Gemini API

The Gemini API is the fastest path from prompt to production with Gemini, Veo, Nano Banana, and more. It lets you integrate these generative models into your applications to generate text and images, analyze multimodal inputs, and build conversational agents.

Python

from google import genai

client = genai.Client()

response = client.models.generate_content(
    model="gemini-3.8-flash",
    contents="Explain how AI works in a few words",
)

print(response.text)

JavaScript

import { GoogleGenAI } from "@google/genai";

const ai = new GoogleGenAI({});

async function main() {
  const response = await ai.models.generateContent({
    model: "gemini-3.8-flash",
    contents: "Explain how AI works in a few words",
  });
  console.log(response.text);
}

await main();

Go

package main

import (
    "context"
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "google.golang.org/genai"
)

func main() {
    ctx := context.Background()
    client, err := genai.NewClient(ctx, nil)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }

    result, err := client.Models.GenerateContent(
        ctx,
        "gemini-3.8-flash",
        genai.Text("Explain how AI works in a few words"),
        nil,
    )
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    fmt.Println(result.Text())
}

Java

package com.example;

import com.google.genai.Client;
import com.google.genai.types.GenerateContentResponse;

public class GenerateTextFromTextInput {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Client client = new Client();

    GenerateContentResponse response =
        client.models.generateContent(
            "gemini-3.8-flash",
            "Explain how AI works in a few words",
            null);

    System.out.println(response.text());
  }
}

C#

using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Google.GenAI;
using Google.GenAI.Types;

public class GenerateContentSimpleText {
  public static async Task main() {
    var client = new Client();
    var response = await client.Models.GenerateContentAsync(
      model: "gemini-3.8-flash", contents: "Explain how AI works in a few words"
    );
    Console.WriteLine(response.Candidates[0].Content.Parts[0].Text);
  }
}

REST

curl "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/gemini-3.8-flash:generateContent" \
  -H "x-goog-api-key: $GEMINI_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -X POST \
  -d '{
    "contents": [
      {
        "parts": [
          {
            "text": "Explain how AI works in a few words"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }'

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