Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Gemini 3.8 Flash

Wins 2 of 16 benchmarks
$0.93 / task
Wins 7 of 16 benchmarks
AutomationBench-AA AutomationBench-AA: Agents orchestrate SaaS workflows through APIs; objectives receive credit only when the task has no guardrail violation
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high62
Gemini 3.8 Flash60.9
GDPval-AA (work tasks) 2.1 GDPval-AA (work tasks) 2.1: Real work tasks from many professions (reports, spreadsheets, analyses), graded against expert work
Gemini 3.7 Flash43
Gemini 3.8 Flash46.1
τ³-Banking · AA τ³-Banking · AA: Agents retrieve banking knowledge and execute tools to resolve customer-support workflows
Gemini 3.7 Flash35.5
Gemini 3.8 Flash45.8
AA Analyst Agent AA Analyst Agent: Data-analyst tasks: the model explores data with tools and reports findings
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high60
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high46.3
Terminal-Bench 4.0 Terminal-Bench 4.0 · source setting 2: Agents use a terminal to complete executable coding, system administration and research tasks in the 4.0 suite
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high13.6
Gemini 3.8 Flash19.7
AA-Briefcase 1.1 · Elo AA-Briefcase 1.1 · Elo: Agents produce professional deliverables; blind pairwise comparisons produce the source Elo rating
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high1,113.5
Gemini 3.8 Flash1,181.5
AA-LCR (long context) 1.1 AA-LCR (long context) 1.1: Questions that need reading and connecting facts across very long documents (around 100K tokens)
Gemini 3.7 Flash83
Gemini 3.8 Flash84
DeepSWE 1.1 DeepSWE 1.1: Agents change repository code to resolve software engineering tasks under the stated DeepSWE edition
Gemini 3.7 Flash65.5
Gemini 3.8 Flash71
Furniture Assembly Furniture Assembly: Models inspect furniture assembly photos, identify incorrect builds and locate the mistaken step
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high26.7
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high31.7
ITBench SRE ITBench SRE: IT incident tasks: diagnose and fix broken systems like a site-reliability engineer
Gemini 3.7 Flash—
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high52.5
Terminal-Bench Science 0.1 Terminal-Bench Science 0.1: Agents complete expert-authored research workflows across five scientific domains in a terminal
Gemini 3.7 Flash—
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high10
EnterpriseOps-Gym-AA EnterpriseOps-Gym-AA: Agents complete stateful enterprise workflows in eight domains; final database state determines success
Gemini 3.7 Flash50.4
Gemini 3.8 Flash—
FrontierCode 1.1 FrontierCode 1.1: Agents implement changes in real repositories, graded against maintainer-defined requirements
Gemini 3.7 Flash—
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high36.4
Harvey LAB-AA 1.1 Harvey LAB-AA 1.1: Legal agents work from case documents; every rubric criterion must pass and material hallucinations receive no credit
Gemini 3.7 Flash—
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high0
SWE-bench Pro (v2 full) SWE-bench Pro (v2 full): Agents resolve repository issues under the network-locked v2 protocol; full and 51-task Hard results are separate
Gemini 3.7 Flash—
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high94.9
SWE-bench Pro (v2 hard) SWE-bench Pro (v2 hard): Agents resolve repository issues under the network-locked v2 protocol; full and 51-task Hard results are separate
Gemini 3.7 Flash—
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high58.8

Specs

SpecGemini 3.7 FlashGemini 3.8 Flash
Input, per 1M$0.75!$0.75
Output, per 1M$3.75!$3.75
Cost per task?—$0.93
Context1M1M
WeightsClosedClosed
ReleasedAug 2026Sep 2026
See images✓✓
Read PDFsPartial✓
Hear audio✓✓
Watch video✓✓
Call tools✓✓
Force a tool callPartialPartial
Return strict JSON✓✓
Search the web?✓
Run code?✓
Use a computer??

What breaks when you switch

Gemini 3.7 Flash → Gemini 3.8 Flash
Sampling parameters are ignored›

temperature, top_p and top_k are ignored now and will cause HTTP 400 in future generations; remove them from requests.

No minimal thinking level›

The minimal thinking level returns an error; avoid minimal.

Gemini 3.8 Flash → Gemini 3.7 Flash
Nothing known.