Gemini 3.8 Live

Why teams choose it

Tradeoffs to know

• This is not Gemini 3.8 Flash and not Gemini 3.5 Transcribe. Flash is the text/coding workhorse; Transcribe is speech-to-text only.
• Caching, code execution, file search, structured outputs, image generation, Maps grounding, URL context, and Batch API are documented as unsupported on this card.

When not to use this

• Do not invent a ChatGPT-style mini Live ID. Extended Thinking is a separate model code when you need background reasoning.
• Not ideal for simple tasks where cheaper models in the same lineup are good enough.
• Avoid for latency-sensitive real-time chat when raw response speed outweighs reasoning depth.

Technical specs

Inputs

text, image, audio, video

Outputs

audio, text

Capabilities

full-duplex voice, speech-to-speech, interleaved reasoning, asynchronous function calling, visual grounding, search grounding, multilingual live dialogue, audio generation

License

Proprietary API

Model string

gemini-3-8-live

Benchmarks

{
  "api_id": "gemini-3.8-live",
  "source": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.8-live",
  "context_tokens": 131072,
  "vendor_reported": true,
  "max_output_tokens": 65536,
  "audio_input_usd_per_minute": 0.005,
  "audio_output_usd_per_minute": 0.018
}