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title: "Google says its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model ‘works harder’ but might cost more"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/google-says-its-new-gemini-3-8-flash-model-works-harder-but-might-cost-v0e6a8f5a
published: 2026-09-02T20:11:40.000Z
byline: "Source: The Verge AI"
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# Google says its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model ‘works harder’ but might cost more

Source: The Verge AI · Published 2026-09-02 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/google-says-its-new-gemini-3-8-flash-model-works-harder-but-might-cost-v0e6a8f5a

Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model "works harder" than Gemini 3.7 Flash by performing more reasoning steps on complex tasks and "calling tools iteratively." It has the same introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash, $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million \[…\]

In this story: [Gemini 3.8 Flash](https://frontiernewswire.com/models/gemini-3-8-flash)

## Sources

- [Read the original at The Verge AI](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/988742/google-gemini-3-8-flash)

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