Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash
Analysis Summary
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash has a 40.9 intelligence index, a 76.3 coding index, and a 40.2 agentic index. It accepts text, image, file, audio, and video input, and supports tool use and function calling. The 1.05M-token context window is a practical advantage for long documents and codebases, while its coding capability stands out relative to its reasoning measure.
For an agency, Gemini 3.8 Flash is a strong option for coding assistance, multimodal processing, and high-throughput workflows that benefit from large context. Its agentic measure is less exceptional than its coding result, so complex autonomous tasks should be tested carefully. Listed pricing of $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens is more approachable than premium models, making it a useful balance for regular professional workloads.
Assessed September 23, 2026
Editorial notes
Gemini 3.8 Flash pairs strong coding with a 1M-token context, multimodal input, and tool calling at moderate rates, making it a practical high-throughput choice.
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DFO Verdict
Gemini 3.8 Flash pairs strong coding with a 1M-token context, multimodal input, and tool calling at moderate rates, making it a practical high-throughput choice.
Benchmarks
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How Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash compares
Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash ranks #23 of 447 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #7 of 199 for coding, #16 of 181 for agentic tasks. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 95% of the models we list. At $0.75 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 28% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.75 | $0.000750 |
| Output | $3.75 | $0.003750 |
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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.
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Frequently asked questions about Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash
How much does Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash cost?
Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash costs $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash?
Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash has a context window of 1,048,576 tokens (1M).
Is Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash ranks #7 of 199 models, placing it in the top quartile of the field for code generation and debugging.
What can Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash do?
Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash?
Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash is developed by Google and was released on September 2, 2026.