Model · Gemini
Gemini 3.8 Flash: price, limits and messages on every plan
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash in llmwise: how many Gemini 3.8 Flash messages each plan gives, what counts against them, what Gemini 3.8 Flash reads, where your messages go, and what it costs at Google's API prices.
Prices and limits checked against OpenRouter's Gemini 3.8 Flash page. Updated .
Short answer
Gemini 3.8 Flash isn't in llmwise's free trial; it needs a paid plan. A paid plan gives up to 125 Gemini 3.8 Flash messages a month on Plus ($10), 250 on Pro ($20), 800 on Max ($50), 1,800 on Ultra ($100) and 4,000 on Studio ($200). Each Gemini 3.8 Flash message's price is shown before you send it.
In the news: Gemini 3.8 Flash's price doubles on January 1, 2027: what it means for you ().
What Google announced, sourced on its launch page:
- Google's footnote: the introductory price expires on December 31, 2026, and from January 1, 2027 Gemini 3.8 Flash costs $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens.
- Google's price list counts thinking tokens in the output price, so a reply that reasons at length pays the output rate for that reasoning too.
- The introductory price is the same as Gemini 3.7 Flash's, which Google released three weeks before 3.8 Flash.
Gemini 3.8 Flash on every plan
What Gemini 3.8 Flash costs in llmwise is a count, not a token bill: up to 250 a month on Pro, and it isn't in the free trial.
| Plan | Price | Gemini 3.8 Flash messages | Each, if all go to Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Not in the trial | — |
| Plus | $10 a month | Up to 125 a month | $0.08 |
| Pro | $20 a month | Up to 250 a month | $0.08 |
| Max | $50 a month | Up to 800 a month | $0.06 |
| Ultra | $100 a month | Up to 1,800 a month | $0.06 |
| Studio | $200 a month | Up to 4,000 a month | $0.05 |
Prices don't include tax, which is added where it applies and shown before you pay. A paid plan's month is one allowance every model shares, so each Gemini 3.8 Flash count is the most you get if all of it goes to Gemini 3.8 Flash, and "each" is the plan's price divided by that count. How pricing works.
Every limit is published. Paid plans also have a monthly fair-use limit on AI cost: Plus $3.75, Pro $7.50, Max $20, Ultra $42, Studio $85. Using every message on your plan at typical sizes stays under it; very large messages and heavy research use it faster. Every limit, explained.
Gemini 3.8 Flash usage limits, explained
Every limit on Gemini 3.8 Flash in llmwise is published. Here's each one, in Gemini 3.8 Flash messages.
Gemini 3.8 Flash draws on the monthly allowance every model shares: 250 Gemini 3.8 Flash messages on Pro if nothing else uses it. Each message on a smaller model leaves fewer Gemini 3.8 Flash messages, each Gemini 3.8 Flash message leaves fewer for them, and unused Gemini 3.8 Flash messages don't carry over when the billing period renews.
Long Gemini 3.8 Flash chats count more, because each Gemini 3.8 Flash reply resends the whole conversation. Past 64k tokens a Gemini 3.8 Flash reply counts as 2 messages, so Pro's 250 Gemini 3.8 Flash messages become up to 125 such replies; past 128k it counts as 4 (up to 62 Gemini 3.8 Flash replies); past 200k the Gemini 3.8 Flash chat is full.
Gemini 3.8 Flash's native context window is 1.05M tokens; llmwise stops a Gemini 3.8 Flash chat at 200k tokens, so a Gemini 3.8 Flash chat uses at most 200k of its 1.05M tokens.
A Gemini 3.8 Flash reply can run to 8,000 tokens on Plus and Pro and 16,000 on Max, Ultra, and Studio, at the same Gemini 3.8 Flash price however long it runs.
On a paid plan each web search or link read in a Gemini 3.8 Flash reply counts as 1 more Gemini 3.8 Flash message.
A $10 top-up adds up to 200 more Gemini 3.8 Flash messages, valid 12 months, spent once the plan's own Gemini 3.8 Flash count is gone.
Gemini 3.8 Flash replies share every plan's soft cap of 100 replies an hour with the other models.
What Gemini 3.8 Flash reads and does
| Made by | |
|---|---|
| Model at OpenRouter | google/gemini-3.8-flash |
| Context window | 1.05M tokens |
| Longest chat in llmwise | 200k tokens |
| Images you attach | Reads them |
| PDFs you attach | Reads the whole file, charts and layout included |
| Tools (search, documents, code, apps) | Yes |
| Reasoning | On, at low effort |
| API price, per million tokens | $0.75 in, $3.75 out (an introductory price, through December 31, 2026) |
| A typical message at API prices | $0.0056 |
| On Pro | Up to 250 a month |
Where your Gemini 3.8 Flash messages go
A Gemini 3.8 Flash message goes to Google directly when llmwise can reach Google, or through OpenRouter when it can't.
If Google fails before a Gemini 3.8 Flash reply starts (an overload, a server error, a dropped connection), llmwise resends the Gemini 3.8 Flash request through OpenRouter, to endpoints that, according to OpenRouter, don't store prompts for their own use or train on them.
The Privacy Policy lists every company a Gemini 3.8 Flash message can reach.
Gemini 3.8 Flash's API price, and what a message costs
Gemini 3.8 Flash's API price is $0.75 per million tokens in and $3.75 out: Google's list price, an introductory price, through December 31, 2026. At that price a typical Gemini 3.8 Flash message (4,000 tokens in, 700 out) costs about $0.0056.
In llmwise a Gemini 3.8 Flash message isn't billed by the token: it's one of up to 250 Gemini 3.8 Flash messages a month on Pro, however long the Gemini 3.8 Flash reply runs.
What Gemini 3.8 Flash's replies cost in our test runs, job by job, and Gemini 3.8 Flash beside the rest of its family: Gemini 3.8 Flash pricing: API price, cost per message and plans.
When to use Gemini 3.8 Flash, and when a cheaper model will do
llmwise's catalog describes Gemini 3.8 Flash as “Fast multimodal model”. No benchmark scores here: ask Gemini 3.8 Flash your own question, then switch the picker to another model in the same chat, which sees Gemini 3.8 Flash's answer too.
When a question doesn't need Gemini 3.8 Flash, these read the same attachments, whole PDFs included, and leave more of the month for Gemini 3.8 Flash:
Claude Haiku 5.5 (Anthropic): 60 a day on Pro, against Gemini 3.8 Flash's 250.
GPT-6 Luna (OpenAI): 60 a day on Pro, against Gemini 3.8 Flash's 250.
Same count as Gemini 3.8 Flash on every plan: Claude Haiku 4.5, DeepSeek V4 Pro, Grok 4.7, GLM 5.3 and Mistral Large 4.
Gemini 3.8 Flash in our test runs
Gemini 3.8 Flash passed 46 of our 50 test prompts, sent through llmwise's own pipeline and checked the same way for every model.
- Coding5 of 5 passed
- Writing3 of 5 passed
- Math5 of 5 passed
- Summarization5 of 5 passed
- Data analysis4 of 5 passed
- Customer support4 of 5 passed
- Translation5 of 5 passed
- SQL5 of 5 passed
- RAG and answering from documents5 of 5 passed
- Agents and tool use5 of 5 passed
How Gemini 3.8 Flash began its reply to our first writing prompt, “Write a LinkedIn post of 100 to 150 words announcing that our small bakery, Crumb & Co., opens a second shop in Leeds on 14 November. Mention the free coffee…”:
Big news from our kitchen: Crumb & Co. is growing. On Friday, 14 November, we are opening the doors to our second shop in Leeds. When we first started baking, we never imagined we’d have the chance to bring our sourdough, pastries, and treats to a whole new neighbourhood, and we are so grateful for the support that made this possible. To celebrate, opening day coffee is on us. Whether you’re grabbing a flat white on your morning commute or stopping by to check out the new counter, we’d love to see you. Come say hello, meet the team, and pick up your favourite loaf. We can’t wait to welcome you in and become part of the Leeds community. See you on the 14th!
Questions
Is Gemini 3.8 Flash free in llmwise?
No. Gemini 3.8 Flash isn't in llmwise's free trial, which is Claude Haiku 5.5 alone. Pro ($20 a month) gets up to 250 Gemini 3.8 Flash messages a month.
What are Gemini 3.8 Flash's usage limits in llmwise?
Gemini 3.8 Flash has a published monthly count on each paid plan (up to 250 Gemini 3.8 Flash messages a month on Pro), shared with the other models. A long Gemini 3.8 Flash chat counts each reply as 2 Gemini 3.8 Flash messages past 64k tokens and 4 past 128k.
What happens when my Gemini 3.8 Flash messages run out?
Your Gemini 3.8 Flash count resets when your billing period renews. Until then, the everyday models keep answering on their own daily count, and a $10 top-up adds up to 200 more Gemini 3.8 Flash messages.
How much context does Gemini 3.8 Flash have in llmwise?
1.05M tokens is Gemini 3.8 Flash's native context window. A Gemini 3.8 Flash chat in llmwise stops at 200k tokens, and past 64k each Gemini 3.8 Flash reply counts as more than one message, so a new Gemini 3.8 Flash chat for each new task goes further.
Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Kimi, GLM, and Mistral, in one chat.
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