Gemini 3.8 Flash costs $0.58 per task, cheapest at its intelligence level
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-09-02
Artificial Analysis' cost breakdown of Gemini 3.8 Flash:
- At $0.58 per Intelligence Index task (high reasoning), it's the cheapest they've measured at this intelligence level — but 40% up from 3.7 Flash despite unchanged per-token pricing, driven by 30% more output tokens per task and more agentic eval turns
- Cost per task falls to $0.41 on medium and $0.24 on low reasoning
- Priced at $0.75/$3.75 per 1M input/output tokens through year-end, matching 3.7 Flash's discounted pricing; cached input keeps the 90% discount
Related event: Google Launches Gemini 3.8 Flash and Cyber Variant(110 posts)→
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