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| Attribute | Gemini 3.8 Flashgemini-3.8-flash | Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image | GLM 5.3glm-5.3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $0.75 / 1M | — | $1.40 / 1M |
| Output | $3.75 / 1M | — | $4.40 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $0.75 / 1M | Not applicable | $1.40 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $0.75 / 1M | Not applicable | $1.40 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $0.75 / 1M | Not applicable | $1.40 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | — | $0 / 1M |
| Request | — | $0.7754 / request | — |
| Billing | — | Pay Per Request | — |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 1M | 66K | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | Yes | Yes | No |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | No | Yes |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | Z.AI | ||
| Category | chat | image | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay Per Request | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — | — |
| Description | |||
| Summary | 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. | Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) is Google's fastest and most cost-efficient multimodal image generation model, designed for high-throughput visual workflows and real-time applications. It supports text-to-image generation, image editing, and multi-image composition through a unified API, while also producing text outputs alongside images. Delivering image generation in approximately 4 seconds, it combines fast inference with strong character consistency, precise editing, and real-world knowledge. The model generates 1K-resolution images across 14 aspect ratios and embeds an invisible SynthID watermark in all outputs. Optimized for the best balance of quality, speed, and cost, Nano Banana 2 Lite is ideal for prototyping, developer pipelines, and large-scale visual content generation. | GLM-5.3 is Z.ai's large-scale reasoning model designed for complex software engineering and long-horizon agentic workflows. It supports text input and output with a 1M-token context window, enabling sustained reasoning across large codebases and extended multi-step tasks. Building on GLM-5.2, it delivers stronger coding performance while improving the balance between capability and token efficiency, making it well suited for autonomous coding agents, large-scale engineering workflows, and complex task execution. |