Google Halves Gemini Flash Pricing Three Weeks After Its Last Release

Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash on Thursday, updating the tier that carries most production traffic for developers on its platform. The introductory price runs at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens through December 31, 2026, which is half the launch price of Gemini 3.6 Flash. From January 1, 2027, the rate rises to $1.50 and $7.50, according to the pricing detail reported by VentureBeat. The predecessor is three weeks old.

The main capability claim is about coding performance. Google reports its DeepSWE benchmark score rising from 49.0% to 65.3%, with Terminal-bench 2.1 at 85.8%. Those are launch figures from Google itself, not independently reproduced. Independent measurement so far is thinner. Artificial Analysis places Gemini 3.7 Flash at 56 on its composite intelligence index. On Agent's Last Exam, a multimodal desktop and operating-system task set, Claude Sonnet 5 passes 33.3% of tasks against 26.3% for the new Flash model. OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Terra still leads on Terminal-bench 3.0 and OSWorld-2.0, as the-decoder noted in its comparison.

The Russian-language technical channel AI ML Big Data described the release primarily as a price event, noting that Google updated its high-volume production model, not its top tier, and cut the rate in half on the tier where token volume is largest. That is the right way to read it for anyone running an agent loop, where output tokens make up most of the bill.

Gemini 3.7 Flash also becomes the model that runs Gemini Spark, Google's background personal agent, which runs on dedicated virtual machines and connects to Gmail, Docs and Sheets. A cheaper, more reliable tool-calling model is exactly what Spark needed, because an agent that retries less often costs less to run and fails less often in front of a user.