Model catalogue · Google
Gemini Flash
Vendor: gemini-3.8-flash, as of 29 September 2026
The fast general-purpose model from Google's Gemini family: it reads long documents in one pass, summarises them and answers follow-up questions on the same text without it having to be uploaded again. The examined route is Google Vertex AI, and on it the contractual chain is closed: the platform operator's confidentiality agreement under section 203 of the German Criminal Code is signed, service-bound for all models on the platform, with the undertaking under section 203(4) ahead of it. Because a US group remains in the chain, the third-country module is mandatory.
Everything section 203 requires is settled, including the provider's confidentiality undertaking, and nothing is stored at the provider, apart from a technical cache of a few minutes for Claude (zero retention). You do not have to clarify anything further.
The operator bills separately - input USD 0.825 · output USD 4.125. The figure above is the blend of the two, weighted three quarters input to one quarter output, as it arises in a firm. Charged at the vendor's list price, without a mark-up.
Google's list price in US dollars. Invoiced in euros at the European Central Bank reference rate on the last business day of the billing month, without a mark-up.
Announced price change from 1 January 2027: USD 3.30 per million tokens
The providers set these prices; they can change at any time, and our figures may contain errors. The list price in force at the time is authoritative.
What it is good for
- Large context window for files, tables and receipts
- Maximum no-persistence configuration available at the EU endpoint (no caching, no prompt logging for abuse monitoring; automated detection keeps running)
- The abuse monitoring exception is already in place for the Gosign project
Where it stops
- The abuse monitoring exception is project-bound - it has to be applied for again per customer project, and the section 203 agreement does not replace it
- CLOUD Act exposure remains - the third-country module is mandatory
- The professional-law bar on foreign processing remains a separate assessment by the firm
Status through us
The same model, procured differently, is a different legal position. The status above refers to procurement through us; processing takes place in a third country.
Which route carries it, with which instrument and under which condition, we set out in full to the firm before it commissions us - section 203(4) requires that the chain can be checked, not that it is published. The full matrix, with the sources behind every route, can be requested in the German catalogue after confirming your e-mail address, and we go through it in the conversation.
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