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Google makes Gemini 3.7 Flash generally available at an introductory $0.75 per million input tokens
On August 13, 2026, Google made Gemini 3.7 Flash generally available in the Gemini API, three weeks after Gemini 3.6 Flash, at an introductory $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens through December 31, 2026.
Archive entry: this covers an event from August 13, 2026, and we published it on November 8, 2026. The details come from sources dated at the time and may have changed since.
On August 13, 2026, Google made Gemini 3.7 Flash generally available in the Gemini API, three weeks after Gemini 3.6 Flash, according to Google's announcement post. Google described the introductory price as half the original Gemini 3.6 Flash cost per million tokens.
What changed
- Price: an introductory $0.75 per 1M input tokens and $3.75 per 1M output tokens.
- Schedule: Google set the introductory price to run through December 31, 2026, with $1.50 per 1M input tokens and $7.50 per 1M output tokens from January 1, 2027.
- Benchmarks: compared with Gemini 3.6 Flash, the reported results were 43.6% vs 34.4% on FrontierCode 1.1 Main, 65.3% vs 49.0% on DeepSWE v1.1, 1588 vs 1538 Elo on WebDev Arena, 34.0% vs 22.0% on GDP.pdf and 30.4% vs 17.0% on AutomationBench.
- Availability: the model was available in Google Antigravity, Google AI Studio, Android Studio, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and the Gemini Enterprise app. Gemini Spark, the agent in the Gemini app for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in over 160 countries, ran on it.
- Safeguards: it shipped with updated safeguards against misuse in the chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) and cyber-offense domains.
What it meant for people building with AI
Developers got a cheaper and, on the reported benchmarks, stronger Flash-tier model for coding agents. The $0.75 / $3.75 price point was also the one that Gemini 3.8 Flash later kept.
Where it was documented
The Gemini API changelog entry for August 13, 2026 also lists the release.
Sources
- Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash (Google (The Keyword), August 13, 2026, official)
- Gemini API changelog: August 13, 2026 (Google AI Studio (Gemini API changelog), August 13, 2026, official)
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