Gemini 3.8 Flash launches at $0.75/M input, benchmarking near frontier models
mark_k · x · 2026-09-02
Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Flash at $0.75/M input and $3.75/M output tokens, with claimed jumps over Gemini 3.7 Flash: 89.4% Terminal-Bench 2.1, 86.2% CharXiv Reasoning, 54.9% HLE-Verified and more. The cheap/fast tier is now trading blows with GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Opus 5 on agentic and reasoning workloads.
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