Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash holds the old price and adds a cybersecurity-only sibling

Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber on September 2 — one foundational model split by safeguards rather than by size. Flash stays at the introductory $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output, scores 54.9% on HLE-Verified, and by Google's own description works harder per task, taking extra reasoning steps and calling tools iteratively, so token use can rise even at an unchanged rate. Flash Cyber goes only to vetted defenders through a new limited-access program.

What it means Third Flash release in six weeks at the same rate card — the cheap tier is where most production traffic actually runs, and working harder per task is a cost change even when the price is not.