Google says its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model ‘works harder’ but might cost more

Google introduced the Gemini 3.8 Flash model a few weeks after Gemini 3.7 Flash. The company says the new version performs more reasoning steps and uses tools iteratively, which may improve performance on complex tasks. Although the introductory pricing matches the previous model, Google notes that the model could consume more tokens and potentially increase costs for users.

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