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| Attribute | Gemini 3.8 Flashgemini-3.8-flash | mai-ds-r1:freeNot in the catalogue | Gemini 4 Argongemini-4-argon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $0.75 / 1M | — | $2.00 / 1M |
| Output | $3.75 / 1M | — | $10.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $0.75 / 1M | — | $2.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $0.75 / 1M | — | $2.00 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $0.75 / 1M | — | $2.00 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | — | $0 / 1M |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 1M | — | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | — | N/A |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | Yes | — | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | — | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | — | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | — | Yes |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | — | ||
| Category | chat | — | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | — | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — | — |
| Description | |||
| Summary | Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's most intelligent Flash-class model, delivering significant improvements over Gemini 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic workflows, and complex multi-step reasoning. Designed to combine strong capability with Flash-tier efficiency, it is well suited for coding assistants, autonomous agents, and high-throughput production workflows that require responsive performance without sacrificing reasoning quality. | — | Gemini 4 Argon is Google's flagship reasoning model, built for complex software engineering, deep mathematical and scientific problem solving, and autonomous multi-step agents. Google trained it to keep context across long, multi-step tasks and to turn long documents mixing text, tables, charts and images into a single grounded output. It leads the Vals Index across finance, legal, coding and tax work, and supports long decode of up to 1M output tokens in a single response. |