# 9to5Google — Gemini 3.8 Flash rolling out three weeks after last release

- Company: 9to5Google (9to5google.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-02T15:18:01+00:00
- Category: model-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://9to5google.com/2026/09/02/gemini-3-8-flash-launch/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/16986-gemini-3-8-flash-rolling-out-three-weeks-after-last-release
- Subject: Reporting
- Models affected: Gemini 3.8 Flash, Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber
- Pricing: introductory price of $0.75/1M input tokens and $3.75/1M output tokens until December 31

Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash, the third Flash update in three months, with improvements over 3.7 Flash in software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning. The model outperforms larger frontier models on the DeepSWE v1.1 benchmark and achieves a 54.9% on HLE-Verified. Google also announced Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for trusted testers, which produced 2.6 times more correct patches to Chrome vulnerabilities than larger commercial models.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://9to5google.com/2026/09/02/gemini-3-8-flash-launch/:

> On DeepSWE v1.1 (Long-Horizon Software Engineering) 3.8 Flash outperforms most larger frontier models in autonomously solving complex engineering problems end to end, only at a fraction of the cost.

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