Gemini 3.7 Flash
Google · Released Aug 2026
Gemini 3.7 Flash is Google's strongest Flash workhorse yet for coding and agents — a genuine step up from 3.6 Flash at half the prior price through 2026. It still trails the frontier on the hardest terminal and computer-use tasks. A clear upgrade for cost-sensitive and Google-ecosystem agent builders; not a frontier-code replacement.
Is it right for you?
Good for
- Cost-sensitive coding and agent workloads — $0.75/$3.75 intro pricing is roughly a third the blended cost of Claude Sonnet 5 or GPT-5.6 Terra
- Long-horizon software engineering — DeepSWE v1.1 65.3%, up from 49.0% for 3.6 Flash
- Web development — Code Arena Elo 1588, top of Google's comparison table, with better design-system adherence in fewer prompts
- Google-ecosystem agent builders — powers Gemini Spark; available via Gemini API, AI Studio, Android Studio, and Antigravity
Not good for
- Hardest terminal/agentic coding where frontier models lead — GPT-5.6 Terra is ahead on DeepSWE (69.6%), Terminal-Bench 2.1 (87.4%), and OSWorld-2.0
- Teams needing price stability beyond 2026 — the introductory rate expires Dec 31, 2026, then doubles to $1.50/$7.50
How it performs by task
Software engineering (DeepSWE v1.1)
65.3%, a big gain over 3.6 Flash's 49.0% but still behind GPT-5.6 Terra's 69.6%
Production code quality (FrontierCode 1.1 Main)
43.6% vs 34.4% for 3.6 Flash; leads GPT-5.6 Terra on Google's table
Terminal/CLI agent work (Terminal-Bench 2.1)
85.8%, close behind GPT-5.6 Terra's 87.4%
Web development (Code Arena)
1588 Elo — top score in Google's comparison table
Knowledge work / long context
1M context, 97.0% on the 128K long-context needle test; GDPval-AA 1525 Elo trails Sonnet 5's 1598
Pricing
Input
$0.75 / 1M
Output
$3.75 / 1M
Context
1M context, 64K output
Benchmarks
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