Gemini 3.8 Live

Google Gemini 3.8 real-time bidirectional Live API model for low-latency voice agents. Supports text, image, and audio input with text and audio output.

Input price
$0.675list $0.75-10%
Output price
$4.05list $4.50-10%
Context
131K
Max output
66K
Modalities
InputTextImageAudioOutputTextAudio
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Released
2026-09-15
Knowledge cutoff
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Providers

Providers that serve this model. With Auto, each request goes to the best available provider. Prices in USD per 1M tokens; stats cover the last 30 days.

Pricing

All prices for this model, by service tier.

Input
$0.675list $0.75-10%
per 1M tokens
Output
$4.05list $4.50-10%
per 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.675list $0.75-10%
per 1M tokens
Reasoning output
$4.05list $4.50-10%
per 1M tokens
Audio input
$2.70list $3.00-10%
per 1M tokens
Audio output
$10.80list $12.00-10%
per 1M tokens
Image input
$0.90list $1.00-10%
per 1M tokens
Web search
$0.0126list $0.014-10%
per request

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Capability scores are from Epoch AI’s Epoch Capabilities Index (CC BY 4.0, as of 2026-11-02), which combines dozens of benchmarks with GPT-5 set at 150. epoch.ai/eci

Price: our current input price per 1M tokens in USD, lowest across channels. Dated snapshots and resold copies of the same model are merged into one point; free models are not shown.

Shaded area: capability above and price below the median of all models. Pareto frontier: no other model is both cheaper and more capable.

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