Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) costs $0.58 per Intelligence Index task, the cheapest we’ve measured at this level of intelligence. This is up ~40% from Gemini 3.7 Flash despite unchanged per-token pricing, driven by a 30% increase in output tokens per task and more turns on agentic evaluations. Cost per Task falls to $0.41 with medium reasoning and $0.24 with low reasoning. Gemini 3.8 Flash is priced at $0.75/$3.75 per 1M input/output tokens until the end of the year, matching Gemini 3.7 Flash’s discounted pricing, with cached input tokens retaining the same 90% discount versus standard input
Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash, its fourth Flash model in under four months - it scores 59 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and reaches the Intelligence vs. Cost per Task Pareto frontier @GoogleDeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Flash today. With high reasoning, it- Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) costs $0.58 per Intelligence Index task, the cheapest we’ve measured at this level of intelligence. This is up ~40% from Gemini 3.7 Flash despite unchanged per-token pricing, driven by a 30% increase in output tokens per task and more turns on agentic evaluations. Cost per Task falls to $0.41 with medium reasoning and $0.24 with low reasoning. Gemini 3.8 Flash is priced at $0.75/$3.75 per 1M input/output tokens until the end of the year, matching Gemini 3.7 Flash’s discounted pricing, with cached input tokens retaining the same 90% discount versus standard input
- On high reasoning, Gemini 3.8 Flash averages ~300 output tokens per second and a Time per Task of 2.5 minutes, just ahead of GPT-5.6 Luna (max, 2.6 minutes) and GPT-5.6 Terra (max, 3.3). Compared to Gemini 3.7 Flash, higher token usage increases Time per Task from 2.2 minutes toWith high reasoning, Gemini 3.8 Flash averages 48k output tokens per task, a 30% increase compared to 3.7 Flash. On low reasoning, Gemini 3.8 Flash outputs an average of 14k tokens per task, just under GP-5.6 Sol with max reasoning (17k)On AA-Briefcase, our flagship agentic knowledge work evaluation, Gemini 3.8 Flash scores an Elo of 1213. AA-Briefcase tests models on a fully private dataset of realistic tasks across thousands of complex input files, with performance combined into a single AA-Briefcase Elo basedFull benchmark results for Gemini 3.8 Flash across high, medium and low reasoningFor further analysis, see artificialanalysis.ai/models/gemini-…
Cost per task moving 40 percent on unchanged per token pricing is the number to read twice. The rate card stopped being the price and what the model decides to write became it. I am picking a model for a nightly scheduled job right now and at list prices the same 200 runs come to
