Gemini 3.8 Flash Available in Agent Studio on Google Cloud Platform
Gemini 3.8 Flash landed in Agent Studio on Google Cloud Platform on 2 September 2026 — Google’s third Flash release in six weeks. It scores 73.7% on DeepSWE v1.1, within 0.3 points of Claude Opus 5, at $0.75 per million input tokens until January. This article covers what the model changes inside Agent Studio, the benchmarks and pricing worth trusting, the restricted Flash Cyber security variant, and what a three-weekly release cadence means for teams building production agents.