Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash, three weeks after 3.7 Flash launch, for an introductory price of $0.75/1M input and $3.75/1M output tokens until December 31 (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash three weeks after Gemini 3.7 Flash, pricing it at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens through December 31. The new model is positioned as a next-generation intelligence for agentic workflows and cybersecurity, and Google claims it outperforms Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on certain benchmarks.