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.
10 undominated of 142 · Nov 5, 2026
As of Nov 5, 2026, Gemini 3.8 Flash is on the value frontier for Balanced on LMArena. Nothing in this catalogue scores at least as high for less, or higher for the same price. 10 of 142 rated, priced standard models are undominated.
Nothing in this catalogue scores at least as high as Gemini 3.8 Flash for less, or higher for the same price.
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 7 sellers.
Compared against 142 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 1498.5 at $3.00 per million tokens for this mix.
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