Model comparison

Gemini 3.8 Flash vs GPT-5.4 Pro

Gemini 3.8 Flash and GPT-5.4 Pro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (59.5 vs 58.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.8 Flash Google

59.5

Rank #13 Confirmed

GPT-5.4 Pro OpenAI

58.8

Rank #16 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.8 Flash scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-5.4 Pro in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 3.8 Flash leads 56.4 to 42.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath Tier 4: 22% for Gemini 3.8 Flash and 58.5% for GPT-5.4 Pro.
  • Gemini 3.8 Flash is cheaper at $0.75 / $3.75 per million input/output tokens, against $30 / $180 for GPT-5.4 Pro.
  • GPT-5.4 Pro accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1.05M.

Side by side

Gemini 3.8 Flash and GPT-5.4 Pro specifications
Gemini 3.8 FlashGPT-5.4 Pro
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index59.558.8
Released2026-09-022026-03-05
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1.05M
Max output66K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$30
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$180
Results tracked4616

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 56.4 (#17), GPT-5.4 Pro: 42.6 (#89)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGPT-5.4 Pro
DeepSWE73.8%—
FrontierCode41.2%—
CursorBench39.6%—
LMArena WebDev1581—
FrontierSWE19.6%—
SciCode56.6%—
WeirdML—57.4%
LMArena Coding1512—
ALE-Bench1,270—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 40.3 (#22), GPT-5.4 Pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGPT-5.4 Pro
APEX-Agents64.3%—
GDP.pdf23.4%—
Vending-Bench 25,094—

Reasoning GPT-5.4 Pro leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 64.7 (#13), GPT-5.4 Pro: 71.0 (#10)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGPT-5.4 Pro
CritPt18.3%30%
Chess Puzzles61%58.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index157.13159.12
ARC-AGI-2—83.3%
SimpleBench—74.1%
NYT Connections (extended)97.4%—
ARC-AGI-1—94.5%
EnigmaEval—23.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts1506—
Mystery Game Puzzles47%—
DTBench95.7%—
LMCA52.9%—
Surface Evolver Bench76.9%—

Math GPT-5.4 Pro leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 65.2 (#22), GPT-5.4 Pro: 72.0 (#17)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGPT-5.4 Pro
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)68.4%82.5%
FrontierMath Tier 422%58.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%—
ProofBench48%—
LMArena Math1528—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—50%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—37.5%

Knowledge Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 74.9 (#2), GPT-5.4 Pro: 68.3 (#6)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGPT-5.4 Pro
GPQA Diamond95.4%94.6%
Humanity's Last Exam44.5%44.3%
SimpleQA Verified69.7%46.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.3%
LMArena Expert1529—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 40.9 (#33), GPT-5.4 Pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGPT-5.4 Pro
LMArena Vision1312—
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly31.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 57.9 (#5), GPT-5.4 Pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGPT-5.4 Pro
LMArena Non-English1486—
LMArena Chinese1547—
LMArena French1502—
LMArena German1470—
LMArena Japanese1505—
LMArena Korean1479—
LMArena Russian1507—
LMArena Spanish1492—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 78.2 (#11), GPT-5.4 Pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGPT-5.4 Pro
LMArena Instruction Following1489—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 46.2 (#23), GPT-5.4 Pro: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGPT-5.4 Pro
LMArena Longer Query1506—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 72.1 (#16), GPT-5.4 Pro: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGPT-5.4 Pro
LMArena Text1494—
LMArena Creative Writing1485—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1748—
LMArena Multi-Turn1503—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.8 Flash better than GPT-5.4 Pro?

Gemini 3.8 Flash and GPT-5.4 Pro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (59.5 vs 58.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.8 Flash or GPT-5.4 Pro?

Gemini 3.8 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens; GPT-5.4 Pro lists at $30 and $180.

Is Gemini 3.8 Flash or GPT-5.4 Pro better for coding?

Gemini 3.8 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 56.4 versus 42.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.4 Pro does, with 1.05M tokens against 1.05M.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.8 Flash and GPT-5.4 Pro share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.8 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.4 Pro has 16.

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