Gemini 3.8 Flash pricing
What Gemini 3.8 Flash costs per million tokens: input, output, cache read and cache write, with batch and long-context rates where the provider publishes them. Every figure is the rate Vigil's proxy bills with, read from the provider's own page.
Prices checked 9 Oct 2026 against ai.google.dev. All shown rates agreed with the page. Google’s page states the doubling on 1 January 2027 that the second row shows.
Gemini 3.8 Flash on Gemini Developer API
Model id gemini-3.8-flash. Verified against the provider's published price; registry row retrieved 2026-09-11 from ai.google.dev.
| Applies | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| until 1 Jan 2027 | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 | — |
| from 1 Jan 2027 published "Standard" pricing step — reverify the page still says so before it fires | $1.50 | $7.50 | $0.150 | — |
USD per 1M tokens. A dash means the provider publishes no rate for that dimension, so the proxy declines to price it.
- Endpoint classes: global.
- on_demand: the standard rate.
- batch: 50% below the standard rate.
- No long-context tier: the standard rate applies at any prompt size.
Price a Gemini 3.8 Flash call
Gemini 3.8 Flash on Gemini Developer API, standard rate, priced now
Cache writes, batch, endpoint class and monthly volume: AI token calculator
Questions
- What does a cache read cost on Gemini 3.8 Flash?
- A cache-read token on Gemini Developer API costs $0.075 per 1M tokens, against $0.75 for an ordinary input token. An ordinary input token costs 10 times as much. No cache-write rate is published for this model.
- Does Gemini 3.8 Flash have a batch price?
- Yes: batch: 50% below the standard rate. The batch rate applies to the whole request; the proxy prices a batch call from the same row with that factor applied.
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