Model comparison

Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3.8 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 54.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 34 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.8 Flash Google

61.8

Rank #11 Confirmed

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 34 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.8 Flash scores higher in 9 categories and Gemini 3 Pro in 1 category; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.8 Flash leads 76.9 to 52.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 89.2% for Gemini 3.8 Flash and 31.1% for Gemini 3 Pro.

Side by side

Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3 Pro specifications
Gemini 3.8 FlashGemini 3 Pro
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index61.854.8
Released2026-09-022025-11-18
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.75—
Output $ / M tokens$3.75—
Results tracked5067

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 59.2 (#15), Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGemini 3 Pro
LMArena WebDev15841440
WeirdML84.8%69.9%
LMArena Coding15101481
ALE-Bench1,2701,177
SWE-bench Verified—72.9%
DeepSWE73.8%—
FrontierCode41.2%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—74.2%
CursorBench39.6%—
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.7%
FrontierSWE19.6%—
SciCode56.6%—
GSO—18.6%
AlgoTune—1.83

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 41.8 (#21), Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGemini 3 Pro
Remote Labor Index5.8%1.3%
Vending-Bench 25,0945,478
Terminal-Bench—69.4%
APEX-Agents64.3%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—72.5%
GDPval—40.3%
τ²-bench Airline—80.5%
τ²-bench Banking—18%
τ²-bench Retail—75.9%
τ²-bench Telecom—91%
DeepResearch Bench—46.3%
BALROG—58.1%
GDP.pdf23.4%—
LMArena Search—1207
METR Time Horizons—71%

Reasoning Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 76.9 (#5), Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGemini 3 Pro
ARC-AGI-289.2%31.1%
NYT Connections (extended)97.4%94.4%
ARC-AGI-198.5%75%
CritPt18.3%6.9%
Chess Puzzles61%31%
LMArena Hard Prompts15081480
Epoch Capabilities Index156.71152.92
SimpleBench—76.4%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—80.1%
EnigmaEval—18.2%
Mystery Game Puzzles47%—
DTBench95.7%—
LMCA52.9%—
Surface Evolver Bench76.9%—
ForecastBench—61.2

Math Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 65.3 (#28), Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59)

Knowledge Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 74.8 (#2), Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGemini 3 Pro
GPQA Diamond95.4%92.6%
Humanity's Last Exam44.5%37.5%
LMArena Expert15241475
SimpleQA Verified69.7%—
MMLU-Pro—90.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—13.6%
GPQA (HELM)—80.3%

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 40.7 (#45), Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Vision13141305
GeoBench—84%
VPCT—91%
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly31.7%—
LMArena Document—1434

Multilingual Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 58.0 (#5), Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Non-English14911474
LMArena Chinese15541523
LMArena French14981492
LMArena German14931515
LMArena Japanese15021510
LMArena Korean14591448
LMArena Russian15151493
LMArena Spanish14851470

Instruction Following Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 78.0 (#13), Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Instruction Following14901458
IFEval—87.7%

Long Context Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 46.3 (#24), Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Longer Query15081471
CL-bench—15.8%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 72.2 (#15), Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Text14991479
LMArena Creative Writing14921482
EQ-Bench Creative Writing17481525
LMArena Multi-Turn15011484
WildBench—85.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.8 Flash better than Gemini 3 Pro?

Gemini 3.8 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 54.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.8 Flash or Gemini 3 Pro better for coding?

Gemini 3.8 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.2 versus 51.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3 Pro share?

34 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.8 Flash has 50 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Pro has 67.

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