Gemini 4 Carbon vs Gemini 3.8 Flash: Release Comparison

Name: Intelligence
Creator: Artificial Analysis
License: https://artificialanalysis.ai/docs/legal/Terms-of-Use.pdf

Comparison of the Gemini 4 Carbon and Gemini 3.8 Flash releases: 2 and 3 models respectively, each with different intelligence, performance, and pricing characteristics. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across all 5 models.

For intelligence, Gemini 4 Carbon scores highest: Gemini 4 Carbon (High) at 59, against Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) at 31 for Gemini 3.8 Flash.
For output speed, Gemini 3.8 Flash is fastest: Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) at 131 t/s, against Gemini 4 Carbon (High) at 95 t/s for Gemini 4 Carbon.
For cost per task, Gemini 3.8 Flash is cheapest: Gemini 3.8 Flash (Medium) at $6.26, against Gemini 4 Carbon (Medium) at $6.59 for Gemini 4 Carbon.

Model Playground

Releases compared


	Gemini 4 Carbon (high)	Gemini 4 Carbon (medium)	Gemini 3.8 Flash (high)	Gemini 3.8 Flash (medium)	Gemini 3.8 Flash (low)
Intelligence Index	59	58	31	30	22
Finance & Accounting	63	60	42	42	34
Strategy & Ops	61	58	47	47	35
Legal	62	59	42	42	33
Healthcare & Medical	--	--	38	38	31
Engineering	65	63	38	37	31
Economics	61	59	41	40	34
AA-Briefcase v1.1	1610	1602	1203	1183	1062
AutomationBench-AA	77.8%	77.6%	59.9%	60.9%	36.5%
Terminal-Bench 4.0	65.2%	60.6%	19.7%	19.7%	10.1%
FrontierCode 2.0	40.6%	39.5%	18.7%	16.5%	8.1%
AA-Omniscience v1.1	54	47	23	24	13
GDP.pdf	28.4%	29.6%	21.0%	22.8%	18.6%
HLE-Diamond	69.1%	67.4%	33.1%	29.1%	24.3%
CritPt v2 (Hard Subset)	63.0%	63.5%	43.5%	44.0%	31.5%
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1	64.8%	62.4%	10.0%	10.5%	8.1%

Cost per TaskUSD	$7.76	$6.59	$7.77	$6.26	--
Input PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$4.00	$4.00	$0.75	$0.75	$0.75
Output PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$20.00	$20.00	$3.75	$3.75	$3.75
Cache Hit PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$0.20	$0.20	$0.075	$0.075	$0.075
Cache Write PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$4.00	$4.00	$0.75	$0.75	$0.75

Output SpeedTokens/s	95	--	131	--	--
Time to First Tokens	137.57	--	24.89	--	--
Time to First Answer Tokens	137.57	--	24.89	--	--
End-to-End Response Times	142.86	--	28.71	--	--
Time per Tasks	1,295.46	--	740.45	--	--

Context Window	1M	1M	1M	1M	1M
Creator	Google	Google	Google	Google	Google
License	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary
Input Modality	Supports: text, image, speech, and video	Supports: text, image, speech, and video	Supports: text, image, speech, and video	Supports: text, image, speech, and video	Supports: text, image, speech, and video
Output Modality	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text
Providers

Updated

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better

No publicly available API

Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

No publicly available API

Cost per Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

No publicly available API

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 incorporates 9 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), and Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1

No publicly available API

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 includes: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task

Most attractive quadrant

Gemini 4 Carbon

Gemini 3.8 Flash

Pareto line

AA-Briefcase v1.1

AutomationBench-AA

Cost per Task (USD, Log Scale)

Weighted average cost per Intelligence Index task. Each evaluation’s cost is calculated from input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices, divided by task count, and weighted by its Intelligence Index weight.

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Segmented by token type · Lower is better

No publicly available API

Speed & Latency

Output Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

No publicly available API

Tokens per second received while the model is generating tokens (ie. after first chunk has been received from the API for models which support streaming).

Figures represent performance of the model's first-party API or the median across providers where a first-party API is not available.

Capability Scores

Capability Indexes

Measures the performance of models on specific capabilities and industries

Finance & Accounting Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, HLE-Diamond, AutomationBench-AA, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Strategy & Ops Index

Incorporates 4 evaluations: AutomationBench-AA, AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Legal Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, HLE-Diamond, GDP.pdf, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better

Healthcare & Medical Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, MLCR-AA, AutomationBench-AA, HLE-Diamond · Higher is better

Engineering Index

Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1, HLE-Diamond, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Briefcase v1.1 · Higher is better

Economics Index

Incorporates 4 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, HLE-Diamond, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Benchmarks

AA-PersonalityBenchNew

Personality Indexes

Each axis is one of 8 personality indexes: the mean of its traits’ Elo z-scores, percentile ranked from 1 to 100 across all models evaluated in the benchmark

Gemini 4 Carbon vs Gemini 3.8 Flash: Release Comparison

Intelligence

Speed

Cost per Task

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Speed & Latency

Output Speed

Output Speed

Model Performance Representation

Capability Scores

Capability Indexes

Benchmarks

AA-PersonalityBenchNew

Personality Indexes