Gemini 3.8 Flash: Faster, Cheaper AI That Beats Opus 5

Gemini is back: they released Gemini 3.8 Flash

This is already the third Flash release in just six weeks.

On DeepSWE v1.1 it outperforms most larger state-of-the-art models. In finance, law, video, biology, and a bunch of other tests it beats Opus 5.

Of course, it still hasn’t completely crushed the flagship models.

But the main thing here is the price.

Opus 5 costs $5 / $25, GPT-5.6 Sol — $4 / $20.

Gemini 3.8 Flash now costs only $0.75 / $3.75.