Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Gemini 3.8 Flash

Wins 16 of 48 benchmarks
$0.93 / task
Wins 25 of 48 benchmarks
Humanity's Last Exam Humanity's Last Exam: Very hard expert questions across many fields, written to stump today’s models
Gemini 3.7 Flash39
Gemini 3.8 Flash42.1
Arena Text · overall Arena Text · overall: Human pairwise preferences in the stated text vote pool
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high1,488
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high1,496
Arena Text · Chinese Arena Text · chinese: Human pairwise preferences in the stated text vote pool
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high1,551
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high1,550.8
Arena Text · English Arena Text · english: Human pairwise preferences in the stated text vote pool
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high1,483.2
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high1,499
Arena Text · French Arena Text · french: Human pairwise preferences in the stated text vote pool
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high1,502
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high1,491.7
Arena Text · German Arena Text · german: Human pairwise preferences in the stated text vote pool
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high1,503.1
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high1,497.6
Arena Text · instruction following Arena Text · instruction following: Human pairwise preferences in the stated text vote pool
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high1,484.2
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high1,491
Arena Text · Japanese Arena Text · japanese: Human pairwise preferences in the stated text vote pool
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high1,511.7
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high1,506.3
Arena Text · Korean Arena Text · korean: Human pairwise preferences in the stated text vote pool
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high1,480.6
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high1,461.6
Arena Text · non-English Arena Text · non english: Human pairwise preferences in the stated text vote pool
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high1,484.9
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high1,491.1
Arena Text · Polish Arena Text · polish: Human pairwise preferences in the stated text vote pool
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high1,501.6
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high1,498.5
Arena Text · Russian Arena Text · russian: Human pairwise preferences in the stated text vote pool
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high1,518.2
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high1,514.4
Arena Text · Spanish Arena Text · spanish: Human pairwise preferences in the stated text vote pool
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high1,490.8
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high1,485.7
AA Omniscience Index AA Omniscience Index: Scores factual knowledge while penalizing incorrect answers to encourage admitting uncertainty
Gemini 3.7 Flash23.7
Gemini 3.8 Flash28.6
SimpleQA Verified v1 SimpleQA Verified v1: Accuracy on short factual questions with verified answers, answered without web access
Gemini 3.7 Flash73.2
Gemini 3.8 Flash74.6
CritPt (physics) CritPt (physics): Research-level physics problems that need many careful reasoning steps
Gemini 3.7 Flash9.4
Gemini 3.8 Flash12.3
AA Intelligence Index 4.3.2 AA Intelligence Index 4.3.2: Artificial Analysis combines tests of knowledge, reasoning, coding and tool use into one score
Gemini 3.7 Flash39.6
Gemini 3.8 Flash39.8
AA Omniscience · Accuracy AA Omniscience · Accuracy: Measures correct answers on the AA Omniscience factual knowledge test
Gemini 3.7 Flash54
Gemini 3.8 Flash53
AA Omniscience · Hallucination Rate AA Omniscience · Hallucination Rate: Measures how often attempted answers are incorrect on the AA Omniscience factual knowledge test · lower is better
Gemini 3.7 Flash65.9
Gemini 3.8 Flash51.9
AA-LCR (long context) 1.1 AA-LCR (long context) 1.1: Questions that need reading and connecting facts across very long documents (around 100K tokens)
Gemini 3.7 Flash83
Gemini 3.8 Flash84
GDP.pdf · AA all-pass GDP.pdf · AA all-pass: Models reason over professional PDF documents; an attempt passes only when every atomic criterion passes
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high23.6
Gemini 3.8 Flash22.8
MLCR-AA MLCR-AA: Models synthesize long medical records; the headline credits concise answers judged both accurate and complete
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high15
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high21.7
ARC-AGI-1 · public evaluation ARC-AGI-1 · public-eval: Models infer transformations from examples and solve unseen grid puzzles; the evaluation split is explicit
Gemini 3.7 Flash95.3
Gemini 3.8 Flash97.8
ARC-AGI-1 · semi-private ARC-AGI-1 · semi-private: Models infer transformations from examples and solve unseen grid puzzles; the evaluation split is explicit
Gemini 3.7 Flash91.2
Gemini 3.8 Flash97.5
ARC-AGI-2 · public evaluation ARC-AGI-2 · public-eval: Models infer transformations from examples and solve unseen grid puzzles; the evaluation split is explicit
Gemini 3.7 Flash68.6
Gemini 3.8 Flash87.5
ARC-AGI-2 · semi-private ARC-AGI-2 · semi-private: Models infer transformations from examples and solve unseen grid puzzles; the evaluation split is explicit
Gemini 3.7 Flash63.8
Gemini 3.8 Flash82.9
Chess Puzzles Chess Puzzles: Models choose the best next move from a novel chess position
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high66
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high58
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v2) FrontierMath Tier 4 (v2): Models solve expert-written advanced mathematics problems on the named tier and edition
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high36.6
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high22
FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 (v2) FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 (v2): Models solve expert-written advanced mathematics problems on the named tier and edition
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high71.6
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high68.4
Mystery Game Puzzles Mystery Game Puzzles: Models choose the best move in puzzle positions from an undisclosed game
Gemini 3.7 Flash · high37
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high47
MathArena · ArXivMath · April 2026 MathArena · arxiv · 04/2026: Answer accuracy on the named mathematics competition under the recorded effort
Gemini 3.7 Flash57.5
Gemini 3.8 Flash64.2
MathArena · ArXivMath · June 2026 MathArena · arxiv · 06/2026: Answer accuracy on the named mathematics competition under the recorded effort
Gemini 3.7 Flash62.5
Gemini 3.8 Flash67.4
MathArena · ArXivMath · May 2026 MathArena · arxiv · 05/2026: Answer accuracy on the named mathematics competition under the recorded effort
Gemini 3.7 Flash47.5
Gemini 3.8 Flash58.3
MathArena · BrokenArXiv · April 2026 MathArena · arxiv_false · 04/2026: Answer accuracy on the named mathematics competition under the recorded effort
Gemini 3.7 Flash19.3
Gemini 3.8 Flash33.6
MathArena · BrokenArXiv · June 2026 MathArena · arxiv_false · 06/2026: Answer accuracy on the named mathematics competition under the recorded effort
Gemini 3.7 Flash11.1
Gemini 3.8 Flash20.8
MathArena · BrokenArXiv · May 2026 MathArena · arxiv_false · 05/2026: Answer accuracy on the named mathematics competition under the recorded effort
Gemini 3.7 Flash8.5
Gemini 3.8 Flash19
MathArena · ArXivLean · June 2026 MathArena · arxivlean · 06/2026: Answer accuracy on the named mathematics competition under the recorded effort
Gemini 3.7 Flash21.7
Gemini 3.8 Flash19.6
Vals LegalBench Vals LegalBench: Legal reasoning and legal-language understanding on LegalBench
Gemini 3.7 Flash87.3
Gemini 3.8 Flash87
Vals MedCode Vals MedCode: Medical coding accuracy on patient encounters
Gemini 3.7 Flash53.4
Gemini 3.8 Flash48.1
Vals MedScribe Vals MedScribe: Accuracy of clinical notes produced from consultation transcripts
Gemini 3.7 Flash83.9
Gemini 3.8 Flash84.5
Vals Legal Research Bench Vals Legal Research Bench: Grounded legal research; a task passes only if all criteria pass
Gemini 3.7 Flash34.6
Gemini 3.8 Flash38.9
ARC-AGI-3 · semi-private ARC-AGI-3 · semi-private: Measures interactive game solving through relative human action efficiency
Gemini 3.7 Flash—
Gemini 3.8 Flash4
FrontierMath Erdos FrontierMath Erdos: Models solve expert-written advanced mathematics problems on the named tier and edition
Gemini 3.7 Flash—
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high0
MathArena · ArXivMath · August 2026 MathArena · arxiv · 08/2026: Answer accuracy on the named mathematics competition under the recorded effort
Gemini 3.7 Flash—
Gemini 3.8 Flash40.4
MathArena · ArXivMath · September 2026 MathArena · arxiv · 09/2026: Answer accuracy on the named mathematics competition under the recorded effort
Gemini 3.7 Flash—
Gemini 3.8 Flash50
MathArena · BrokenArXiv · August 2026 MathArena · arxiv_false · 08/2026: Answer accuracy on the named mathematics competition under the recorded effort
Gemini 3.7 Flash—
Gemini 3.8 Flash27.4
MathArena · BrokenArXiv · September 2026 MathArena · arxiv_false · 09/2026: Answer accuracy on the named mathematics competition under the recorded effort
Gemini 3.7 Flash—
Gemini 3.8 Flash26.7
Vals Science Index Vals Science Index: Scientific problem solving across the index’s component evaluations
Gemini 3.7 Flash—
Gemini 3.8 Flash35.8

Specs

SpecGemini 3.7 FlashGemini 3.8 Flash
Input, per 1M$0.75!$0.75
Output, per 1M$3.75!$3.75
Cost per task?—$0.93
Context1M1M
WeightsClosedClosed
ReleasedAug 2026Sep 2026
See images✓✓
Read PDFsPartial✓
Hear audio✓✓
Watch video✓✓
Call tools✓✓
Force a tool callPartialPartial
Return strict JSON✓✓
Search the web?✓
Run code?✓
Use a computer??

What breaks when you switch

Gemini 3.7 Flash → Gemini 3.8 Flash
Sampling parameters are ignored›

temperature, top_p and top_k are ignored now and will cause HTTP 400 in future generations; remove them from requests.

No minimal thinking level›

The minimal thinking level returns an error; avoid minimal.

Gemini 3.8 Flash → Gemini 3.7 Flash
Nothing known.