BenchLeader

Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Grok 4

Verdict
  • Gemini 3.8 Flash leads on quality: 61.1 vs 59.8.
  • Gemini 3.8 Flash is stronger in agents & tools, composite, knowledge, multimodal.
  • Grok 4 is stronger in long context, maths, coding, human preference, instruction following, reasoning.
  • They cost about the same ($1.50 per 1M blended).
MetricGemini 3.8 FlashGrok 4
BenchLeader Index61.159.8
Agents & tools score57.253.4
Composite score74.1
Knowledge score68.156.0
Long context score64.977.7
Maths score57.058.0
Multimodal score69.954.5
Coding score61.2
Human preference score59.8
Instruction following score67.7
Reasoning score58.3
Blended price $/M$1.50$1.56
Output speed277 tok/s
Time to first answer12.8 s
Context window1.0M256k
GPQA Diamond87.0%
OTIS Mock AIME84.0%
Terminal-Bench27.2%
SimpleBench60.5%
Fiction.LiveBench 120k96.9%
Cybench43.0%
WeirdML45.7%
APEX-Agents15.2%
ProofBench48.0%
Epoch Capabilities Index146.4
LMArena Text1411
LMArena Hard Prompts1420
LMArena Coding1435
LMArena Vision1210
AA Intelligence Index41.2
AA-LCR81.3%
MMMU-Pro85.6%
AA-Omniscience29.6
GPQA Diamond (AA)95.3%
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)47.8%
SciCode (AA)56.6%
AIME (Vals)90.6%
LiveCodeBench83.3%
MMLU-Pro85.3%
LegalBench83.2%
CorpFin66.0%
TaxEval65.1%
MedQA92.5%
MGSM90.9%
SWE-bench (Vals)57.8%
GPQA Diamond (Vals)88.1%
IMO 202521.4%
MathArena Apex2.1%
PRBench Finance49.5%
PRBench Legal48.9%
HiL-Bench41.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%
IFEval (HELM)94.9%
Omni-MATH (HELM)60.3%
WildBench (HELM)79.7%
MMLU-Pro (HELM)85.1%
GPQA Diamond (HELM)72.6%
HELM Capabilities mean78.5%
Aider Polyglot79.6%
ARC-AGI-179.6%
ARC-AGI-229.4%
BFCL Overall63.0%

Data as of 2026-09-13. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.

Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Grok 4: questions

Is Gemini 3.8 Flash better than Grok 4?
Gemini 3.8 Flash leads on quality: 61.1 vs 59.8. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Gemini 3.8 Flash is ahead overall as of 2026-09-13, but check the category scores for your use.
Is Gemini 3.8 Flash better than Grok 4 for agentic tasks?
Gemini 3.8 Flash scores higher in agentic tasks (57 vs 53 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.8 Flash or Grok 4?
Gemini 3.8 Flash is cheaper: $1.50 against $1.56 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
Which has the larger context window?
Gemini 3.8 Flash accepts more context: 1.0M against 256k tokens.