Gemini 3.8 Flash vs GPT-5.4 Pro
Full profiles: Gemini 3.8 Flash (Google) and GPT-5.4 Pro (OpenAI): every benchmark, price and rank.
Updated · Data from 10 sources
As of 24 Oct 2026, Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) and GPT-5.4 Pro are neck and neck on quality (64.4 vs 63.3 on the BenchLeader Index, inside the ±5.2 margin of error), and Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) costs 45× less, which makes it the better buy for most workloads. Gemini 3.8 Flash (high)'s current price runs until 31 Dec 2026; from 1 Jan 2027 Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) costs 23× less ($3.00 vs $67.50 per 1M blended).
Gemini 3.8 Flash benchmarks 
GPT-5.4 Pro benchmarks Which to pick for…
The pick's numbers come first. Category scores on the BenchLeader scale (50 is the average model, 15 points one standard deviation). High confidence means a lead of half a standard deviation or more; under one point is called either.
| Use case | Pick | Why | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reasoning | GPT-5.4 Pro | 73 vs 68 category score | Medium |
| Knowledge | GPT-5.4 Pro | 74 vs 68 category score | Medium |
| Images and other media | GPT-5.4 Pro | 70 vs 68 category score | Medium |
| Chat quality (human preference) | – | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash has an Arena rating (69 category score) | Not comparable |
| Lowest cost | Gemini 3.8 Flash | $1.50 vs $67.50 per 1M blended; agentic coding session $0.060 vs $2.52; from 1 Jan 2027: $3.00 vs $67.50 | – |
| Fastest first answer | GPT-5.4 Pro | 6.1 s (GPT-5.4 Pro) vs 25.1 s (Gemini 3.8 Flash (high)) to the first answer token | – |
| High volume on a budget | Neither flagship | A smaller model is usually the better fit: Cheapest good LLMs, Fastest LLMs | – |
Key differences
- Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) and GPT-5.4 Pro are neck and neck on quality (64.4 vs 63.3, within the ±5.2 margin).
- Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) is stronger in agents & tools, coding, composite, human preference, long context, maths.
- GPT-5.4 Pro is stronger in knowledge, multimodal, reasoning, instruction following.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) is 45× cheaper ($1.50 vs $67.50 per 1M blended) until 31 Dec 2026, then $3.00 vs $67.50 from 1 Jan 2027.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) streams 20.2× faster (141 vs 7 tokens per second).
At a glance
| Spec | Gemini 3.8 Flash | GPT-5.4 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | OpenAI | |
| Released | 2 Sept 2026 | 4 Mar 2026 |
| Context window (tokens) | 1,048,576 | 1,050,000 |
| Compared at | Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) | GPT-5.4 Pro |
| Open weights | No | No |
| Price in / out / cached input per 1M | $0.750 / $3.75 / $0.075 | $30.00 / $180.00 / – |
| Announced price change | $1.50 / $7.50 from 1 Jan 2027 | None announced |
Limits, availability and announced prices from the vendors' own pages: ai.google.dev pricing (checked 20 Oct 2026). Everything else is from the day's data.
Category by category
Category scores on the BenchLeader scale: 50 is the average evaluated model, 15 points is one standard deviation. A gap under one point is called level.
| Category | Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) | GPT-5.4 Pro | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reasoning | 68.2 | 72.5 | GPT-5.4 Pro |
| Coding | 63.5 | – | not comparable |
| Agents & tools | 50.9 | – | not comparable |
| Maths | 62.4 | – | not comparable |
| Knowledge | 68.4 | 73.6 | GPT-5.4 Pro |
| Instruction following | – | 63.8 | not comparable |
| Human preference | 69.1 | – | not comparable |
| Multimodal | 67.7 | 69.8 | GPT-5.4 Pro |
| Long context | 65.7 | – | not comparable |
| Composite | 75.3 | – | not comparable |
Where sources disagree
Across the 0 benchmarks both have, Gemini 3.8 Flash leads 0, GPT-5.4 Pro leads 0.
| Overall index | Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) | GPT-5.4 Pro | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | 64.4 | 63.3 | neck and neck |
Each publisher runs its own tasks, harnesses and effort settings, so their overall verdicts can differ; BenchLeader reconciles them on one scale. † measured at another effort setting of the same model (the publisher did not test the one compared here).
Price, speed and latency
List prices blended at three input tokens per output token. Per-task prices use the token counts on the methodology page; suite cost is what Artificial Analysis paid to run its whole Intelligence Index.
| Measure | Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) | GPT-5.4 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Blended price per 1M tokens, until 31 Dec 2026 | $1.50 | $67.50 |
| Input / output per 1M | $0.750 / $3.75 | $30.00 / $180.00 |
| Blended price per 1M from 1 Jan 2027 | $3.00 | $67.50 |
| Input / output per 1M from 1 Jan 2027 | $1.50 / $7.50 | $30.00 / $180.00 |
| Cached input per 1M | $0.075 | – |
| Price per task: chat reply | $0.0014 | $0.066 |
| Price per task: summarize a 30-page report | $0.011 | $0.468 |
| Price per task: code edit | $0.010 | $0.450 |
| Price per task: agentic coding session | $0.060 | $2.52 |
| Price per task: structured extraction | $0.0023 | $0.096 |
| Cost to run a full benchmark suite | $1.24 | – |
| Output speed | 141 tok/s | 7 tok/s |
| Time to first answer | 25.1 s | 6.1 s |
| Time to a complete answer | 28.7 s | – |
Each model is compared at its best-ranked reasoning-effort setting. Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) scores 64.4 and takes 25 s to its first answer token; Gemini 3.8 Flash (medium) scores 64.4 in 3 s, Gemini 3.8 Flash (low) scores 61.0 in 3 s. GPT-5.4 Pro scores 63.3 and takes 6 s to its first answer token; GPT-5.4 Pro (xhigh) scores 61.9 in 6 s. Higher effort means more thinking before the answer: better scores, longer waits and more tokens billed. How reasoning effort changes scores and cost.
Every benchmark
143 benchmarks, grouped by category; each name links to the board and its leaders. † measured at another effort setting of the same model, shown for reference and not counted as a win.
| Metric | Publisher | Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) | GPT-5.4 Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | BenchLeader | 64.4 | 63.3 |
| Agents & tools score | BenchLeader | 50.9 | – |
| Coding score | BenchLeader | 63.5 | – |
| Composite score | BenchLeader | 75.3 | – |
| Human preference score | BenchLeader | 69.1 | – |
| Knowledge score | BenchLeader | 68.4 | 73.6 |
| Long context score | BenchLeader | 65.7 | – |
| Maths score | BenchLeader | 62.4 | – |
| Multimodal score | BenchLeader | 67.7 | 69.8 |
| Reasoning score | BenchLeader | 68.2 | 72.5 |
| Instruction following score | BenchLeader | – | 63.8 |
| Blended price $/M | BenchLeader | $1.50 | $67.50 |
| Output speed | BenchLeader | 141 tok/s | 7 tok/s |
| Time to first answer | BenchLeader | 25.1 s | 6.1 s |
| Context window | BenchLeader | 1,048,576 tokens | 1,050,000 tokens |
| Reasoning | |||
| GPQA Diamond | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 95.4% | 94.6%† |
| Humanity's Last Exam | Scale AI / CAIS | 44.5%† | 44.3% |
| SimpleBench | SimpleBench | – | 74.1% |
| Arena Hard Prompts | Arena (LMArena) | 1517 | – |
| LiveBench 2.0 Reasoning | LiveBench | 89.3%† | – |
| LiveBench 1.0 Reasoning | LiveBench | 89.3% | – |
| GPQA Diamond (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 95.3% | – |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 47.8% | – |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Vals AI | 94.4% | – |
| ARC-AGI-1 | ARC Prize | 98.5% | 94.5%† |
| ARC-AGI-2 | ARC Prize | 89.2% | 83.3%† |
| ARC-AGI-3 | ARC Prize | 35.0% | – |
| CritPt | Artificial Analysis | 18.3% | 30.0%† |
| MysteryMechanism | Vals AI | 36.5% | – |
| Chess Puzzles | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 58.0% | 59.0%† |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 47.0% | – |
| LMCA | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 51.5%† | – |
| DTBench | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 95.7%† | – |
| Coding | |||
| SciCode | SciCode | 56.6% | – |
| WeirdML | WeirdML | 84.8% | 57.4%† |
| FrontierCode | Cognition | 41.2%† | – |
| Arena Coding | Arena (LMArena) | 1528 | – |
| Arena WebDev | Arena (LMArena) | 1585 | – |
| LiveBench 2.0 Coding | LiveBench | 82.2%† | – |
| LiveBench 1.0 Coding | LiveBench | 72.5% | – |
Show all 143 benchmarks
| Metric | Publisher | Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) | GPT-5.4 Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | |||
| LiveCodeBench | Vals AI | 89.5% | – |
| IOI | Vals AI | 56.9% | – |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Vals AI | 80.0% | – |
| Code Migration | Vals AI | 36.5% | – |
| Code Migration v1.1 | Vals AI | 38.6% | – |
| ProgramBench | Vals AI | 1.0% | – |
| SWE-bench Multimodal | Vals AI | 40.8% | – |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 | Vals AI | 18.8% | – |
| Vibe Code Bench v1.1 | Vals AI | 78.7% | – |
| SWE Atlas: Codebase QnA | Scale AI SEAL | 47.0%† | – |
| SWE Atlas: Refactoring | Scale AI SEAL | 44.8%† | – |
| SWE Atlas: Test Writing | Scale AI SEAL | 53.7%† | – |
| Surface Evolver Bench | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 76.9% | – |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 73.8% | – |
| CursorBench | Cursor | 39.6% | – |
| ALE-Bench | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 1269.7 | – |
| FrontierSWE | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 19.6% | – |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 19.7% | – |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 87.6% | – |
| Startrise Frontend | Startrise | 64.6%† | – |
| FrontierCode 1.1 (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 36.4% | – |
| Agents & tools | |||
| Terminal-Bench | Terminal-Bench | 19.1% | – |
| Remote Labor Index | Scale AI / CAIS | 5.8%† | – |
| APEX-Agents | Mercor | 64.3%† | – |
| Arena Agent | Arena (LMArena) | 3.6 | – |
| LiveBench Long Agentic | LiveBench | 30.1%† | – |
| LiveBench Browser | LiveBench | 64.0%† | – |
| LiveBench Agentic Coding | LiveBench | 54.2% | – |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Vals AI | 81.3% | – |
| HiL-Bench | Scale AI SEAL | 41.5%† | – |
| GDPval-AA v2.1 | Artificial Analysis | 46.8% | – |
| τ³-Banking (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 45.0% | – |
| ITBench SRE (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 52.5% | – |
| Analyst Agent (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 46.3% | – |
| CUA-bench | Vals AI | 4.2% | – |
| CyberBench | Vals AI | 43.8% | – |
| Finance Agent v2 | Vals AI | 61.4% | – |
| Finance Agent v2.1 | Vals AI | 65.8% | – |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1.1 | Vals AI | 12.1% | – |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1 | Vals AI | 10.0% | – |
| Legal Research Bench | Vals AI | 38.9% | – |
| SkillsBench | Vals AI | 58.0% | – |
| SREBench | Vals AI | 11.1% | – |
| Tax Agent Bench | Vals AI | 32.1% | – |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals) | Vals AI | 19.7% | – |
| Terminal-Bench Science | Vals AI | 8.6% | – |
| Time Horizon Index: KSP | Vals AI | 18.8% | – |
| Vending-Bench 2 | Andon Labs | 5093.8† | – |
| AutomationBench | Artificial Analysis | 59.9% | – |
| GDP.pdf (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 21.0% | – |
| Harvey LAB-AA v1.1 | Harvey | 0.0% | – |
| AA-Briefcase v1.1 | Artificial Analysis | 1202 | – |
| Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 10.0% | – |
| CWE-Bench (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 52.5% | – |
| DeepSec-Bench (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 14.5% | – |
| CyberGym end-to-end (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 8.4% | – |
| FACTS Search | 76.3%† | – | |
| Maths | |||
| FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 68.4% | 82.5%† |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 21.9% | 58.5%† |
| OTIS Mock AIME | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 98.9% | – |
| ProofBench | Vals AI | 48.0%† | – |
| LiveBench Mathematics | LiveBench | 91.6% | – |
| MathArena Apex | MathArena | – | 69.8%† |
| Arena Maths | Arena (LMArena) | 1526 | – |
| Knowledge | |||
| SimpleQA Verified | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 69.7% | 46.3%† |
| LiveBench 2.0 Data Analysis | LiveBench | 54.0%† | – |
| LiveBench Research | LiveBench | 79.1%† | – |
| LiveBench 1.0 Data Analysis | LiveBench | 54.0% | – |
| AA-Omniscience | Artificial Analysis | 29.6 | – |
| MMLU-Pro | Vals AI | 90.2% | – |
| LegalBench | Vals AI | 87.0% | – |
| TaxEval | Vals AI | 74.5% | – |
| PRBench Finance | Scale AI SEAL | 49.5%† | – |
| PRBench Legal | Scale AI SEAL | 48.9%† | – |
| MultiNRC | Scale AI SEAL | – | 62.3% |
| BioMysteryBench | Vals AI | 62.2% | – |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark | Vals AI | 72.2% | – |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1 | Vals AI | 72.9% | – |
| MedCode | Vals AI | 48.1% | – |
| MedScribe | Vals AI | 84.5% | – |
| Public Benefits Bench v1.1 | Vals AI | 65.3% | – |
| GDP.pdf | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 23.2% | – |
| AA-Omniscience: accuracy | Artificial Analysis | 54.6% | – |
| AA-Omniscience: non-hallucination | Artificial Analysis | 44.8% | – |
| Instruction following | |||
| LiveBench Language | LiveBench | 87.8% | – |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | LiveBench | 81.4% | – |
| MultiChallenge | Scale AI SEAL | – | 69.2% |
| TutorBench | Scale AI SEAL | – | 56.6% |
| Arena Instruction Following | Arena (LMArena) | 1490 | – |
| Human preference | |||
| Arena Text | Arena (LMArena) | 1496 | – |
| Arena Creative Writing | Arena (LMArena) | 1485 | – |
| Arena Multi-turn | Arena (LMArena) | 1504 | – |
| Arena Longer Queries | Arena (LMArena) | 1510 | – |
| Multimodal | |||
| Arena Vision | Arena (LMArena) | 1315 | – |
| LiveBench Design | LiveBench | 72.7%† | – |
| MMMU-Pro | Artificial Analysis | 85.6% | – |
| VISTA | Scale AI SEAL | – | 53.9% |
| MMMU-Pro (Vals) | Vals AI | 89.1% | – |
| MortgageTax | Vals AI | 65.3% | – |
| SAGE | Vals AI | 35.1% | – |
| AudioMC | Scale AI SEAL | 60.4% | – |
| AudioMC (text output) | Scale AI SEAL | 60.4% | – |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 38.6%† | – |
| AA-3D | Artificial Analysis | 969 | – |
| Long context | |||
| AA-LCR | Artificial Analysis | 81.3% | – |
| MLCR | Artificial Analysis | 10.6% | – |
| Composite | |||
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 157.4† | 159.6 |
| LiveBench 2.0 | LiveBench | 67.3%† | – |
| LiveBench 1.0 | LiveBench | 75.8% | – |
| AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2 | Artificial Analysis | 40.9 | – |
| Vals Index | Vals AI | 56.0 | – |
| Vals Finance Index | Vals AI | 60.5% | – |
| Vals RSI Index | Vals AI | 19.9% | – |
| Vals Science Index | Vals AI | 35.8% | – |
| Vals Router Index | Vals AI | 56.0%† | – |
| AA Cyber Index | Artificial Analysis | 25.1 | – |
| Safety & honesty | |||
| FORTRESS | Scale AI SEAL | – | 14.8% |
| MASK | Scale AI SEAL | – | 91.7% |
Data as of 2026-10-24. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.
What changed
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: list price moves to $1.50 / $7.50 per 1M input / output tokens (announced).
- Gemini 3.8 Flash (high): 8 new results (Code Migration v1.1, Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1, Finance Agent v2.1…).
- Gemini 3.8 Flash (high): 1 score revision.
- GPT-5.4 Pro: 1 score revision.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash (high): 3 score revisions.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash (high): BenchLeader Index 63.7 → 64.5.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash (high): 1 new result (AudioMC (text output)).
- Gemini 3.8 Flash (high): 1 new result (SREBench); 2 score revisions.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash (high): 2 score revisions.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash (high): 1 new result (Analyst Agent (AA)); 1 score revision.
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Gemini 3.8 Flash vs GPT-5.4 Pro: questions
- Is Gemini 3.8 Flash better than GPT-5.4 Pro?
- Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) and GPT-5.4 Pro are neck and neck on quality (64.4 vs 63.3, within the ±5.2 margin). The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; the two are within the margin of error as of 2026-10-24, so check the category scores for your use.
- Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.8 Flash or GPT-5.4 Pro, and will that change?
- Gemini 3.8 Flash is cheaper today: $1.50 against $67.50 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token. Yes, that changes: Gemini 3.8 Flash's list price changes on 1 Jan 2027, and from then Gemini 3.8 Flash is cheaper ($3.00 vs $67.50 blended).
- Which is better for long documents?
- Both take about 1.1M tokens: Gemini 3.8 Flash 1,048,576, GPT-5.4 Pro 1,050,000.
- Which has lower latency?
- GPT-5.4 Pro answers first: 6.1 s against 25.1 s to the first answer token, as Artificial Analysis measures it. Reasoning effort drives most of this: a higher setting thinks longer before it answers.
- Which is faster, Gemini 3.8 Flash or GPT-5.4 Pro?
- Gemini 3.8 Flash streams faster: 141 against 7 output tokens per second.
- When was Gemini 3.8 Flash released?
- Gemini 3.8 Flash was released on 2 Sept 2026.