# Gemini 3.8

17 Hacker News commenters recommended Gemini 3.8 and 6 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for strong writing and formatting, fast replies at low cost, and results they find better than rival models. Critics say it gives mid answers on hard questions.

## Why people recommend it

- Strong writing, formatting and commit text (2 comments): "Typography, use of lists, brevity, style, even the font choice on the web harness -- all of it is A tier or even S tier." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006928)) "Doing this has greatly improved my comment and commit text quality" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619736))
- Fast and cheap for its quality (2 comments): "Gemini 3.8 High also looks pretty good and is quite fast" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568400)) "Not much worse than SOTA, cheap, and fast too." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556626))
- Preferred over rival models by users (4 comments): "Opus and Gemini 3.8 (and now Argon) did a significantly better job." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276245)) "out of all examples Gemini 3.8 is the best for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49698371)) "I swear even Gemini 3.8 is slightly better." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881469))
- Solves hard coding tasks quickly (2 comments): "which also murders DeepSWE and Terminal Bench 2.0" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648388)) "LLM oneshoted it in about 45min" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803521))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Claude Opus](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-opus.md): 3331 recommend
- [OpenAI GPT](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gpt-5-5.md): 1205 recommend
- [Claude Sonnet](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-sonnet.md): 854 recommend
- [DeepSeek V4 Flash](https://hackerapproved.com/p/deepseek-v4-flash.md): 828 recommend
- [Fable](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fable.md): 823 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://gemini.google.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Gemini 3.8", https://hackerapproved.com/p/gemini-3-8/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).