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Gemini 3.8 Flash now available on AI Gateway

Gemini 3.8 Flash brings multimodal input, tool calling, web search, and default reasoning to coding agents through Vercel. Its temporary 50% discount runs through December 31.

Vercel · Sep 2, 2026
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Google’s **Gemini 3.8 Flash** is now on Vercel AI Gateway with a **1M-token context window** and a 65,536-token output limit. It accepts text, images, PDFs, and video, and supports tool calls and web search.

Practical Implication

Builders can select google/gemini-3.8-flash in connected coding agents. Thinking is enabled by default, so test its latency, token use, and behavior on representative repository tasks before changing a production routing default.

Agent-Ready Context
Google’s **Gemini 3.8 Flash** is now on Vercel AI Gateway with a **1M-token context window** and a 65,536-token output limit. It accepts text, images, PDFs, and video, and supports tool calls and web search.

Builders can select google/gemini-3.8-flash in connected coding agents. Thinking is enabled by default, so test its latency, token use, and behavior on representative repository tasks before changing a production routing default.

Vercel says it improves software engineering, agent work, and multi-step reasoning at the prior Flash model’s speed and cost, but supplies no evaluation results here. The advertised **50% discount ends December 31**.
Connected Context · Feed7 Judgment

This adds another million-token, multimodal Flash route to the same coding-agent model pool, but does not resolve selection among neighboring models. Its tool calls, web search, and large output allowance broaden the test surface; the absent evaluation data and default thinking make repository-matched measurements of quality, latency, and token use the deciding evidence, with the temporary discount separated from durable routing economics.

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Uncertainty
Vercel says it improves software engineering, agent work, and multi-step reasoning at the prior Flash model’s speed and cost, but supplies no evaluation results here. The advertised **50% discount ends December 31**.