Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash with 50% price cut and improved coding capabilities

Aug 13, 2026

Google has launched Gemini 3.7 Flash, a low-cost AI model featuring a temporary 50% price cut to $0.75 per million input tokens through December 31, 2026. The release comes just three weeks after Gemini 3.6 Flash and immediately powers Google's Gemini Spark agent. While the model shows strong benchmark gains in coding and business workflows—scoring 30.4% on Zapier's AutomationBench—Google's flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro remains delayed. The launch also follows a major leadership shakeup at Google DeepMind, including the departures of Demis Hassabis from daily operations and chief scientist Jeff Dean.

Gemini 3.7 Flash launch

▪Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash as a low-cost coding and agentic model just three weeks after releasing Gemini 3.6 Flash.
▪Google launched its Gemini 3.7 Flash artificial intelligence model on August 13, 2026.
▪Google's flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro model, originally promised by CEO Sundar Pichai at Google I/O in May 2026 for a June release, has missed its delivery targets.

50% introductory price cut

▪On January 1, 2027, the pricing for Gemini 3.7 Flash is scheduled to revert to permanent rates of $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens.
▪The introductory price of Gemini 3.7 Flash represents a 50% reduction compared to the launch price of Gemini 3.6 Flash.
▪Through December 31, 2026, Google is offering introductory pricing for Gemini 3.7 Flash at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens.

Coding benchmark improvements

▪On the FrontierCode 1.1 coding benchmark, Gemini 3.7 Flash scored 43.6%, up from the 34.4% scored by Gemini 3.6 Flash.
▪On the DeepSWE v1.1 software engineering benchmark, Gemini 3.7 Flash scored 65.3%, compared to 49.0% for Gemini 3.6 Flash.
▪Gemini 3.7 Flash achieved an Elo rating of 1,588 on the WebDev Arena leaderboard, an increase from the 1,538 scored by Gemini 3.6 Flash.

AutomationBench workflow performance

▪On the OSWorld-2.0 benchmark for graphical user interface navigation, Gemini 3.7 Flash scored 38.1%, trailing GPT-5.6 Terra's score of 50.2%.
▪Gemini 3.7 Flash scored 30.4% on Zapier's AutomationBench workflow test, outpacing OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Terra at 23.6% and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 at 10.7%.
▪On the GDP.pdf document reasoning benchmark, Gemini 3.7 Flash scored 34.0%, improving upon Gemini 3.6 Flash's score of 22.0%.

Gemini Spark agent integration

▪Google integrated Gemini 3.7 Flash into Gemini Spark, its persistent cloud-based personal AI agent available to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
▪The integration of Gemini 3.7 Flash is designed to improve Gemini Spark's reliability, multi-step planning, and tool execution across Google Workspace applications.

DeepMind leadership departures

▪Google chief scientist Jeff Dean departed Alphabet on August 5, 2026, to co-found AI startup Discovery Loop alongside Gemini co-technical lead Oriol Vinyals.
▪Alphabet's stock fell approximately 4% following the August 5, 2026 leadership departures, which left Google with neither of Gemini's original technical co-leads.
▪On August 5, 2026, Demis Hassabis stepped back as CEO of Google DeepMind to become chairman, with Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over daily operations as Senior Vice President.