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Gemini 3.8 Flash: Release Intelligence, Performance & Price

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Model summary

Intelligence

41
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
4 out of 4 units for Intelligence.

Speed

141.5
Output tokens per second
4 out of 4 units for Speed.

Cost

In $0.75Out $3.75Cache Discount 90%
$1.24
Cost per Intelligence Index task
3 out of 4 units for Cost.

Verbosity

170M
Output tokens from Intelligence Index
4 out of 4 units for Verbosity.

The Gemini 3.8 Flash release offers 3 models, each with different intelligence, performance, and pricing characteristics. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across the 3 models.

  • For intelligence, the top model of Gemini 3.8 Flash is Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) at 41.
  • For output speed, the fastest model is Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) at 142 t/s.
  • For latency, Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) at 24.48s offers the lowest time to first answer token.
  • For pricing, Gemini 3.8 Flash (Medium) at $0.93 offers the lowest cost per task. Prices vary up to 1.3x across models.

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better
Output tokens per second · Higher is better
Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 incorporates 10 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, GDPval-AA v2.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task
Most attractive quadrant
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Pareto line

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

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

Speed & Latency

Output Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

Capability Scores

Capability Indexes

Measures the performance of models on specific capabilities and industries
Finance & Accounting Index

Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, Humanity's Last Exam, AutomationBench-AA, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Strategy & Ops Index

Incorporates 6 evaluations: GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience, AutomationBench-AA, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Legal Index

Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, Humanity's Last Exam, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better

Healthcare & Medical Index

Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, MLCR-AA, Humanity's Last Exam, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better

Engineering Index

Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, Humanity's Last Exam, CritPt, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, Terminal-Bench 4.0 · Higher is better

Economics Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, Humanity's Last Exam, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-LCR v1.1 · Higher is better

Intelligence Evaluations

Intelligence evaluations measured independently by Artificial Analysis · Higher is better
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Agentic knowledge work, (Elo-500)/2000

Agentic SaaS workflows

Agentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000

Reasoning & knowledge

Professional document reasoning, All-pass

Agentic coding & terminal use

Long context reasoning

SciCodeUnder review

Coding

CritPtUnder review

Physics reasoning

Agentic scientific research workflows in a terminal

Agentic software engineering in open-source repositories

Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents

Legal agentic work, Hallucination-Gated All-Pass Rate

Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis

Medical long context reasoning

Visual reasoning

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Further details

Weights
Provider Benchmarks
Gemini 3.8 Flash (High)
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41
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1M
$0.6
142
Not available
Google
Gemini 3.8 Flash (Medium)
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40
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1M
$0.6
-
Not available
Google
Gemini 3.8 Flash (Low)
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33
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1M
$0.6
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Not available
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