Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Gemini 3.8 Flash: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Gemini 3.7 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash both come from Google, Gemini 3.7 Flash was released in August 2026, and Gemini 3.8 Flash followed a month later in September 2026.
The two models share 10 published benchmarks. Gemini 3.8 Flash leads on 9 of them, Gemini 3.7 Flash on 1. The widest gaps are on BioMysteryBench, where Gemini 3.8 Flash scores 56.5% against 43.5%; OSWorld 2.0, where Gemini 3.8 Flash scores 59.0% against 47.9%. Averaged across everything we track, Gemini 3.7 Flash sits at 59.8% and Gemini 3.8 Flash at 59.2%.
On price the two are close: Gemini 3.7 Flash costs $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, Gemini 3.8 Flash $0.75 and $3.75. Both accept a context window of about 1M tokens. Gemini 3.7 Flash accepts text and images as input, while Gemini 3.8 Flash accepts text, images, audio, and video.
| Characteristic | Gemini 3.7 Flash | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Company | ||
| Release Date | August 13, 2026 | September 2, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | 66K | 66K |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.75 | $0.75 |
| Output Price / 1M | $3.75 | $3.75 |
| Average Score | 59.8% | 59.2% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| BioMysteryBench | 43.5% | 56.5% |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 47.9% | 59.0% |
| DeepSWE 1.1 | 65.3% | 73.7% |
| LABBench2 | 82.1% | 86.2% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 85.8% | 89.4% |
| CharXiv-R | 88.7% | 86.2% |
| LVBench | 85.4% | 87.1% |
| HLE-Verified | 53.6% | 54.9% |
| GDP.pdf | 34.0% | 35.0% |
| GDPval-AA | 50.8% | 51.5% |
Visual Benchmark Comparison
Verdict
Gemini 3.8 Flash leads in 1 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Gemini 3.7 Flash — 0.6, Gemini 3.8 Flash — 0.6.
API cost is identical: input $0.75/1M, output $3.75/1M tokens.
Same context size: 1M tokens.
Gemini 3.8 Flash is newer: released 9/2/2026 vs 8/13/2026.
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