checkout (not in this number)	-5.0%	live quote
3	Direct from the labCard Prepaid credits at face value (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google…). Taxes may apply.	$100.00 no top-up fee	list price	face value
4	OpenRouterCrypto 5% on crypto purchases. No markup on model prices.	$105.00 fees included	+5.0%	published fee
5	OpenRouterCard 5.5% on card purchases, $0.80 minimum. No markup on model prices.	$105.50 fees included	+5.5%	published fee

Disclosure: this site is run by the team behind smaaart, one of the options compared. Tables are ranked by price only, from live quotes and published fees, including when smaaart isn't first. How we compare

Gemini 3.8 Flash cost calculator

Enter your monthly tokens to price your own usage.

Model$0.75 in / $3.75 out per 1M tokens · list price, liveInput tokens / month (millions)Output tokens / month (millions)

Usage at list price$75.00/ month

Cheaper alternatives to Gemini 3.8 Flash

Other labs' models in the same price range or the one below, cheaper per token.

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash	$0.15	$0.47	$0.23	1M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashX	$0.37	$1.25	$0.59	1.0M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	$0.03	$0.5	$0.147	1.0M
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash	$0.15	$0.47	$0.23	1M

Other Google models

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Gemini 3.7 Flash	$0.75	$3.75	$1.50	1.0M
Gemini 3.6 Flash	$0.75	$3.75	$1.50	1.0M
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	$0.3	$2.50	$0.85	1.0M
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)	$0.25	$1.50	$0.563	66K
Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)	$0.5	$3	$1.13	131K
Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)	$2	$12	$4.50	131K

All Google API prices