Gemini 3.7 Flash

#1

Post by thisisauserid » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 5:23 PM UTC

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.7-flas...

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

#2

Post by spelk » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 5:07 PM UTC

>3.7 Flash is available through the end of the year at an introductory price 1 of $0.75/1M input tokens and $3.75/1M output tokens. This price combined with the enhanced model performance enables developers and customers to scale production-ready agents cost effectively.

Introductory pricing until December 2026 implies no significant Gemini Flash developments until the next year.

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

#3

Post by bisonbear » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 5:25 PM UTC

They compare it to 5.6 Terra, however https://cognition.com/frontiercode puts Terra at about 1/2 the price

Also have to compare to the recent Grok 4.6 release, which appears to straight up be better AND cheaper

Hard to understand why anyone would choose 3.7 Flash under these conditions.. is Deepmind still a frontier lab?

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

#4

Post by bisonbear » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 5:26 PM UTC

Reposting my comment from the other thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288847

They compare it to 5.6 Terra, however https://cognition.com/frontiercode puts Terra at about 1/2 the price

Also have to compare to the recent Grok 4.6 release, which appears to straight up be better AND cheaper

Hard to understand why anyone would choose 3.7 Flash under these conditions.. is Deepmind still a frontier lab?

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

#5

Post by pkoird » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 5:27 PM UTC

When are we getting another pro model from Gemini? Or are they simply focusing on the niche of fast but moderately capable models?

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

#6

Post by AntonioEritas » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 5:27 PM UTC

Another failed 3.5 pro run branded as 3.7 flash. It's getting sad.

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

#7

Post by 9cb14c1ec0 » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 5:27 PM UTC

Model card: https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-7-flash/

Somewhere in the same neighborhood as GPT 5.6 Tera and Sonnet 5, depending on the bench.

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

#8

Post by nickandbro » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 5:27 PM UTC

This is genuinely a competitive model, considering it beats Claude Sonnet 5 on almost all benchmarks and is more than half its price. Seems like Google is back in the game, though not leading the frontier anymore.

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

#9

Post by euazOn » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 5:28 PM UTC

The multimodal abilities are great, but if you deal with text only, what is the benefit of using this over DS V4 Flash/Pro? 13-26x cheaper with comparable intelligence, and available across many different inference providers.

I fail to see the usecase where DS V4 Pro is not enough, but Flash 3.7 is - except multimodal.

Luna is similar, and also 8x cheaper. Source: artificialanalysis

The only benefit I can see is the speed, that looks to be outstanding, probably thanks to their TPUs.

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

#10

Post by Tiberium » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 5:28 PM UTC

3.7 Flash gets 56 on AA up from 52 for 3.6 Flash. But it seems like this is at the cost of more output tokens per task: 3.6 Flash is 26k, 3.7 Flash is 37k. Due to 3.7 Flash's 2x slashed pricing it's still cheaper per task.