Gemini 3.8 Flash vs GPT-6.1 Sol

$0.93 / task
Wins 1 of 19 benchmarks
$0.21 / task
Wins 11 of 19 benchmarks
AutomationBench-AA AutomationBench-AA: Agents orchestrate SaaS workflows through APIs; objectives receive credit only when the task has no guardrail violation
Gemini 3.8 Flash60.9
GPT-6.1 Sol62.6
GDPval-AA (work tasks) 2.1 GDPval-AA (work tasks) 2.1: Real work tasks from many professions (reports, spreadsheets, analyses), graded against expert work
Gemini 3.8 Flash46.1
GPT-6.1 Sol47.5
AA Analyst Agent AA Analyst Agent: Data-analyst tasks: the model explores data with tools and reports findings
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high46.3
GPT-6.1 Sol · max50
Terminal-Bench 4.0 Terminal-Bench 4.0 · source setting 2: Agents use a terminal to complete executable coding, system administration and research tasks in the 4.0 suite
Gemini 3.8 Flash19.7
GPT-6.1 Sol48
Terminal-Bench Science 0.1 Terminal-Bench Science 0.1: Agents complete expert-authored research workflows across five scientific domains in a terminal
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high10
GPT-6.1 Sol · max58.1
AA-Briefcase 1.1 · Elo AA-Briefcase 1.1 · Elo: Agents produce professional deliverables; blind pairwise comparisons produce the source Elo rating
Gemini 3.8 Flash1,181.5
GPT-6.1 Sol1,361.2
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 3.8 Flash84
GPT-6.1 Sol83.3
DeepSWE 1.1 DeepSWE 1.1: Agents change repository code to resolve software engineering tasks under the stated DeepSWE edition
Gemini 3.8 Flash71
GPT-6.1 Sol · max72.3
FrontierCode 1.1 FrontierCode 1.1: Agents implement changes in real repositories, graded against maintainer-defined requirements
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high36.4
GPT-6.1 Sol · max49.1
Harvey LAB-AA 1.1 Harvey LAB-AA 1.1: Legal agents work from case documents; every rubric criterion must pass and material hallucinations receive no credit
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high0
GPT-6.1 Sol · max6.9
SWE-bench Pro (v2 full) SWE-bench Pro (v2 full): Agents resolve repository issues under the network-locked v2 protocol; full and 51-task Hard results are separate
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high94.9
GPT-6.1 Sol · xhigh96.1
Furniture Assembly Furniture Assembly: Models inspect furniture assembly photos, identify incorrect builds and locate the mistaken step
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high31.7
GPT-6.1 Sol · max80
τ³-Banking · AA τ³-Banking · AA: Agents retrieve banking knowledge and execute tools to resolve customer-support workflows
Gemini 3.8 Flash45.8
GPT-6.1 Sol—
ITBench SRE ITBench SRE: IT incident tasks: diagnose and fix broken systems like a site-reliability engineer
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high52.5
GPT-6.1 Sol—
SWE-bench Pro (v2 hard) SWE-bench Pro (v2 hard): Agents resolve repository issues under the network-locked v2 protocol; full and 51-task Hard results are separate
Gemini 3.8 Flash · high58.8
GPT-6.1 Sol—
EBR Bench EBR Bench: Agents learn to play Earthborne Rangers across repeated playthroughs
Gemini 3.8 Flash—
GPT-6.1 Sol · max54.3
SpireClimb SpireClimb: Agents play Slay the Spire under the named game and difficulty setting
Gemini 3.8 Flash—
GPT-6.1 Sol · max24.7
SpireClimb StS1 A20 Heart SpireClimb StS1 A20 Heart: Agents play Slay the Spire under the named game and difficulty setting
Gemini 3.8 Flash—
GPT-6.1 Sol · max20
SpireClimb StS2 A10 SpireClimb StS2 A10: Agents play Slay the Spire under the named game and difficulty setting
Gemini 3.8 Flash—
GPT-6.1 Sol · max29.3

Specs

SpecGemini 3.8 FlashGPT-6.1 Sol
Input, per 1M!$0.75$2
Output, per 1M!$3.75$10
Cost per task?$0.93$0.21
Speed, tok/s—45
Context1M1.05M
WeightsClosedClosed
ReleasedSep 2026Sep 2026
See images✓✓
Read PDFs✓Partial
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 3.8 Flash → GPT-6.1 Sol
Remove unsupported parameters›

With reasoning enabled, remove temperature, top_p and top_logprobs, plus Chat Completions logprobs or Responses message.output_text.logprobs includes.

Responses API for tool calling · Chat Completions›

Use Responses for tools; Chat Completions supports this model without tool calling.

No none or minimal reasoning›

The none and minimal reasoning efforts are unsupported; choose low, medium, high, xhigh or max.

More than 272K input tokens›

Prompts above 272K input tokens charge 2× input and cache rates and 1.5× output rates for the entire request.

Cache writes billed at 1.25x›

Cache writes cost 1.25× the uncached input token rate.

Ultrafast prices 6x Standard›

Ultrafast mode costs 6× Standard token prices.

GPT-6.1 Sol → Gemini 3.8 Flash
Context: 1.05M → 1M
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.