Google releases Gemini 3.7 Flash at half the price of 3.6 Flash
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The takeaway
Gemini 3.7 Flash (GA 13 Aug 2026, gemini-3.7-flash) was billed as Google’s “most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents”, with big gains over 3.6 Flash (DeepSWE v1.1 65.3% vs 49.0%) at an introductory $0.75/$3.75 per 1M tokens — half 3.6 Flash’s launch price.
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- 30 September 2026
Your AI and this story
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None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 44 days before it.
Key facts
- Released 2026-08-13, three weeks after Gemini 3.6 Flash; API ID gemini-3.7-flash
- Intro price $0.75 input / $3.75 output per 1M tokens until 2026-12-31, then $1.50 / $7.50
- DeepSWE v1.1: 65.3% (3.6 Flash: 49.0%)
- FrontierCode 1.1 Main: 43.6% (3.6 Flash: 34.4%)
- WebDev Arena Elo: 1588 (3.6 Flash: 1538)
- GDP.pdf: 34.0% (22.0%); AutomationBench: 30.4% (17.0%)
- Powers Gemini Spark agent for AI Pro/Ultra subscribers in 160+ countries
- Updated safeguards for CBRN and cyber-offense domains
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- Sept 1, 2026: ‘agentic video understanding’ in the Gemini API for 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite: the model uses native video tools to fetch only the segments, audio or transcript it needs instead of sampling at a fixed 1 FPS; Google reports up to 88% fewer tokens, up to 66% lower cost and up to 7% higher accuracy on video benchmarks
- Aug 27, 2026: Google’s Antigravity ‘Teamwork’ multi-agent framework paired 3.7 Flash (with 3.1 Pro) to produce results on seven open CS/math problems and 71% on TCSBench (see Google’s Antigravity ‘Teamwork’ multi-agent framework with Gemini 3.7 Flash solves seven open CS/math problems, incl. part of Knuth’s cycles problem)
What happened
On 13 August 2026 Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash across the Gemini API (AI Studio), Android Studio, Google Antigravity, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and the Gemini app, where it also became the model behind the Gemini Spark personal agent. Google reported large jumps over 3.6 Flash on coding and agentic benchmarks (see key facts) and cut the introductory price to half of 3.6 Flash’s.
Why it matters
A second Flash upgrade in three weeks, and a price cut, showed Google competing on cost-efficient agentic coding while its flagship Pro model slipped. Bloomberg and Axios both framed the launch around the continuing Gemini 3.5 Pro delay.
Sources
7 sources from 5 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
7 sources: 5 primary, 2 press
Primary
- Gemini 3.7 Flash: our most intelligent workhorse model (Google blog)blog.google, official
- Gemini 3.7 Flash (Google DeepMind blog)deepmind.google, official
- Gemini 3.7 Flash model carddeepmind.google, official
- Gemini API docs: gemini-3.7-flashai.google.dev, docs
- Google DeepMind: Introducing agentic video understanding with Geminideepmind.google, official
Press
- Bloomberg: Google debuts new Gemini Flash while top AI model still delayedbloomberg.com, press
- Axios: Gemini 3.7 Flash arrives before Gemini 3.5 Proaxios.com, press
Changes
- Added Sept 1 agentic video understanding and the Antigravity Teamwork results
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