Gemini · Google · Claude · Ars Technica
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks
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Google hasn’t released a frontier-level Gemini Pro AI model since early 2026, but it sure loves rolling out new Gemini Flash variants.
Key facts
- API access to the model is available at an “introductory rate” through the end of the year: $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens
- While Gemini 3.8 Flash is an improvement over 3.7 Flash in the OSWorld-2.0 test of agentic computer use, it’s still far behind the market leader Claude Opus
- Gemini 3.8 Flash will be available across the Google ecosystem starting today, but Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber is currently limited to trusted testers and governments
- Google hasn’t released a frontier-level Gemini Pro AI model since early 2026, but it sure loves rolling out new Gemini Flash variants
Summary
Gemini 3.8 Flash comes in two variations. For developers, Google has the same pitch as it did for the 3.7 Flash release a couple of weeks ago. Google has offered its usual raft of benchmark numbers, which appear to show Gemini 3.8 Flash competing with (or even beating) larger and more expensive models. Gemini 3.8 Flash is now at the top of the DeepSWE leaderboard, which measures a model’s ability to solve complex software engineering problems, and it does so at a lower cost (at the current discounted rate).