vs
0:8
overall capability wins (0 ties across 8 scored). Gemini 3.8 Flash leads overall.
- Reasoning0:4
- Coding0:1
- Arena0:1
- Pricing3:0
- Specs0:2
Verdict
Gemini 3.8 Flash leads coding (widest gap: +23.3 on SciCode); Gemini 3.8 Flash ranks higher on LMArena (+133 Elo); Gemini 3.8 Flash offers larger context (1.0M vs 1M).
- Gemini 3.8 Flash leads coding (widest gap: +23.3 on SciCode)
- Gemini 3.8 Flash ranks higher on LMArena (+133 Elo)
- Gemini 3.8 Flash offers larger context (1.0M vs 1M)
- Gemini 3.8 Flash allows ~8.0x more max output (66K vs 8K)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash is ~8.6x cheaper on a blended token basis than Gemini 3.8 Flash
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Gemini 2.0 Flash
- $0.20
- Gemini 3.8 Flash
- $1.69
Gemini 2.0 Flash is about 8.4x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Family
Gemini
Gemini
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Dec 11, 2024
Sep 2, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
2026-03
API / provider
Modalities
text, image, audio, video → text
text, image, audio, video → text
Specs
Context window
1M
1.0M
Max output
8K
66K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.10
$0.75
Output $/1M
$0.40
$3.75
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.18
$1.50
Speed
tok/s
180
-
TTFT (s)
0.2
-
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
62.3
95.3
Humanity's Last Exam
4.3
47.8
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
23.5
54.6
AA-LCR v1.1
31.3
81.3
CritPt
—
18.3
MMMU-Pro
—
85.6
IFBench
40.2
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
13.5
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
87.6
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
33.3
56.6
CursorBench
—
69.2
SWE-Rebench
9.1
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
73.7
WebDev Arena
—
1,567
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
19.1
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,360
1,493
| Metric | Gemini 2.0 Flash | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | — | ||
| Family | Gemini | Gemini | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Dec 11, 2024 | Sep 2, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | 2026-03 | — |
| API / provider | — | ||
| Modalities | text, image, audio, video → text | text, image, audio, video → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 1M | 1.0M | B +49K |
| Max output | 8K | 66K | B +57K |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.10 | $0.75 | A +$0.65 |
| Output $/1M | $0.40 | $3.75 | A +$3.35 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.18 | $1.50 | A +$1.32 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 180 | - | — |
| TTFT (s) | 0.2 | - | — |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 62.3 | 95.3 | B +33.0 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.3 | 47.8 | B +43.5 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 23.5 | 54.6 | B +31.1 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 31.3 | 81.3 | B +50.0 pts |
| CritPt | — | 18.3 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 85.6 | — |
| IFBench | 40.2 | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | 13.5 | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 87.6 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 33.3 | 56.6 | B +23.3 pts |
| CursorBench | — | 69.2 | — |
| SWE-Rebench | 9.1 | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | 73.7 | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | 1,567 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | 19.1 | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,360 | 1,493 | B +133 Elo |
Gemini 2.0 Flash
- Context
- 1M / 8K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.10 / $0.40
- Speed
- 180 tok/s · 0.2s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image, audio, video → text
- License
- Proprietary
Agentic multimodal Flash that introduced native tool use and image generation in the Gemini API.
Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Context
- 1.0M / 66K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.75 / $3.75
- Speed
- —
- Modalities
- text, image, audio, video → text
- License
- Proprietary
Google's Sep 2, 2026 Flash update over 3.7 Flash - gains on long-horizon software engineering, agentic knowledge work, and computer use; introductory $0.75/$3.75 through Dec 31, 2026 (then $1.50/$7.50).
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