Gemini 3.8 Flash

Why teams choose it

Tradeoffs to know

• Introductory price expires December 31, 2026; list price becomes $1.50/$7.50 on January 1, 2027.
• Knowledge cutoff is March 2026 in some domains and January 2025 in others; confirm live retrieval if freshness matters.
• This is not Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber; public Flash keeps CBRN and cyber-offense safeguards.

When not to use this

• Not ideal for sprawling research or brittle multi-hop reasoning unless you constrain scope tightly.
• Avoid for regulated or high-stakes outputs without evaluations that mimic your tooling, data, and review process.
• Promote traffic to heavier tiers inside the family when workflows need richer tools and longer horizons.

Technical specs

Inputs

text, image, audio, video

Outputs

text

Capabilities

software engineering, agentic workflows, multimodal reasoning, long context, adjustable effort, computer use

License

Proprietary API

Model string

gemini-3-8-flash

Benchmarks

{
  "source": "https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-cyber/",
  "hle_verified": 54.9,
  "context_tokens": 1000000,
  "vendor_reported": true,
  "max_output_tokens": 64000
}