Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash posts 73.7% on DeepSWE at roughly 300 tokens per second

Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash, described as its third Flash release in six weeks. The model reportedly scored 73.7% on the DeepSWE coding benchmark, just behind Opus-5 and competitive with models costing several times more. Independent testing gave it an intelligence score of 59, which is not the absolute frontier but was characterized as a strong result for a model generating roughly 300 tokens per second.

The model was described as very fast, inexpensive and effective at coding on this particular benchmark. Its speed and lower cost could help it compete with more expensive models, but actual adoption and the effect on enterprise spending remain uncertain.