Home / Alternatives / Gemini 3.8 Flash G Alternatives to Gemini 3.8 Flash For summarising documents cheaply, Gemini 3.8 Flash scores 71 and costs $4.13 per 1,000 summaries. Here’s what beats it on price, on quality, or on privacy.
Overall 71 $1.50 / 1M
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Alternatives to Claude Fable 5.1 Claude Haiku 5.5 Claude Opus 5 Claude Opus 5.5 Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5.5 DeepSeek V4 Pro Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Gemini 3.8 Flash Gemini 4 Argon Gemma 4 31B IT GLM-5.3 GLM-5.3-Flash GPT-5.6 Sol GPT-5.6 Terra GPT-6 Astra GPT-6 Luna GPT-6 Sol GPT-6.1 Sol Grok 4.7 Kimi K3 MiniMax-M3 Mistral Large 4 Mistral Medium 3.5 Muse Spark 1.3 Muse Wonder Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Nova 2 Lite Qwen3.6 27B Qwen3.8 Max 94% similar M Muse Spark 1.3 Meta Overall 68−3
Blended / 1M $2.00+33%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Muse Spark 1.3 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash Overall −3 Coding +9 Writing −10 Support −7 Value −4 Context 1M Back
88% similar OA GPT-6.1 Sol OpenAI Overall 74+3
Blended / 1M $4.00+167%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page GPT-6.1 Sol vs Gemini 3.8 Flash Overall +3 Coding +12 Writing −22 Support −20 Value −2 Context 1.1M Back
88% similar Qw Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba (Qwen) Overall 66−5
Blended / 1M $3.00+100%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Qwen3.8 Max vs Gemini 3.8 Flash Overall −5 Coding +9 Writing −5 Support −6 Value −8 Context 1M Back
85% similar Open weights Z GLM-5.3 Z.ai Overall 61−10
Blended / 1M $2.15+43%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page GLM-5.3 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash Overall −10 Coding +2 Writing −10 Support −11 Value −12 Context 1M Back
83% similar An Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic Overall 79+8
Blended / 1M $4.00+167%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash Overall +8 Coding +21 Writing −6 Support −9 Value +3 Context 1M Back
83% similar OA GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI Overall 68−3
Blended / 1M $8.00+433%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page GPT-5.6 Sol vs Gemini 3.8 Flash Overall −3 Coding +1 Writing −13 Support −12 Value −12 Context 1.1M Back
82% similar Open weights Ki Kimi K3 Moonshot AI Overall 65−6
Blended / 1M $6.00+300%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Kimi K3 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash Overall −6 Coding +8 Writing −11 Support −5 Value −14 Context 1M Back
81% similar OA GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI Overall 60−11
Blended / 1M $4.50+200%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page GPT-5.6 Terra vs Gemini 3.8 Flash Overall −11 Coding −12 Writing −27 Support −21 Value −16 Context 1.1M Back
78% similar Open weights DS DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek Overall 53−18
Blended / 1M $1.98+32%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Gemini 3.8 Flash Overall −18 Coding −10 Writing −19 Support −19 Value −19 Context 1M Back
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