Gemini 3.8 Flash
Google's Flash model for coding and agents, with reasoning at Flash-level latency.
Price
What the gateway charges per million tokens: what you send in, and what the model writes back.
Source: Vercel AI Gateway, checked 2026-09-25.
- Input
- $0.75per 1M tokens
- Output
- $3.75per 1M tokensOutput costs 5x the input.
Specs
How much it reads at once, how much it writes back, and how recent its knowledge is.
Source: Vercel AI Gateway, checked 2026-09-25.
- Context window
- 1M tokens1,000,000
- Max output
- 66K tokens65,535
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not listed
- Released
- Type
- Language
- Modalities
- Takes text, image, PDF, video. Returns text.
- Gateway ID
google/gemini-3.8-flash
Capabilities
What the gateway says this model supports.
Source: Vercel AI Gateway, checked 2026-09-25.
- Reasoning
- File input
- Vision
- Tool use
- Web search
- Implicit caching
- Video input
- Structured output
Data handling
What happens to your prompts, and what you have to switch on.
Source: Vercel AI Gateway, checked 2026-09-25.
ZDRSome providers
Zero data retention
Available on a paid Vercel plan through the AI Gateway, from some providers on it (you turn it on).
NTEvery provider
No training on prompts
Offered by every provider on the Vercel AI Gateway, when you turn it on.
Usage
How much people actually run it, as counted where it is served.
- requests
- 189.8M189,838,598 requests
- tokens
- 9.1T9,054,814,145,589 tokens
Counted on OpenRouter over the 24 days to 2026-09-25.
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