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Why use Gemini 3.8 Live on Google AI Studio?
Google AI Studio offers Gemini 3.8 Live with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.75/1M input tokens. Google AI Studio is a model prototyping environment and API access point for Gemini models, offering an inference playground for developers to test and build AI applications.
Setup recipe
Python + curlpip install google-genaiexport GOOGLE_API_KEY=...import os
from google import genai
client = genai.Client(api_key=os.environ["GOOGLE_API_KEY"])
response = client.models.generate_content(gemini-3.8-liveRequest example
import os
from google import genai
client = genai.Client(api_key=os.environ["GOOGLE_API_KEY"])
response = client.models.generate_content(
model="gemini-3.8-live",
contents="Hello"
)
print(response.text)Gotchas
- Use the model name directly, e.g. "gemini-2.0-flash", "gemini-1.5-pro", or "gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06".
- The examples expect GOOGLE_API_KEY; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.75 |
| Output tokens | $4.50 |
| Audio input | $3.00 |
Capabilities
About Gemini 3.8 Live
Gemini 3.8 Live (API model code gemini-3.8-live) is Google DeepMind's low-latency native speech-to-speech / Live API model for real-time voice agents and dialogue, announced September 15, 2026 (blog publish ~17:00 UTC). First-party AI.dev model page: inputs text/images/audio/video; outputs text and audio; input limit 131,072 tokens; output limit 65,536; Live API supported; function calling supported; interleaved reasoning (Thinking) supported; search grounding supported; structured outputs / caching / code execution / batch not supported. Stable id gemini-3.8-live.