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Gemini 3.8 FlashvsMAI-Thinking-1
Gemini 3.8 Flash leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. 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 – 0
Gemini 3.8 Flash leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Gemini 3.8 Flash
1.0M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · —
Google · Microsoft
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Google · released 2026-09-02
textvisionaudio
MAI-Thinking-1
Microsoft · released 2026-08-12
text
- Context
- 256K
- Max out
- 64K
- Input /1M
- —
- Output /1M
- —
- Cached /1M
- —
- Scores
- 15 · 7 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
2 shared · 13 only Gemini 3.8 Flash · 13 only MAI-Thinking-1| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | MAI-Thinking-1 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 2 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 95.3% ↗ | 84.2% ↗ | +11.1 pt | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| SimpleQA Verified | 69.7% ↗epoch | 31% ↗ | +38.7 pt | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Only Gemini 3.8 Flash reports · 13 | ||||
| CharXiv Reasoning (no tools) | 86.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | 73.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 22% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 68.4% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| GDPVal-AA v2 | 1545 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark | 10% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| HLE-Verified | 54.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LABBench2 | 86.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld-2.0 | 59% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 98.9% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-bench 2.1 | 89.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-bench 4.0 | 19.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Vals Finance Agent v2 | 61.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only MAI-Thinking-1 reports · 13 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | not reported | 73.5% ↗ | — | — |
| MMLU-Pro | not reported | 85% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | not reported | 97% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME 2026 | not reported | 94.5% ↗ | — | — |
| AdvancedIF | not reported | 85% ↗ | — | — |
| BFCL v3 | not reported | 72% ↗ | — | — |
| GraphWalks (<=128K) | not reported | 90% ↗ | — | — |
| HMMT February 2026 | not reported | 84.9% ↗ | — | — |
| IFBench | not reported | 69% ↗ | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | not reported | 87.7% ↗ | — | — |
| MultiChallenge | not reported | 53% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | not reported | 52.8% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | not reported | 46% ↗ | — | — |
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 MAI-Thinking-1 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
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Gemini 3.8 Flash | MAI-Thinking-1 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1.0M tokens | 256K tokens | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Max output | 66K tokens | 64K tokens | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Input price / 1M | $0.75 ↗ | — | — |
| Output price / 1M | $3.75 ↗ | — | — |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.075 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $4.5 | — | — |
| Modalities | text · vision · audio | text | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Released | 2026-09-02 | 2026-08-12 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 16 | 15 | — |
Reliability
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