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Google's third Flash in six weeks — 90.8% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, introductory price until 31 December 2026.
Gemini 3.8 Flash arrived on 2 September 2026, Google's third Flash release in six weeks. It holds the introductory $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 output until 31 December 2026; from 1 January 2027 the price rises to $1.50/$7.50. Google reports 90.8% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 — up from 81.6% for 3.7 Flash — and 54.9% on HLE-Verified, and says it beats most larger frontier models on DeepSWE v1.1 at lower cost. Context window not stated in the announcement and left unrecorded here rather than assumed.
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