picksbymodel Get API access →

head-to-head

Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-04.

	Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)
Vendor	google	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	93.4	62.0
Input Price	$0.75/M	$0.15/M
Output Price	$3.75/M	$1.25/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,048,576
Max Output	65,536	65,536
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	96.8	61.8
ai_index_agentic	82.5	44.8
ai_index_coding	100.0	81.4

Who wins by task?

Task	Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)
SQL Generation	173	161
Code Review	169	157
Code Refactoring	166	156
Bug Fixing	183	166
Unit Test Generation	156	146
Code Documentation	144	140
Regex Writing	137	131
CI/CD Pipelines	146	137
Frontend Component Design	148	139
Data Analysis	173	157
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	154	149
ETL Scripting	156	147
JSON Extraction	148	145
Bulk Data Labeling	134	134
OCR / Document Parsing	147	143
Table Extraction from PDFs	147	143
Long-Document Summarization	162	153
Short-Form Summarization	132	129
Blog Post Writing	142	135

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

Related comparisons

Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor vs Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor vs Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 vs Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 vs Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch) Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Z.ai: GLM Flash Latest Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash