# Gemini 3.8 Flash benchmark scores > Source: > Published: 2026-09-02 15:12:41+00:00 leo 🐾 on X: "Google have, dare I say... RELEASED A GOOD MODEL 🥹 Gemini 3.8 Flash provides ~Opus 5 performance at much lower cost, while being super fast" In 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