Gemini 3.8 Flash Is Out — But It’s Slower to Respond Than 3.7 Flash: Is It Worth Switching? (September 2026)
Quick answer: Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Flash on September 2, 2026, at the same $0.75/$3.75 per-million-token price as 3.7 Flash, with real gains on agentic and coding benchmarks. The catch: it takes 13.30 seconds to produce its first token against a 2.99-second class median, according to Artificial Analysis data — fine for a batch coding…
