---
title: "OpenRouter google/gemini-3.8-flash price change: 2026-10-21 | Harbyn"
description: "OpenRouter google/gemini-3.8-flash price change, announced Oct 21, 2026."
canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-21-google-gemini-3-8-flash-price-change"
last-updated: 2026-10-25
---

# OpenRouter google/gemini-3.8-flash price change

Markdown version of <https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-21-google-gemini-3-8-flash-price-change>.

Pricing - OpenRouter. low severity. In effect.

OpenRouter list price for google/gemini-3.8-flash changed: input 0.75 to 0.825 USD per 1M tokens; output 3.75 to 4.125 USD per 1M tokens.

## Facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | [OpenRouter](https://harbyn.com/vendors/openrouter.md) |
| Product | models |
| Kind | Pricing |
| Severity | low |
| Status | In effect |
| Announced | Oct 21, 2026 (undated by the vendor; the day it first appeared) |
| Added to Harbyn | Oct 25, 2026 |
| Lead time | No dated deadline |
| Model IDs | `google/gemini-3.8-flash` |
| Review | Reviewed by a person, extracted by a deterministic parser |

## Price change

| Item | Unit | Before | After |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| google/gemini-3.8-flash | per 1M input tokens | USD 0.75 | USD 0.825 |
| google/gemini-3.8-flash | per 1M output tokens | USD 3.75 | USD 4.125 |

## Find it in your code

```sh
npx harbyn scan
```

The scanner reads your repository on your machine and reports every file and line that uses the identifiers above. Nothing leaves your machine.

## Sources

Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot.

- <https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models> (spec, fetched 2026-10-21 14:31 UTC, sha256 `b17fc211fe65e4347e6808adbb2d35b4d2106aca90e690a81fcc5e66c6b89c9f`)
- <https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models> (spec, fetched 2026-09-26 05:06 UTC, sha256 `4ff7e66804a2645657423bf190f64ea555454e14783b10fedcc7debbd34dda00`)

## Related changes

### More from OpenRouter

- [nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-70b and 1 more expire 2026-11-02](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-21-nousresearch-hermes-3-llama-3-1-70b-expires-2026-11-02.md) (Retirement, effective Nov 2, 2026)
- [qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct price change](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-21-qwen-qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct-price-change.md) (Pricing, announced Oct 21, 2026)
- [z-ai/glm-5.3-flash:batch price change](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-21-z-ai-glm-5-3-flash-batch-price-change.md) (Pricing, announced Oct 21, 2026)
- [deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash:batch price change](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-22-deepseek-deepseek-v4-1-flash-batch-price-change.md) (Pricing, announced Oct 22, 2026)

### Changes at other vendors

- [Together AI: lower serverless pricing for Qwen3.7-Max and Qwen3.8-Flash](https://harbyn.com/changes/together/2026-09-22-qwen-serverless-price-cut.md) (effective Sep 22, 2026)

[All upcoming deadlines](https://harbyn.com/deadlines.md)