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Every host for Gemini 3.8 Flash

×2.0 between cheapest and dearest input
HostBlendedInputOutputCachedPrecisionUptime
Google
$0.75
$0.375$1.88$0.038—71.0%
Google AI Studio
$0.75
$0.375$1.88$0.038—100.0%
Google Vertex
$1.50
$0.75$3.75$0.075——
Perplexity
$1.50
$0.75$3.75$0.075——
Blended price: three input tokens for every output token, per 1M tokens.

Cheapest price over time

Per 1M tokens
Cheapest input and output price for Gemini 3.8 Flash over timeFree$1.00$2.00$3.00$4.002 Sept27 Sept23 Oct$1.88$0.375
  • Input
  • Output
The cheapest list price at any host on each day it changed.

What your workload costs

A month, at every host
Cheapest a month
$300.00
Google
  • Google
    $300.00
  • Google AI Studio
    $300.00
  • Google Vertex
    $600.00
  • Perplexity
    $600.00

Rent GPUs or pay per token?

Break-even
Renting the GPUs
$16,878/mo
Break-even volume
22.5B tokens/mo
Needed around the clock
8.6K tok/s

8 × H100 cost $16,878 a month. The cheapest API (Google) charges $0.75 per 1M blended tokens, so the GPUs only pay off above 22.5B tokens a month: the box must serve 8.6K tokens a second, every second.

GPU price: cheapest on-demand offer per GPU-hour × 730 hours. No throughput is assumed: it depends on the model size, precision, batch size and serving software, so measure yours. Power, storage, egress and engineering time are not included.

LMArena rating over time

Text leaderboard
LMArena text rating of Gemini 3.8 Flash over time1,4941,4961,4982 Sept26 Sept20 Oct1,499

Rated about the same, by price

Blended, per 1M tokens

Quality data: LMArena (CC BY 4.0), Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0). Prices: OpenRouter, LiteLLM (MIT), provider pages. List prices in US dollars before discounts and taxes; other currencies converted at the European Central Bank reference rate. The figures on these pages are free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with a link to this page.