Google Unveils Gemini 3.8 Flash AI Model with Enhanced Performance
Google has introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash, its latest model in the Flash tier, at an introductory price of $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens through December 31, 2026. The company's announcement described the release as its third Flash update in six weeks.
Gemini 3.8 Flash is considered Google's most intelligent workhorse model, delivering significant improvements over 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning in specialized domains. It supports a one-million-token context window, a maximum of 64,000 output tokens, and tunable thinking levels of low, medium, and high, with medium as the default.
The model takes smaller reasoning steps, calls tools iteratively, and verifies its work on difficult multi-step goals, and may use more tokens by design on complex tasks, especially at higher effort levels. For efficiency-first workloads, developers can lower the reasoning effort or continue using Gemini 3.7 Flash.