Gemini 3.8 Flash

Gemini 3.8 Flash

Google
5.0 out of 5 stars
Inkling 2 Small

Inkling 2 Small

Thinking Machines Lab
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About

Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google’s most intelligent Flash workhorse model, delivering significant improvements over 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic tasks, and critical multi-step reasoning in specialized domains. Built for long-horizon coding and autonomous agents, it can solve complex engineering problems end to end and delivers the dependability required for critical enterprise autonomy across specialized knowledge domains. The model shows stronger performance in quantitative and professional fields that require advanced analysis and reporting, as well as multi-step reasoning across STEM, humanities, and professional subjects. Its gains stem from a core design choice: Gemini 3.8 Flash works harder on complex tasks, executing additional reasoning steps and calling tools iteratively to maximize performance. At higher effort levels, it may use more tokens to pursue stronger results, while developers can select lower effort levels.

About

Inkling 2 Small is a multimodal AI model developed by Thinking Machines Lab for advanced reasoning, autonomous software engineering, visual understanding, and AI agent development. The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with 594 billion total parameters and 17 billion active parameters to balance intelligence and computational efficiency. It supports text and image inputs, a context window of up to one million tokens, and configurable reasoning effort for tasks requiring different levels of analysis. Its agentic capabilities enable autonomous code generation, debugging, website development, scientific research, and complex multistep workflows involving external tools. Inkling 2 Small also supports fine-tuning and reinforcement learning through Thinking Machines Lab's Tinker platform, allowing developers to customize the model for specialized applications.

Platforms Supported

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Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
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Linux Not Supported
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iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Audience

Developers, enterprises, and professional users wanting to build autonomous agents, solve complex coding tasks, and perform advanced multi-step reasoning across specialized domains

Audience

AI developers, machine learning engineers, software developers, autonomous agent researchers, data scientists, AI research laboratories, DevOps professionals, computational scientists, enterprise AI teams, and organizations seeking multimodal language models, long-context reasoning, AI coding agents, reinforcement learning, model fine-tuning, visual understanding, and autonomous research capabilities

Support

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Support

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API

Offers API Supported

API

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Pricing

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Pricing

$0.30 per million input tokens
$0.30 per million input tokens, $0.03 per million cached input tokens, and $1.00 per million output tokens
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Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 4.0 / 5
features 4.0 / 5

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ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
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Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • It holds onto the plan better than earlier Flash models, especially when a task involves multiple files, tools, and several rounds of reasoning. The 1M-token context window is also genuinely useful. I can throw much more of a repo, documentation set, or project history at it without constantly trimming context. I also like that Google kept Flash pricing aggressive. Gemini 3.8 Flash launched at the same introductory price as 3.7 Flash: $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, while still delivering a noticeable jump in coding and agentic capability.

Cons

  • The main downside is that it can use more tokens than 3.7 Flash, especially at higher thinking levels. Google even recommends dropping to lower effort or using 3.7 Flash when compute efficiency matters more than maximum accuracy.

Training

Documentation Supported
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Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
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Company Information

Google
United States
google.com

Company Information

Thinking Machines Lab
Founded: 2025
United States
thinkingmachines.ai/

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Categories

AI Coding Models Supported
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Multimodal Models Supported

Categories

Integrations

Bash Supported
Bind AI Supported
C# Supported
Cheaper Inference Supported
Gemini Supported
Gemini 3.8 Live Supported
Gemini Computer Use Supported
Gemini Spark Supported
Google Supported
Google AI Plus Supported
HTML Supported
Java Supported
JetBrains Junie Supported
Kotlin Supported
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Not Supported
R Supported
Replit Supported
Solidity Supported
Tinker Not Supported
XML Supported

Integrations

Bash Not Supported
Bind AI Not Supported
C# Not Supported
Cheaper Inference Not Supported
Gemini Not Supported
Gemini 3.8 Live Not Supported
Gemini Computer Use Not Supported
Gemini Spark Not Supported
Google Not Supported
Google AI Plus Not Supported
HTML Not Supported
Java Not Supported
JetBrains Junie Not Supported
Kotlin Not Supported
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Supported
R Not Supported
Replit Not Supported
Solidity Not Supported
Tinker Supported
XML Not Supported
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