Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Gemini 3.8 Flash: API price and specs

Field	Gemini 3.6 Flash	Gemini 3.8 Flash
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.33	$0.33
Median input, per 1M	$0.75	$0.75
Lowest output, per 1M	$1.65	$1.65
Median output, per 1M	$3.75	$3.75
Lowest unit price	—	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.66	$0.66
Context	1M	1M
Max output	66K	66K
Providers	26 +7.1%	28
Regions	EU, GLOBAL, US	EU, GLOBAL, US
Accepts	application/pdf, audio, audio/aac, audio/aiff, audio/alaw, audio/flac, audio/l16, audio/m4a, audio/mp3, audio/mpeg, audio/mulaw, audio/ogg, audio/opus, audio/wav, audio/webm, file, image, image/heic, image/heif, image/jpeg, image/png, image/webp, pdf, text, video, video/3gpp, video/avi, video/mov, video/mp4, video/mpeg, video/mpg, video/webm, video/wmv, video/x-flv	audio, file, image, pdf, text, video
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	no
Cheapest provider	kenari	kenari

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

302ai, abacus, aihubmix, aiml, cometapi, cortecs, edenai, fastrouter, github-copilot, google, google-vertex, impossibl, jiekou, kenari, kilo, meganova, ofox, opencode, openrouter, perplexity-agent, poe, requesty, trustedrouter, vercel, zenmux

Frequently asked questions

Which has the larger context, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Gemini 3.8 Flash?

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 1M tokens; Gemini 3.8 Flash: 1M tokens.

Where can I use both Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash?