Google’s cheap model is now two versions ahead of its flagship

Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash with sharp gains on coding benchmarks and introductory pricing of $0.75 per million input tokens. Gemini 3.5 Pro remains months behind schedule, and Google will not say whether it is still coming.

Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash, and still will not say when its flagship model is coming. The workhorse model posts large gains on coding, which is the ground Google has been losing. Gemini 3.5 Pro, the model this one is meant to sit beneath, remains months behind schedule.

The numbers are real. On FrontierCode 1.1 the new model scores 43.6% against 34.4% for its predecessor, on DeepSWE v1.1 it reaches 65.3% against 49.0%, and on AutomationBench it more than doubles, from 17.0% to 30.4%.

Google is pricing it to be used. Input costs $0.75 per million tokens and output $3.75 until the end of December, after which both double. It also...

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