Gemini 3.8 Live Avatar Is Generally Available—Here Are the API Price and Limits
AccessAllGPT reviewed five first-party Google sources on September 27, 2026: the September 24 launch article, September 25 Google Cloud general-availability announcement, Live API documentation last updated September 25, live Agent Platform pricing table, and September 15 Gemini 3.8 Audio model card. We checked announcement date, availability, exact model ID, endpoints, modalities, protocol, pricing, context and output limits, session duration, language statements, avatar controls, watermarking and known limitations. Launch and performance statements are labeled as Google claims; API fields and prices are documented service facts; rollout guidance is AccessAllGPT analysis. We did not have a Google Cloud credential or enterprise allowlist, so we did not call the API, create an avatar, inspect a response receipt, test tool execution, verify SynthID detection or measure latency, quality, language performance, session duration or cost.
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar
Google · RetrievedReviewed: September 24, 2026 announcement date; Gemini Enterprise availability; multimodal conversation; asynchronous tool execution; 97-language claim; custom-avatar allowlist; SynthID; API link
Supports: Google announced Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar on September 24, says it is available in Gemini Enterprise, and describes near-real-time audio and video, background tool calls, 97-language transitions, preset and allowlisted custom avatars, and SynthID watermarking. These capability and quality statements are vendor claims.
Power your agents: Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is now generally available
Google Cloud · RetrievedReviewed: September 25, 2026 publication date; general availability; enterprise production positioning; features; US and EU endpoints; provisioned throughput; custom-avatar controls; SynthID; demos
Supports: Google Cloud calls Live Avatar generally available and ready for enterprise production in Gemini Enterprise. It lists web, mobile and kiosk use; asynchronous tools; live visual input; US and EU endpoints; provisioned throughput; curated avatars; allowlisted custom avatars; and SynthID. Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking remains private preview.
Gemini Live API overview
Google Cloud Documentation · RetrievedReviewed: Overview; key features; technical specifications; supported models; gemini-3.8-live availability and feature row; protocols and modalities; page update date
Supports: The documentation lists model ID gemini-3.8-live as generally available with native audio, transcriptions, voice activity detection, affective dialogue, proactive audio, tool use and Live Avatar. It documents a stateful WebSocket protocol, text/audio/image/video inputs, audio/text/avatar-video outputs, and 24 supported conversational languages. The page was last updated September 25, 2026 UTC.
Generative AI on Agent Platform pricing
Google Cloud · RetrievedReviewed: Gemini 3 standard-model pricing table; Gemini 3.8 Live API rows; modality-specific input and output prices; region; cache columns; billable-response rule
Supports: Google lists non-global Gemini 3.8 Live API prices per one million tokens: $0.75 text input, $1 image/video input, $3 audio input, $4.50 text output including response and reasoning, $12 audio output, and $1 avatar-video output. The table shows no cached-input rates and says only requests returning HTTP 200 are charged for input or output.
Gemini 3.8 Audio model card
Google DeepMind · RetrievedReviewed: Publication date; model dependencies; inputs and outputs; context and output limits; distribution; intended use; known limitations; evaluation and Frontier Safety summaries
Supports: The model card says Gemini 3.8 Audio is based on Gemini 3 Pro. For Live it lists audio, image, video and text input with up to 128K context and 64K output; with Live Avatar it lists audio, video and text output with a 24K output limit. It names hallucination, occasional slowness or timeouts, a January 2025 knowledge cutoff and only a few minutes of continuous Live Avatar interaction as limitations.