Google says its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model ‘works harder’ but might cost more

Google has announced the launch of Gemini 3.8 Flash, just weeks after the previous version 3.7 Flash. The company claims that the new model operates more efficiently by performing additional reasoning steps on complex tasks and utilizing tools iteratively. Google maintains the same pricing as the previous version, set at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens. However, the enhanced performance may lead to increased overall costs for users, as the model might require more tokens to achieve optimal performance.