{"slug": "gemini-3-8-flash-benchmark-scores", "title": "Gemini 3.8 Flash benchmark scores", "summary": "Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash, which according to a post by X user leo 🐾 provides approximately Opus 5 performance at a much lower cost while being super fast. The user notes that real-world performance may not match Opus 5, citing benchmark discrepancies such as TBench 2.1 vs 4, but still considers it a good release.", "body_md": "leo 🐾 on X: \"Google have, dare I say... RELEASED A GOOD MODEL 🥹\nGemini 3.8 Flash provides ~Opus 5 performance at much lower cost, while being super fast\"\n\nIn real-world use it won't be as capable as Opus 5 I'm sure (the usual benchmark fishiness can be smelt here, look at TBench 2.1 vs 4), but still a pretty good release all things considered", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-8-flash-benchmark-scores", "canonical_source": "https://twitter.com/synthwavedd/status/2095166019010494891", "published_at": "2026-09-02 15:12:41+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-02 15:23:28.820982+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Google", "Gemini 3.8 Flash", "Opus 5", "leo 🐾", "TBench 2.1"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-8-flash-benchmark-scores", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-8-flash-benchmark-scores.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-8-flash-benchmark-scores.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-8-flash-benchmark-scores.jsonld"}}