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Gemini 3.8 Flash
★ LIVE
by Google
JUST LANDED · UPDATING HOURLY
CLOSEDHOSTEDAPILONG CONTEXTPAIDREASONING
RANKED #41 OF 241 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #68 OF 6,468 · VIBE SCORE 6.5 · 325 VOICES
Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's most intelligent Flash model with significant gains from 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning.
HAPPY9.6
39 mentions
SAD5.4
21 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 3,147 voices
TOO QUIET
Not enough weekly voices to call a trend yet.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. Google hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
Gemini 3.8 Flash is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.6
Qwen3.8 27BAlibabaRuns locally on consumer hardware with native vision and strong coding skills.🪶 RUNS ON LESS🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE💻 STRONG AT CODE9.5k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.4Dots3 NoteXiaohongshuOpen multimodal MoE that excels at complex visual reasoning and long tasks.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE💸 COST EFFICIENT2.6k VOICESMATCH★★★
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.3Apertus v1.5 70BInfomaniakTransparent European multimodal 70B model built for private multilingual use.🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE⚡ FAST🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY1.6k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly frustrated with Gemini 3.8 Flash right now.
312 POSTS · 13 COMMENTS · REDDIT · GITHUB · HACKER NEWS · LEMMY · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- Stable and dependable (1 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (2 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with multimodal models like this one.
Grok 4.6> SOURCES (12)
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-09-02 · 699 UPVOTESGemini 3.8 Flash
Gemini 3.8 Flash
- REDDIT · 2026-08-28 · 268 UPVOTES🚨 Gemini 3.8 Flash is already being tested internally Google employees already have Gemini 3.8 Flash Preview on Jetski, and early…
🚨 Gemini 3.8 Flash is already being tested internally Google employees already have Gemini 3.8 Flash Preview on Jetski, and early impressions say it’s noticeably better than 3.7 Flash Remember, 3.7 Flash only dropped around two weeks ago too 👀 Google are…
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-09-02 · 76 UPVOTESGemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
- BLOG · 2026-09-02 · 32 UPVOTESllm-gemini 0.34
Release: llm-gemini 0.34 New model gemini-3.8-flash for Gemini 3.8 Flash , with low, medium and high thinking levels. #146 Fixed async responses failing to record the resolved model version. Thanks, Charlie Tonneslan . #137 Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash…
- GITHUB · 2026-09-02 · 13 UPVOTESAntigravity Gemini 3.8 Flash
Antigravity Gemini 3.8 Flash
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-09-02 · 10 UPVOTESGemini 3.8 Flash Model card [pdf]
Gemini 3.8 Flash Model card [pdf]
- GITHUB · 2026-09-02 · 9 UPVOTESPlease add support for Gemini 3.8 Flash on the Antigravity platform as soon as possible. Thank you!
Please add support for Gemini 3.8 Flash on the Antigravity platform as soon as possible. Thank you!
- REDDIT · 2026-08-25 · 8 UPVOTESGemini 3.8 flash et bel et bien en tests sur lmarena. Ox Alpha aussi.
Gemini 3.8 flash et bel et bien en tests sur lmarena. Ox Alpha aussi.
- REDDIT · 2026-08-22 · 0 UPVOTESAlmost entirely sure Gemini 3.5 pro is dropping today
Almost entirely sure Gemini 3.5 pro is dropping today
- GITHUB · 2026-09-02 · 0 UPVOTESSimplify ingest, database, payload, and runtime
Simplify ingest, database, payload, and runtime
- GITHUB · 2026-09-02 · 0 UPVOTES【運用ループ】2026-09-03 - 運用ループ
【運用ループ】2026-09-03 - 運用ループ
- GITHUB · 2026-09-02 · 0 UPVOTESRelease: land PR #6388 through the Admin SOP, post-merge smoke, then UAT deploy with the Wallet subagent enabled
Release: land PR #6388 through the Admin SOP, post-merge smoke, then UAT deploy with the Wallet subagent enabled