Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Context
- 1,048,576
- Max output
- 65,536
- Input / MTok
- $0.75
- Cached / MTok
- $0.075
- Output / MTok
- $3.75
- Input types
- text + image + video + audio + PDF
MULTIMODAL · AGENTS / VERIFIED 2026-10-04
Compare Google and xAI on multimodal breadth, context capacity, reasoning controls and current API economics.
LIVE VERIFIED FACTS
DECISION FACTORS
Gemini 3.8 Flash publishes the larger context window: 1,048,576 vs 500,000 tokens (2.1×).
Gemini 3.8 Flash additionally lists PDF, audio, video.
For 100K uncached input + 10K output tokens, Gemini 3.8 Flash is lower at $0.1125 vs $0.26 (2.3× difference).
Gemini 3.8 Flash: 65,536. Grok 4.7: No separate limit.
HOW TO DECIDE
Context, modalities and direct token economics are comparable from official sources. Coding quality, latency, reliability and agent success should be measured on your own acceptance tests before production routing.
Use representative prompts, files, tools and expected outputs from the workload you plan to ship.
Include retries, cached tokens, long-context rules and tool charges—not only headline input price.
Record hallucinations, tool errors, timeout behavior and human corrections alongside pass rate.
A portfolio can outperform a one-model policy when different task classes have different cost and capability needs.
INDEPENDENT EVALUATIONS
Gemini 3.8 Flash: 41 · Grok 4.7: 46
Group: artificial-analysis-v4.3.2A higher score is meaningful only within the exact comparable group shown. Under-review benchmarks are never used alone for a quality conclusion.
WHAT CHANGED
No post-baseline factual changes recorded for Gemini 3.8 Flash, Grok 4.7 since 2026-09-27.
QUICK ANSWERS
Gemini 3.8 Flash publishes the larger context window: 1,048,576 vs 500,000 tokens (2.1×).
For 100K uncached input + 10K output tokens, Gemini 3.8 Flash is lower at $0.1125 vs $0.26 (2.3× difference).
No. This page compares source-backed specifications and economics. Quality, latency and task success require workload-specific evaluation evidence.