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Gemini 3.8 Flash

Generally available Gemini 3 Flash model (Sept 2026) for software engineering, agents and enterprise workflows. Text, image, video, audio and PDF input, text output, 1,048,576-token input and 65,536-token output limits.

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Key specs

Provider
Google
Family
Gemini 3
API identifier
gemini-3.8-flash
Availability
Available
Release date
2026-09-02
License
Proprietary (Gemini API Additional Terms of Service)
Context window
1,048,576 tokens
Max output
65,536 tokens
Knowledge cutoff
March 2026
API access
Yes
Consumer app
Yes

Capabilities

Inputs

  • Text input Yes
  • Image input Yes
  • Audio input Yes
  • Video input Yes
  • File input Yes PDF input

Outputs

  • Text output Yes
  • Image output No Image generation: not supported
  • Audio output No Audio generation: not supported

Features

  • Reasoning Native Thinking on by default (medium); thinking_level low, medium or high. The model page states that minimal is not supported and returns an error; no setting to turn thinking off is documented
  • Tool calling Yes Function calling supported
  • Web search Yes Grounding with Google Search supported (billed per search request)

"Unknown" means we have not verified this capability yet; it does not mean the model lacks it.

DimensionTierPriceSinceVerifiedSource
Input tokens base $0.75 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12 2026-10-25 Gemini Developer API pricing Standard, paid tier. Introductory price through 2026-12-31; $1.50 from 2027-01-01
Cached input tokens base $0.075 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12 2026-10-25 Gemini Developer API pricing Context caching price. Introductory price through 2026-12-31; $0.15 from 2027-01-01
Cache storage base $0.50 per 1M tokens per hour 2026-10-12 2026-10-25 Gemini Developer API pricing Context caching storage price (per 1M tokens per hour). Introductory price through 2026-12-31; $1.00 from 2027-01-01
Output tokens base $3.75 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12 2026-10-25 Gemini Developer API pricing Includes thinking tokens. Introductory price through 2026-12-31; $7.50 from 2027-01-01
Batch input tokens base $0.375 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12 2026-10-25 Gemini Developer API pricing Batch API price as listed on pricing page (50% of Standard). Introductory price through 2026-12-31; $0.75 from 2027-01-01
Batch output tokens base $1.875 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12 2026-10-25 Gemini Developer API pricing Batch API price as listed on pricing page (50% of Standard), includes thinking tokens. Introductory price through 2026-12-31; $3.75 from 2027-01-01
Tool and search requests Grounding with Google Maps $14.00 per 1,000 requests 2026-10-12 2026-10-25 Gemini Developer API pricing Paid tier: 5,000 free requests per month (shared across all Gemini 3 and newer models), then USD 14 per 1,000 search queries
Grounding with Google Search $14.00 per 1,000 requests 2026-10-12 2026-10-25 Gemini Developer API pricing Paid tier: 5,000 free search requests per month (shared across all Gemini 3 and newer models), then this price; each Google Search query triggered by a request is charged

Prices are shown in the currency the provider publishes; we never convert currencies.

Price history (8 entries)
DimensionTierPriceFromUntil
Input tokensbase$0.75 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12current
Cached input tokensbase$0.075 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12current
Cache storagebase$0.50 per 1M tokens per hour 2026-10-12current
Output tokensbase$3.75 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12current
Batch input tokensbase$0.375 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12current
Batch output tokensbase$1.875 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12current
Tool and search requestsGrounding with Google Maps$14.00 per 1,000 requests 2026-10-12current
Tool and search requestsGrounding with Google Search$14.00 per 1,000 requests 2026-10-12current

Benchmarks

BenchmarkSettingScoreReported byMeasuredVerifiedSource
AutomationBench % tasks completed correctly, higher is better v1.0.6; high effort 29.68 % Third party — 2026-10-25 AutomationBench AI benchmark leaderboard (Zapier)
v1.0.6; medium effort 29.68 % Third party — 2026-10-25 AutomationBench AI benchmark leaderboard (Zapier)
CharXiv Reasoning accuracy %, higher is better reasoning questions; no tools; effort not stated 86.2 % Self-reported — 2026-10-25 Gemini 3.8 Flash model card - Google DeepMind
DeepSWE v1.1 % resolved (pass@1), higher is better v1.1; high effort; mini-swe-agent harness 73.7 % Self-reported — 2026-10-25 Gemini 3.8 Flash model card - Google DeepMind
v1.1; high effort; mini-swe-agent harness 74 % Third party — 2026-10-25 DeepSWE leaderboard (Datacurve)
v1.1; medium effort; mini-swe-agent harness 71 % Third party — 2026-10-25 DeepSWE leaderboard (Datacurve)
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2) accuracy %, higher is better Tiers 1-3 v2; high effort; Epoch harness (Python tool) 68.4 % Third party 2026-09-02 2026-10-25 FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2) leaderboard (Epoch AI)
GDPval-AA v2.1 Elo, higher is better v2.1; high effort; Artificial Analysis Stirrup agent harness 1,436 Elo Third party 2026-10-25 2026-10-25 GDPval-AA v2.1 Leaderboard (Artificial Analysis)
v2.1; low effort; Artificial Analysis Stirrup agent harness 1,307 Elo Third party 2026-10-25 2026-10-25 GDPval-AA v2.1 Leaderboard (Artificial Analysis)
v2.1; medium effort; Artificial Analysis Stirrup agent harness 1,423 Elo Third party 2026-10-25 2026-10-25 GDPval-AA v2.1 Leaderboard (Artificial Analysis)
Humanity's Last Exam accuracy %, higher is better effort not shown; Scale Labs harness, o3-mini judge; tools not stated 44.52 % Third party — 2026-10-25 Humanity's Last Exam leaderboard (Scale Labs)
settings not stated (tools, effort, judge and subset not given) 45.4 % Self-reported — 2026-10-25 Developer's guide to Gemini 3.8 Flash (Google Cloud)
OSWorld 2.0 % tasks completed, higher is better release before the 2026-08-08 patch, set not specified, partial score; batch tool; effort not stated; max 500 steps, best of 3 runs 59 % Self-reported — 2026-10-25 Gemini 3.8 Flash model card - Google DeepMind
Terminal-Bench 4.0 % tasks resolved, higher is better high effort; mini-SWE-agent harness 19.1 % Third party — 2026-10-25 Terminal-Bench 4.0 leaderboard (tbench.ai)
Text Arena Arena score, higher is better Overall, style control on; high effort 1,496 Third party 2026-10-23 2026-10-25 Text Arena leaderboard (Arena)
AutomationBench caveats:

Leaderboard versions (for example 1.0.5 and 1.0.6) are not comparable. Some results use fallback routing for refused steps: for "Claude Fable 5.1 (with Opus 5 Fallback)", Opus 5 handled 260 of 657 tasks. Artificial Analysis runs a separate leaderboard, AutomationBench-AA, which uses a guardrail-adjusted metric; its scores are not comparable with Zapier's. The partial_credit metric is for diagnostics only. The leaderboard shows no per-row evaluation dates.

CharXiv Reasoning caveats:

There is no maintained public leaderboard (the project site says it is under construction), so almost all current numbers are self-reported by providers. Results with tools such as a code interpreter are much higher than without: Alibaba reports 83.7% without and 90.2% with tools for Qwen3.8-27B. Top models now exceed the human baseline, so differences at the top are small and may reflect label noise. Descriptive-question scores are a different metric and must not be recorded here.

DeepSWE v1.1 caveats:

The official leaderboard uses mini-swe-agent for all models and shows whole-number percentages with margins of about ±1 to ±6 points. Providers often report scores from their own scaffolds or effort settings; DeepSeek reports 65.5% to 74.2% for the same model depending on the scaffold. DeepSWE v1 scores are not comparable with v1.1. With only 113 tasks, small differences are within noise.

FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2) caveats:

FrontierMath was developed with funding from OpenAI, which has exclusive access to a subset of the problems. Scores from v1 and from Tier 4 (a separate 43-problem expansion set) are not comparable with Tiers 1-3 (v2). The best models score about 94%, so the benchmark separates mid-size models better than it separates frontier models. Epoch's numbers come from its own harness (Python tool, 1M-token limit), which can differ from providers' internal setups. Margins are about ±1.4 to ±2.6 points.

GDPval-AA v2.1 caveats:

Elo is a relative rating: values change as models are added and the scale is re-anchored, so always store the date a rating was read. For example, Anthropic's launch page gives 1846 for Claude Opus 5.5, while the leaderboard on 2026-10-12 shows 1866 (Max, Default Fallback). Earlier versions (Google cites "GDPVal-AA v2") are not comparable. Judging is done by an LLM, not by human experts. Anthropic models are listed with "Default Fallback", meaning refused steps are routed to a fallback model. AA-Briefcase and GDP.pdf are separate evaluations.

Humanity's Last Exam caveats:

Results differ a lot by setting: with tools versus without tools (Anthropic reports 45.9% without tools and 57.4% with tools for Claude Haiku 5.5), and the full set versus the text-only subset. Providers use different judge models and harnesses (Scale uses o3-mini; Alibaba states GPT-4o). Derived sets such as HLE-Verified (a third-party revision with 1,811 scored items), HLE-Rolling and HLE-Diamond are different item sets and are not comparable. The questions are public, so contamination is possible, and community reviews have reported flawed items.

OSWorld 2.0 caveats:

Numbers are only comparable when release, task set (full or offline), metric (binary or partial), step budget (150, 300 or 500) and agent approach (standard or batch tool calls) all match. Providers usually quote partial scores, which are much higher than binary completion. Claude Opus 5 at max effort on v2.1 scores 44.33% binary and 77.67% partial. The verified leaderboard is run by the maintainers and covers few current models, so most numbers are self-reported. The original OSWorld and OSWorld-Verified (369 tasks) are a different benchmark and are not recorded here.

Terminal-Bench 4.0 caveats:

Scores depend heavily on the agent harness (for example Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build or mini-SWE-agent) and on the reasoning effort, so the same model appears several times on the leaderboard. Leaderboard rows are often submitted by the organisation that builds the agent. Providers' own runs can differ from the leaderboard: Anthropic reports 66.4% for Claude Opus 5.5 at max effort, while the leaderboard lists 64.8% ± 3.1%. Versions 2.0, 2.1 and 3.0 and Artificial Analysis' "Terminal-Bench Hard" use different task sets and are not comparable with 4.0. Margins are about ±3 points.

Text Arena caveats:

Scores measure voter preference, which can be influenced by answer style and length. The leaderboard offers a style-control adjustment, so record which view was used. Scores shift with every update, so a value is only meaningful together with its leaderboard date. Entries marked "Preliminary" or with few votes have wide confidence intervals. The same model can appear several times with different reasoning-effort suffixes (for example -high or -max). Category views (Coding, Math, Creative Writing and others) are different rankings from Overall.

One row per result, without rank numbers: each result was measured under its own setting (effort level, harness, tools, test version), as stated by the source, and scores compare only within the same setting. Self-reported results come from the provider and have not been reproduced independently.

Rankings

Derived from our published ranking snapshots; each ranking explains its criteria and weights.

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Guides

About Gemini 3.8 Flash

Gemini 3.8 Flash (gemini-3.8-flash) became generally available in the Gemini API on 2 September 2026 and is the newest Flash model in the Gemini 3 series. Google positions it for long-horizon software engineering, autonomous agents and complex enterprise workflows. It accepts text, image, video, audio and PDF input and returns text. Thinking is on by default at the medium level; low and high are also available, and the minimal level is not supported.

Strengths and weaknesses

Strengths

  • 1,048,576-token input context and 65,536-token output limit
  • Accepts text, image, video, audio and PDF input
  • Supports function calling, code execution, file search, Google Search and Google Maps grounding, URL context, structured outputs and computer use (preview)
  • Available via Batch, Flex and Priority inference; Batch token prices are 50% of Standard

Weaknesses

  • Text output only; no image or audio generation
  • The minimal thinking level is not supported, and Google states the model can use more tokens on longer running and complex tasks
  • Current prices are introductory until 2026-12-31; Standard list prices double from 2027-01-01 ($1.50 input / $7.50 output per 1M tokens)

Sources

  1. Gemini 3.8 Flash | Gemini API
  2. Gemini deprecations
  3. Gemini 3.8 Flash model card - Google DeepMind
  4. Gemini API Additional Terms of Service | Google AI for Developers
  5. Gemini thinking | Gemini API
  6. Gemini Developer API pricing
  7. Terminal-Bench 4.0 leaderboard (tbench.ai)
  8. DeepSWE leaderboard (Datacurve)
  9. Developer's guide to Gemini 3.8 Flash (Google Cloud)
  10. Humanity's Last Exam leaderboard (Scale Labs)
  11. FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2) leaderboard (Epoch AI)
  12. GDPval-AA v2.1 Leaderboard (Artificial Analysis)
  13. AutomationBench AI benchmark leaderboard (Zapier)
  14. Text Arena leaderboard (Arena)

Last verified Page updated 2026-10-26