Which is better, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Gemini 3.8 Flash?

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Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Gemini 3.8 Flash

30 SHARED BENCHMARKS

Across 30 shared benchmarks, Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on 2 and Gemini 3.8 Flash on 28. The widest gap is OSWorld 2.0, where Gemini 3.8 Flash scores 59 against 33.8.

GOOGLEVSGOOGLE30 SHARED2–28 HEAD-TO-HEAD

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMARGINGemini 3.8 Flash

AA Agentic Index40.550

AA Intelligence5259

AA-LCR7982

AA-Omniscience22.129.6

arena_elo14811494

Artificial Analysis Coding Index69.276.3

charxiv_rq85.286.2

critpt10.618.3

DeepSWE 1.14973.7

GDP (Surge AI)2235

gdpval45.752.3

GDPval-AA v214211545

GPQA Diamond92.895.3

HLE40.847.8

HLE-Verified51.254.9

livebench_agentic_coding43.454.2

livebench_coding77.972.5

livebench_data_analysis6354

livebench_instruction_following75.481.4

livebench_language83.987.8

livebench_math86.491.6

livebench_reasoning85.289.3

LVBench84.287.1

MMMU-Pro83.285.6

OmniScience Accuracy5054.6

OmniScience Non-Hallucination44.448.1

OSWorld 2.033.859

scicode52.754.4

TauBench V3 - Banking29.945.8

Terminal-Bench 2.17889.4

Best tracked score per model per benchmark (default configuration; source-attributed). ↓ marks lower-is-better metrics. Open either model for its full surface, provenance and pricing.