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Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS

Text to speech Google Verified Released Sep 22, 2026
Model ID
Price per 1M characters
from $3.00 / 1M audio tokens
Audio tokens, Flex tier
Languages
101
Voices
30
Voice cloning
Yes
Released
Sep 22, 2026

Where to run it

1 offering · prices as listed
MeterTierPrice
Gemini API (opens in a new tab) Official Global · USD gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts
InputText tokens until Dec 31, 2026 $0.50 / 1M tokens
Text tokens from Jan 1, 2027 $1.00 / 1M tokens
Text tokensBatch until Dec 31, 2026 $0.25 / 1M tokens
Text tokensFlex tier until Dec 31, 2026 $0.25 / 1M tokens
Text tokensBatch from Jan 1, 2027 $0.50 / 1M tokens
Text tokensFlex tier from Jan 1, 2027 $0.50 / 1M tokens
Text tokensPriority tier until Dec 31, 2026 $0.90 / 1M tokens
Text tokensPriority tier from Jan 1, 2027 $1.80 / 1M tokens
OutputAudio tokens until Dec 31, 2026 $6.00 / 1M tokens
Audio tokens from Jan 1, 2027 $12.00 / 1M tokens
Audio tokensBatch until Dec 31, 2026 $3.00 / 1M tokens
Audio tokensFlex tier until Dec 31, 2026 $3.00 / 1M tokens
Audio tokensBatch from Jan 1, 2027 $6.00 / 1M tokens
Audio tokensFlex tier from Jan 1, 2027 $6.00 / 1M tokens
Audio tokensPriority tier until Dec 31, 2026 $10.80 / 1M tokens
Audio tokensPriority tier from Jan 1, 2027 $21.60 / 1M tokens
Cache readStandard until Dec 31, 2026 $0.13 / 1M tokens
Standard from Jan 1, 2027 $0.25 / 1M tokens
Flex tier until Dec 31, 2026 $0.025 / 1M tokens
Flex tier from Jan 1, 2027 $0.050 / 1M tokens
Batch until Dec 31, 2026 $0.063 / 1M tokens
Batch from Jan 1, 2027 $0.13 / 1M tokens
Priority tier until Dec 31, 2026 $0.23 / 1M tokens
Priority tier from Jan 1, 2027 $0.45 / 1M tokens
  • Sep 22, 2026 Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS models Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS (gemini-3.8-flash-tts) and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS (gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts) are generally available, with a Gemini API Voices endpoint. Flash-Lite TTS is meant to replace gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview.
  1. New text to speech model

Cited scores

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