Gemini 3.8 Flash · Comparison

Gemini 3.8 Flash vs GPT-5.6 Sol: same index, 85% cheaper

Identical intelligence index score at an order-of-magnitude price difference. Gemini 3.8 Flash wins on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (89.4% vs 88.8%), Vals Finance Agent v2 (61.4% vs 53.8%) and Harvey Legal Agent (10.0% vs 2.5%). GPT-5.6 Sol wins GDPval-AA v2 by 165 Elo and Terminal-Bench 4.0 by 18.2 points.

Dated comparison: 3 September 2026

MetricGemini 3.8 FlashGPT-5.6 Sol
AA Intelligence Index5959
Terminal-Bench 2.189.4%88.8%
Terminal-Bench 4.019.1%37.3%
GDPval-AA v21545 Elo1710 Elo
Vals Finance Agent v261.4%53.8%
Harvey Legal Agent10.0%2.5%
HLE-Verified54.9%54.5%
GDP.PDF35.0%40.0%
Output speed~305 tok/sLower
Standard input / 1M$0.75~$5
Standard output / 1M$3.75~$30
WeightsClosedClosed

How to choose

If the workload is finance, legal, agentic coding or any task where output speed and price dominate, Gemini 3.8 Flash is the like-for-like pick on the same index score. If the workload is open-ended professional work (GDPval-AA v2) or long-horizon agents (Terminal-Bench 4.0), GPT-5.6 Sol wins on those benchmarks despite the same index.

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These figures are transcribed from the 3 September 2026 research snapshot. GPT-5.6 Sol's per-token prices are approximate ranges reported by third-party aggregators. The AA Intelligence Index is a composite, not a per-benchmark score.

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