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| 2 models | googleGoogle: Gemini 3.8 FlashRemove × | perplexityPerplexity: Decider V1.2Remove × |
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| What’s different | Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's most intelligent Flash model with significant gains from 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning. | Decider V1.2 is a new 27B checkpoint of Perplexity's decision model, succeeding Decider V1.1 27B with the same API contract. Instead of generating text, it reads content passed as state... |
| Date | Sep 2, 2026Listed | Oct 16, 2026Listed |
API prices USD · provider configuration shown below | ||
| Listed rate | $0.375 in / $1.875 out/ 1M tokensGoogle AI Studio · via OpenRouter · all routes ↗google-ai-studio/flex · tier=flex | $0.02 in / $0.00 out/ 1M tokensOpenRouter · all routes ↗ |
| Provider endpoints | 9 endpoints → | 1 endpoint → |
Specifications | ||
| Context window | 1M | 262.1K |
| Max output | 65.5K | 235.9K |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Tool calling | Supported | Not reported |
| Structured output | Supported | Not reported |
| Image input | Supported | Supported |
| Audio input | Supported | Not reported |
| Video input | Supported | Not reported |
| Reasoning | Supported | Not reported |
| Prompt caching | Supported | Not reported |