Is Gemini 3.8 Flash a good deal?
Whether anything in this catalogue beats Gemini 3.8 Flash on both quality and price, and what you give up if it does. A computation on the current catalogue, not an opinion.
6 undominated of 137 · Sep 19, 2026
As of Sep 19, 2026, Gemini 3.8 Flash is on the value frontier for Balanced on LMArena. Nothing in this catalogue is both higher-scoring and cheaper with a covering envelope. 6 of 137 rated, priced standard models are undominated.
Nothing in this catalogue is both better and cheaper, with a capability envelope that covers Gemini 3.8 Flash.
Gemini 3.8 Flash takes text, image, video, file, audio, returns up to 65,536 tokens from a 1,048,576-token context, and is listed by 6 sellers.
Compared against 137 rated, priced models on this lens, nothing dominates it: no model is at least as good on both quality and price and better on one. Gemini 3.8 Flash scores 1494.7 at $1.50 per million tokens for this mix.
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