Migrating from gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025 to gemini-3.8-live
What changes when you move from gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025 to gemini-3.8-live: input price +50%, output price +125%.
- Status
- Deprecated
- Shutdown
- Nov 17, 2026 at the earliest
- Time left
- 33 days
- Status
- Active
- Shutdown
- none announced
- Time left
- —
Prices
USD per 1M tokens, standard tier| Type | gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025 | gemini-3.8-live | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.50first seen October 1, 2026 · source | $0.75first seen October 1, 2026 · source | +50% |
| Output | $2.00first seen October 1, 2026 · source | $4.50first seen October 1, 2026 · source | +125% |
At 1M input and 250K output tokens a month: $1.00 on gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025, $1.875 on gemini-3.8-live (+87.5%).
Other tiers, prompt-size bands and modalities are on each model's page.
Limits
Tokens| Limit | gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025 | gemini-3.8-live | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 131,072 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | 131,072 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | 0% |
| Max output tokens | 8,192 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | 65,536 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | +700% |
Features and parameters
Compare modelsSame on both
- Structured outputs: not supported on both.gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.8-live: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Function calling: supported on both.gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.8-live: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Prompt caching: not supported on both.gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.8-live: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Batch API: not supported on both.gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.8-live: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Reasoning / thinking: supported on gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025, supported (interleaved reasoning) on gemini-3.8-live.gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.8-live: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Built-in web search: supported on both.gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.8-live: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
Not published for gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025: Image input, PDF input, Fine-tuning, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs.
Not published for gemini-3.8-live: PDF input, Fine-tuning, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs.
Free tier
gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025: Free tier, in place when tracking began (October 7, 2026) (source)
gemini-3.8-live: Free tier, in place when tracking began (October 7, 2026) (source) · All free models
Aliases
All aliasesNo aliases point at either model.
On cloud platforms
All platform dates| Model | Platform | Platform ID | Shutdown | Time left |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gemini-3.8-live | Google Cloud Vertex AI | gemini-3.8-live | not before Sep 25, 2027Active |
Read daily from each platform's own pages. The status above uses each company's own date. Time left counts to 00:00 UTC on the shutdown date, which is the evening before in ET.
Checklist
- Change the model string from
gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025togemini-3.8-live. - Re-check costs: gemini-3.8-live costs more than gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025 (input +50%, output +125%).
Compared from AIWire's published data when this page loaded. Each fact links to the page it came from. Model pages: gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025, gemini-3.8-live.