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Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber. Both are Flash-tier models from the Gemini 3.8 line.

First seen 2 Sep, 15:12 UTC on Hacker News6 sourcesLast update 47d ago

How Gemini 3.8 Flash compares

List prices per million tokens, context and Arena's text leaderboard, against Google's other top models and the leading labs' best. The percentages are Gemini 3.8 Flash's price against each.

ModelReleasedInputOutputContextArena
Gemini 3.8 FlashSeptember 2026$0.75$3.751M#7 1497
Gemini 4 ArgonOctober 2026$2.00 -62%$10.00 -62%1M#1 1525
Nano Banana 2.1October 2026$1.50 -50%$7.50 -50%64Knot ranked yet
Claude Opus 5.5September 2026$4.00 -81%$20.00 -81%1M#2 1507
GPT-6 AstraSeptember 2026$10.00 -92%$50.00 -92%1.05M#30 1475
Muse WonderOctober 2026$4.00 -81%$20.00 -81%1Mnot ranked yet

Arena ranks the best effort setting of each model among all models on its text leaderboard. Every model and price.

What the sources say

Linked, never rewritten. Official means the lab itself.

Official1

deepmind.google· 2 Sep, 16:18Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

Press4

OpenRouter· 2 Sep, 15:14Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash listed on OpenRouterThe Decoder· 2 Sep, 16:59Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's third budget model in six weeks while frontier models remain MIAArs Technica· 2 Sep, 18:13Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeksSiliconANGLE· 3 Sep, 00:04Google launches two Gemini 3.8 models with cutting-edge reasoning capabilities

Community1

Hacker News· 2 Sep, 15:12Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber1160 points · 669 comments

How it unfolded

Every source in the order it appeared. Times in UTC.

2 Sep 15:12Hacker News Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber2 Sep 15:14OpenRouter Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash listed on OpenRouter2 Sep 16:18deepmind.google Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber2 Sep 16:59The Decoder Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's third budget model in six weeks while frontier models remain MIA2 Sep 18:13Ars Technica Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks3 Sep 00:04SiliconANGLE Google launches two Gemini 3.8 models with cutting-edge reasoning capabilities

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