AI Daily Insights No. 69 · October 12, 2026
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Gemini 3.8 Flash API pricing

Gemini · checked against the official price page on 2026-10-12

Current price

USD per million tokens.

Input0.75
Input (cache hit)0.075
Output3.75

Through 2026-12-31; from 2027-01-01 $1.50 input, $0.15 cached, $7.50 output

Official price page ↗

What it costs

At the prices above, with no cache hits. Models priced in USD are converted at 1 USD = 6.733 CNY (PBoC central parity, 2026-10-09).

10M input and 2M output tokens a month$15 (about ¥101)
100M input and 20M output tokens a month$150 (about ¥1,010)
1000M input and 200M output tokens a month$1,500 (about ¥10,100)

A single call with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about $0.0034; ten thousand such calls cost about $33.75 (about ¥227).

For your own usage: API cost calculator

Where it ranks

Ordered by the monthly cost of 100M input and 20M output tokens, cheapest first, Gemini 3.8 Flash is number 9 of 21 models. Models priced in USD are converted at 1 USD = 6.733 CNY (PBoC central parity, 2026-10-09).

1. OpenAI gpt-6-luna135 CNY / month
2. Anthropic Claude Haiku 5.5135 CNY / month
3. Zhipu GLM-5.3-Flash136 CNY / month
4. DeepSeek deepseek-flash270 CNY / month
5. Qwen qwen3.7-plus360 CNY / month
6. MiniMax MiniMax-M3378 CNY / month
7. MiniMax MiniMax-M2.7378 CNY / month
8. Google Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite539 CNY / month
9. Google Gemini 3.8 Flash1,010 CNY / month
10. DeepSeek deepseek-v4-pro1,080 CNY / month
11. Kimi kimi-k2.7-code1,190 CNY / month
12. Kimi kimi-k2.61,190 CNY / month
13. Zhipu GLM-5.31,360 CNY / month
14. Qwen qwen3.8-max1,920 CNY / month
15. OpenAI gpt-6.1-sol2,693 CNY / month
16. Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.52,693 CNY / month
17. Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview2,963 CNY / month
18. Kimi kimi-k34,000 CNY / month
19. Anthropic Claude Opus 5.55,386 CNY / month
20. OpenAI gpt-6-astra13,466 CNY / month
21. Anthropic Claude Fable 5.113,466 CNY / month

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