Google · Efficient
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Google's fast multimodal model for agentic workloads, including coding, tool use, image understanding, PDF and document extraction, audio, and video. Its capabilities, limits, reasoning behavior, and pricing currently mirror Gemini 3.7 Flash.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Video input
- Input
- Text, Images, Video, Audio
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- minimal · low · medium · high
- Discovery tier
- Efficient
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.75
- Output
- $3.75
- Cache read
- $0.075
- Cache write
- $0.0417
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 65.5K
- Average output (7 days)
- 1.2K tokens
- Longer than 79% of 465 models
Side by side
Gemini 3.8 Flash compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogleThis model | Muse Spark 1.2MetaRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | |
| Discovery tier | Efficient | Frontier |
| Added | Sep 2, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1.05MBest | 1M |
| Max output | 65.54K | 65.54K |
| Average output | 1.2K tokens | 172 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.75Best | $1.25 |
| Output | $3.75Best | $4.25 |
| Cache read | $0.075Best | $0.15 |
| Cache write | $0.0417 | — |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 164.7 tok/s | — |
| Time to first token | 5.9 s | — |
| Request success (24h) | 99.8% | — |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 39.8Best | 39.6 |
| Coding Index | 74.1Best | 72.2 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| PDF input | Yes | Yes |
| Audio input | Yes | Yes |
| Video input | Yes | Yes |
| Parallel tools | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | minimal, low, medium, high | minimal, low, medium, high, xhigh |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Muse Spark 1.2
Intelligence Index
- Gemini 3.8 Flash39.8
- Muse Spark 1.239.6
Gemini 3.8 Flash tested at medium reasoning effort
Gemini 3.8 Flash: Better than 84% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 74.1Top
- Muse Spark 1.2: 72.2
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 60.9%Top
- Muse Spark 1.2: 40.6%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 31.1%Top
- Muse Spark 1.2: 15.7%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 1,181 Elo
- Muse Spark 1.2: 1,327 EloTop
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 1,423 Elo
- Muse Spark 1.2: 1,475 EloTop
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 22.8%Top
- Muse Spark 1.2: 17.4%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 84.0%Top
- Muse Spark 1.2: 79.0%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 12.8%Top
- Muse Spark 1.2: 7.2%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 42.1%
- Muse Spark 1.2: 45.5%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 93.5%Top
- Muse Spark 1.2: 90.4%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 19.7%Top
- Muse Spark 1.2: 7.1%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 55.1%
- Muse Spark 1.2: 57.4%Top
Legacy evaluations
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 84.0%Top
- Muse Spark 1.2: 79.0%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Gemini 3.8 Flash was tested at medium reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis
- Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Muse Spark 1.2
| Leaderboard | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Combined | #16 · 9.3% | #18 · 6.2% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Combined leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Muse Spark 1.2
| Leaderboard | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Creative writing | #19 · 15.2% | Not in top 20 |
| Math | #3 · 41.9% | Not in top 20 |
| Coding | Not in top 20 | #17 · 16.8% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Use cases leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Muse Spark 1.2
| Leaderboard | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | #8 · 1495.7 | #10 · 1491.4 |
| Math | #3 · 1525.9 | Not in top 20 |
| Longer Query | #7 · 1509.9 | Not in top 20 |
| Creative Writing | #9 · 1485.1 | Not in top 20 |
| Instruction Following | #11 · 1490.2 | Not in top 20 |
| Hard Prompts | #8 · 1517.3 | #13 · 1511.5 |
| Chinese | #12 · 1538.3 | Not in top 20 |
| English | #9 · 1498.0 | #13 · 1492.1 |
| Exclude Ties | #9 · 1513.6 | #10 · 1507.0 |
| Expert | #12 · 1527.5 | Not in top 20 |
| German | #8 · 1501.8 | Not in top 20 |
| Hard Prompts English | #11 · 1514.0 | #17 · 1509.2 |
| Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media | #9 · 1477.4 | Not in top 20 |
| Industry Life And Physical And Social Science | #9 · 1519.3 | #14 · 1508.6 |
| Industry Mathematical | #10 · 1513.9 | Not in top 20 |
| Industry Medicine And Healthcare | #10 · 1507.7 | #9 · 1512.4 |
| Industry Software And It Services | #18 · 1517.5 | #7 · 1532.2 |
| Industry Writing And Literature And Language | #9 · 1490.5 | Not in top 20 |
| Japanese | #7 · 1508.3 | Not in top 20 |
| Korean | #13 · 1459.7 | #9 · 1464.8 |
| Multi Turn | #7 · 1504.4 | #6 · 1511.2 |
| Non English | #8 · 1486.3 | #11 · 1483.8 |
| Polish | #13 · 1492.9 | Not in top 20 |
| Russian | #5 · 1515.1 | #17 · 1493.1 |
| Spanish | #18 · 1478.0 | #11 · 1484.2 |
| Vision Style Control Overall | #8 · 1291.0 | #7 · 1292.7 |
| Vision Style Control · Chinese | #1 · 1383.7 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Creative Writing Vision | #16 · 1275.7 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Diagram | #2 · 1333.3 | #16 · 1316.5 |
| Vision Style Control · English | #4 · 1291.5 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Homework | #5 · 1338.4 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Humor | #3 · 1297.9 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Ocr | #2 · 1316.0 | #7 · 1306.6 |
| WebDev · Image To Webdev | #15 · 1592.7 | Not in top 20 |
| Coding | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1541.3 |
| French | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1511.4 |
| Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations | Not in top 20 | #3 · 1502.1 |
| Industry Legal And Government | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1522.7 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
- Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Muse Spark 1.2
| Leaderboard | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | #19 · 157.4 | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Epoch AI leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Epoch AI
- Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Muse Spark 1.2
| Leaderboard | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-1 | #3 · 98.5% | Not in top 20 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | #10 · 89.2% | Not in top 20 |
| ARC-AGI-3 (Default harness) | #6 · 10.4% | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on ARC Prize leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.ARC Prize
- Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Muse Spark 1.2
| Leaderboard | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Game Development | #19 · 1305 | #20 · 1302 |
| Website | #19 · 1300 | #12 · 1312 |
| UI Component | #14 · 1313 | #17 · 1295 |
| SVG | #11 · 1292 | #14 · 1280 |
| 3D | #20 · 1292 | #19 · 1299 |
| ASCII Art | #12 · 1266 | #6 · 1278 |
| Web Apps | #12 · 1239 | #17 · 1221 |
| Full Stack | #10 · 1244 | #15 · 1210 |
| Mobile Apps | #9 · 1235 | Not in top 20 |
| Data Visualization | Not in top 20 | #7 · 1334 |
| Agentic Game Dev | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1142 |
| Native Apps | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1224 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Design Arena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Design Arena
- Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Muse Spark 1.2
| Leaderboard | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Creative Writing v3 | Not in top 20 | #19 · 1842 |
| Longform Writing | Not in top 20 | #13 · 81.5 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on EQ-Bench leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.EQ-Bench
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 164.7 tok/s
- Faster than 80% of 250 models
- Time to first token
- 5.9 s
- Quicker than 27% of 250 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 9.6%
- About $0.69 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 99.8%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "google/gemini-3.8-flash",
"reasoning_effort": "medium",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="google/gemini-3.8-flash",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Related models
Other Google models, starting with the same family.