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Gemini 3.8 FlashvsHy4 preview

Gemini 3.8 Flash leads 2 of 4 shared benchmarks. Hy4 preview is 1.3x cheaper per token. Gemini 3.8 Flash has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
2 – 1
Gemini 3.8 Flash leads · 1 tied
Cheaper per token
Hy4 preview
1.3x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Gemini 3.8 Flash
1.0M tokens
Providers
2 providers
Google · Tencent Hunyuan
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Google · released 2026-09-02
textvisionaudio
Context
1.0M
Max out
66K
Input /1M
$0.75 ↗
Output /1M
$3.75 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.075
Scores
43 · 10 core
Hy4 preview
Tencent Hunyuan · released 2026-08-28
text
Context
1M
Max out
64K
Input /1M
$0.834 ↗
Output /1M
$2.5 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.042
Scores
18 · 7 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashHy4 previewΔEdge
Reported by both · 4
GPQA Diamond95.3% ↗92.3% ↗+3 ptGemini 3.8 Flash
LMArena Agent (LMArena)0.0297 ↗0.0395 ↗0Tie
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1582.7 ↗1633.2 ↗-50.5Hy4 preview
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI)19.2% ↗8.1% ↗+11.1 ptGemini 3.8 Flash
Only Gemini 3.8 Flash reports · 33
LMArena Elo1494.8 ↗not reported——
APEX-Agents (Mercor)64.3% ↗not reported——
CharXiv Reasoning (no tools)86.2% ↗not reported——
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)61% ↗epoch runnot reported——
DeepSWE v1.173.7% ↗not reported——
DeepSWE v1.1 (Datacurve)73.8% ↗not reported——
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)22% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)68.4% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs)19.6% ↗not reported——
Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run)31.7% ↗epoch runnot reported——
GDPVal-AA v21545 ↗not reported——
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark10% ↗not reported——
HLE-Verified54.9% ↗not reported——
LABBench286.2% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)54.2% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)72.5% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)54% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)81.4% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)87.8% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)91.6% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)89.3% ↗not reported——
LMArena Vision (LMArena)1290.3 ↗not reported——
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)47% ↗epoch runnot reported——
OSWorld-2.059% ↗not reported——
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)98.9% ↗epoch runnot reported——
SAGE (Vals AI)35.1% ↗not reported——
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)82.4% ↗not reported——
SimpleQA Verified69.7% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Terminal-bench 2.189.4% ↗not reported——
Terminal-bench 4.019.1% ↗not reported——
Vals Finance Agent v261.4% ↗not reported——
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)5093.79 ↗not reported——
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)84.8% ↗not reported——
Only Hy4 preview reports · 14
Agents' Last Exam (ALE-CLI)not reported22.8% ↗——
CyberGymnot reported78.4% ↗——
DeepSWEnot reported64.3% ↗——
HLE (no tools, text-only)not reported43.4% ↗——
HLE (with tools, text-only)not reported55.4% ↗——
MathArena Apex 2025not reported74.2% ↗——
MCP-Atlas (public)not reported83.7% ↗——
NL2Repo-Benchnot reported58.9% ↗——
OfficeQA Pronot reported66.2% ↗——
SWE-bench Multilingualnot reported82.9% ↗——
SWE-bench Pronot reported65.7% ↗——
Terminal-Bench 2.1not reported85.4% ↗——
Toolathlon-Verifiednot reported74.1% ↗——
WideSearchnot reported83.9% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Gemini 3.8 Flash minus Hy4 preview in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecGemini 3.8 FlashHy4 previewEdge
Context window1.0M tokens1M tokensGemini 3.8 Flash
Max output66K tokens64K tokensGemini 3.8 Flash
Input price / 1M$0.75 ↗$0.834 ↗Gemini 3.8 Flash
Output price / 1M$3.75 ↗$2.5 ↗Hy4 preview
Cached input / 1M$0.075 ↗$0.042 ↗Hy4 preview
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$4.5$3.34Hy4 preview
Modalitiestext · vision · audiotextGemini 3.8 Flash
Released2026-09-022026-08-28—
Cited benchmark scores4318—
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