vs
5:11
overall capability wins (2 ties across 18 scored). Gemini 3.8 Flash leads overall.
- Reasoning3:3
- Coding2:4
- Arena0:1
- Agents0:2
- Tool use0:1
- Composite indices0:2
Verdict
Gemini 3.8 Flash leads coding (widest gap: +8.4 on DeepSWE); Gemini 3.8 Flash ranks higher on LMArena (+3 Elo).
- Gemini 3.8 Flash leads coding (widest gap: +8.4 on DeepSWE)
- Gemini 3.8 Flash ranks higher on LMArena (+3 Elo)
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Gemini 3.7 Flash
- $1.69
- Gemini 3.8 Flash
- $1.69
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Family
Gemini
Gemini
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Aug 13, 2026
Sep 2, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
2026-03
2026-03
API / provider
Modalities
text, image, audio, video → text
text, image, audio, video → text
Specs
Context window
1.0M
1.0M
Max output
66K
66K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.75
$0.75
Output $/1M
$3.75
$3.75
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$1.50
$1.50
Speed
tok/s
-
-
TTFT (s)
-
-
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
94.5
95.3
Humanity's Last Exam
47.9
47.8
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
55.3
54.6
AA-LCR v1.1
81.7
81.3
CritPt
14.3
18.3
MMMU-Pro
85.5
85.6
IFBench
—
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
85.8
87.6
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
14.9
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
57.2
56.6
CursorBench
61.6
69.2
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
65.3
73.7
WebDev Arena
1,588
1,567
Terminal-Bench 4.0
11.2
19.1
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,490
1,493
| Metric | Gemini 3.7 Flash | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | — | ||
| Family | Gemini | Gemini | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Aug 13, 2026 | Sep 2, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2026-03 | 2026-03 | — |
| API / provider | — | ||
| Modalities | text, image, audio, video → text | text, image, audio, video → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 1.0M | 1.0M | tie |
| Max output | 66K | 66K | tie |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.75 | $0.75 | tie |
| Output $/1M | $3.75 | $3.75 | tie |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $1.50 | $1.50 | tie |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | - | - | — |
| TTFT (s) | - | - | — |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 94.5 | 95.3 | B +0.8 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 47.9 | 47.8 | A +0.1 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 55.3 | 54.6 | A +0.7 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 81.7 | 81.3 | A +0.4 pts |
| CritPt | 14.3 | 18.3 | B +4.0 pts |
| MMMU-Pro | 85.5 | 85.6 | B +0.1 pts |
| IFBench | — | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 85.8 | 87.6 | B +1.8 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | 14.9 | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 57.2 | 56.6 | A +0.6 pts |
| CursorBench | 61.6 | 69.2 | B +7.6 pts |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | 65.3 | 73.7 | B +8.4 pts |
| WebDev Arena | 1,588 | 1,567 | A +21 Elo |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 11.2 | 19.1 | B +7.9 pts |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,490 | 1,493 | B +3 Elo |
Gemini 3.7 Flash
- Context
- 1.0M / 66K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.75 / $3.75
- Speed
- —
- Modalities
- text, image, audio, video → text
- License
- Proprietary
Google's Aug 13, 2026 workhorse Flash - algorithmic gains over 3.6 Flash for coding, knowledge work, and web development; introductory $0.75/$3.75 through Dec 31, 2026 (then $1.50/$7.50).
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).
Benchmark charts
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