Gemini 3.8 Flash costs $0.75/$3.75 vs Opus 5's $5/$25 while leading on coding and agent benchmarks
Scobleizer · x · 2026-09-03
Google introduced Gemini 3.8 with two variants, Flash and Flash Cyber, calling it its best reasoning and coding model yet, built on long-running agentic loops. The key pitch: Flash is priced at $0.75/M in and $3.75/M out versus Opus 5's $5/$25, while reportedly leading on terminal coding, finance agents, chart reasoning, and long video — 'flash has stopped being the compromise tier.'
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