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| Attribute | Universal-3.5 Prouniversal-3-5-pro | Gemini 3.8 Flashgemini-3.8-flash | mai-ds-r1:freeNot in the catalogue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | — Not priced per input token | $0.75 / 1M | — |
| Output | — Not priced per output token | $3.75 / 1M | — |
| Cache Write (5m) | Not applicable | $0.75 / 1M | — |
| Cache Write (1h) | Not applicable | $0.75 / 1M | — |
| Cache Read | Not applicable | $0.75 / 1M | — |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | — |
| Context | |||
| Max context | N/A | 1M | — |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | — |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | No | Yes | — |
| Function Calling | No | Yes | — |
| JSON Mode | No | Yes | — |
| Streaming | No | Yes | — |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | AssemblyAI | — | |
| Category | voice | chat | — |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go | — |
| Released | 2026-09-22 | — | — |
| Description | |||
| Summary | AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro speech-to-text. Billed per second of audio. | 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. | — |