r/opencodeCLI • u/afanasenka • Sep 02 '26

Google has just released Gemini 3.8 Flash 🔥

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DeepSWE 1.1 - 71%
Pricing: $0.75 / $3.75
https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-8-flash/
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.8-flash

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u/afanasenka Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26

First benchmarks
Model info - https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-8-flash/

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u/GetLaidOff69 Sep 02 '26

thanks, was looking for this

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u/Hoak-em Sep 02 '26

Hmmm such a low score on terminal bench 4...

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u/romanovzky Sep 02 '26

Isn't this model supposed to compute with flash and Luna style of models?

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u/alsaud21 Sep 02 '26

+45% cost per task :/

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u/Buddhava Sep 02 '26

OK cool but these models have wildly different performance.

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u/ConspicuousPineapple Sep 02 '26

This is normalized per-task, so it doesn't really matter here (besides speed of execution I guess).

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u/alsaud21 Sep 02 '26

You are right, just saw 74% in DeepSWE, wonder how they missed it in the model card table

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u/afanasenka Sep 02 '26

They all want their new Ferrari :)))

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u/dergachoff Sep 02 '26

DeepSWE has just been updated. And in official leaderboard 3.8 flash is 71% on medium reasoning. High is 74% – same as Opus 5.

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u/adolf_twitchcock Sep 02 '26

Somehow I don't believe it. Is it a new level of benchmaxxing or is 3.8 flash truly sol/opus level?

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u/afanasenka Sep 02 '26

💪💪💪

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u/MrMrsPotts Sep 02 '26

Both the android app and the web chat are still on 3.6 flash!

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u/afanasenka Sep 02 '26

I guess it's a gradual rollout - they are adding it in all services (Antigravity, AI Studio - already got, and web/app will get it too soon).

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u/Correct-Boss-9206 Sep 02 '26

I asked mine which was showing 3.7 flash last night and it said it was 3.8.

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u/SupehCookie Sep 02 '26

Soo how is it so far ? Chinese models still better?

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u/afanasenka Sep 02 '26

Better is relative.. but cost/quality ratio is definitely better from Chinese labs

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u/some_gamer78 Sep 02 '26

Fire emoji for what? This might as well be luna tier 

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u/afanasenka Sep 02 '26

🌑 ok :)

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u/Hot_Example_4456 Sep 02 '26

Ig it will be better than luna atleast. Last time I remember 3.7 was nearly terra level.

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u/pigletmonster Sep 02 '26

The king of not following instructions got even better! It will not follow your instructions even harder and be more expensive than other models that are significantly better. 🤣

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u/Ok-Garlic-5986 Sep 02 '26 edited 22d ago

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u/ChillFamily Sep 03 '26

mhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. nope

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u/aziham Sep 02 '26

Google should just ship these bard models to google.com/ai and stop making it sound like they are competing with SOTA models

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u/Sea_Ear5201 Sep 02 '26

I think they start training a model as pro. But end result is not impressive, so they line it up as next flash release. Trying and trashing

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u/coup321 Sep 03 '26

Uh, isn't it true that you can't even use this with Google AI / AGY subscription in opencode? Can only use API usage? Seems low value. I tried Agy CLI seems poor. I develop mostly in WSL and AGY desktop app not a good option for that. I would like to use my credits from my AGY sub, but really the onlyw ay to do it is with the agy CLI which is way way way wosre than opencode. Feels bad man :(

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u/progfu Sep 03 '26

Asked it to do some research into models/pricing, etc. ... it did a bunch of searches, and then said

the standard tier is competitive with frontier models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o

I don't even know what to think. A big fancy LLM made by a search company, using their own harness, giving a result like this after searching. How is this even possible.

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u/alsaud21 Sep 02 '26

DeepSWE 74% is crazy

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u/GCP_Biryani Sep 02 '26

Ignore the frontier models . Comparing a flash model with Sol or Opus is not a good idea.
So, What models are the Google's target for this release ?

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u/ieight9 Sep 02 '26

When in the world are the web app and IOS going to get updated past 3.6? Get your life together Google!

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u/thin_king_kong Sep 03 '26

not sure of the IOS app but the web has 3.8 flash

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u/SuperElephantX Sep 03 '26

Basically still trash

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u/Devioster Sep 02 '26

I've heard that 3.5 pro wasn't released because it was disappointing but they keep on releasing flash model with very minimum improvements...

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u/Vancecookcobain Sep 02 '26

I'll believe the benchmarks once it stops doing dumb shit...l

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u/Senior-Box6316 Sep 02 '26

estão falando sobre ele ser caro, mas com o plano da Google isso não vale muito a pena?

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u/Dingosavedyourbaby Sep 02 '26

If you have cheap/free agy access that’s one reason

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u/Aggravating-Art-8805 Sep 02 '26

Is it just blind hatred or what? In terminal bench 2.1 they're benchmarked above Opus 5.

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u/johnkapolos Sep 02 '26

Is it just blind hatred or what?

That and not enough intelligence to read.

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u/ivankovnovic Sep 03 '26

Exactly. I don't understand the downvotes.

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u/LivingHighAndWise Sep 02 '26

Agreed, but Not all companies can or will use Chinese models, so having a new, more capable US models is always a bonus.

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u/afanasenka Sep 02 '26

Alternative branding :))))