Gemini 3.7 Flash

	Gemini 3.7 Flash(blog.google)
	966 points by thisisauserid 8 days ago \| 491 comments
	tl;dr: Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after 3.6 Flash, claiming significant gains in coding (FrontierCode 1.1: 43.6% vs 34.4%), web development (WebDev Arena Elo 1588 vs 1538), and document reasoning, along with better instruction-following and tool use. It's priced at an introductory $0.75/1M input and $3.75/1M output tokens—half the cost of 3.6 Flash—and is now powering Gemini Spark for Pro/Ultra subscribers and available via the Gemini API, AI Studio, and Antigravity.
	HN Discussion: ~Gemini excels at vision/multimodal tasks but still trails top-tier models like Opus 5 ↓The introductory pricing scheme is odd given the rapid release cadence of Flash models ↓Cheaper competitors like Luna and DS V4 offer comparable intelligence, undercutting Flash's value proposition ↑Flash's real selling point is speed and end-to-end response time, fitting Google's product ecosystem well ~Gemini Flash is a solid 'good-enough' model for automation but insufficient for heavy development work