Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Llama 4 Maverick
Updated October 21, 2026. 66 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
vs boards won of 66 shared
Decision reading
Pick Gemini 3.8 Flash for coding: it scores 70.5 on the Vibe Coding Index against 18.1 for Llama 4 Maverick.
Pick Llama 4 Maverick when output tokens cost 6.3x less, or when a solved task costs $1.491 against $2.74.
Model AGemini 3.8 FlashGoogle70.5/1002 independent benchmarks$2.74 per solved taskModel BLlama 4 MaverickMeta Llama18.1/1002 independent benchmarks$1.491 per solved task
- Shared results
- 66
- Gemini 3.8 Flash only
- 60
- Llama 4 Maverick only
- 18
- Like-for-like categories
- 8 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, four public coding benchmarks
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Gemini 3.8 Flash scores 70.5 against 18.1.
2 benchmarks behind each score
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Gemini 3.8 Flash leads, 40.9 against 9.3.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Gemini 3.8 Flash leads, 40.2 against 0.6.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Gemini 3.8 Flash leads, 94.4% against 69.4%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
No call
Only Llama 4 Maverick has a AIME result, 25.2%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Gemini 3.8 Flash leads, 90.2% against 79.4%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Gemini 3.8 Flash leads, 1301 against 871.
Same board, both measured
General
Vals Index
No call
Only Gemini 3.8 Flash has a Vals Index result, 56.0%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Gemini 3.8 Flash takes 1.05M tokens against 524K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Llama 4 Maverick
Gemini 3.8 Flash $0.0029, Llama 4 Maverick $0.0005 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
Llama 4 Maverick
Gemini 3.8 Flash $2.74, Llama 4 Maverick $1.491.
Published attempt cost and pass rate
At a glance
- Coding index
- Gemini 3.8 Flash 70.5 from 2 benchmarks, Llama 4 Maverick 18.1 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Web design, 52.5 points apart on average over 6 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- ARC-AGI: Gemini 3.8 Flash 98.5% against Llama 4 Maverick 4.4%, 94.1 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Gemini 3.8 Flash $4.125 against Llama 4 Maverick $0.6525 per million output tokens, 6.3x apart.
- Context window
- Gemini 3.8 Flash takes 1.05M tokens, Llama 4 Maverick 524K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Bars | Llama 4 Maverick | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 7 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 2 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 11 | 0 | ||
| Math | 2 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 9 | 0 | ||
| Web design | 6 | 0 | ||
| General | 27 | 1 | ||
| All shared boards | 65 | 1 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index70
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Llama 4 Maverick | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | Not measured | 15.6% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 21.0% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LiveBench coding | 82.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1585 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| AA Coding Index | 76.3 | 16.3 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 89.5% | 47.3% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 80.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 19.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 78.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 36.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 1.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 56.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 81.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | 40.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | 18.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | 58.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 43.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 39.7% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| SciCode | 56.6% | 31.7% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 6.8% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| FrontierCode | 41.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| FrontierSWE | 19.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| WeirdML | 84.8% | 24.5% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| ALE-Bench | 1269.7 | 173.0 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1508 | 1301 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1507 | 1299 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1577 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1616 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1593 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Llama 4 Maverick | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 40.9 | 9.3 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 157.4 | 132.2 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Llama 4 Maverick | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 40.2 | 0.6 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1238 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1244 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1236 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1078 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 1273 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1178 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: spreadsheets | 1052 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LiveBench research | 79.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LiveBench browser | 64.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 30.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | 11.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 61.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 32.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 38.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | 12.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 72.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | 62.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 8.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Vals Science Index | 35.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Time Horizon Index (Vals AI) | 18.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| CUA-bench (Vals AI) | 4.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 17.8% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| APEX-Agents | 64.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Remote Labor Index | 5.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $5,094 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index110
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Llama 4 Maverick | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 94.4% | 69.4% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LiveBench reasoning | 89.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | 36.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 89.1% | 71.7% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 95.3% | 67.1% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 47.8% | 4.9% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 95.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| ARC-AGI | 98.5% | 4.4% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 89.2% | 0.0% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| SimpleBench | Not measured | 27.7% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Chess puzzles | 58.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 47.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1509 | 1281 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1526 | 1259 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1504 | 1295 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1345 | 1134 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1351 | 1164 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Llama 4 Maverick | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 25.2% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 85.2% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | Not measured | 92.4% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| AA Math Index | Not measured | 19.3 | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 19.3% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 98.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 68.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 22.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| ProofBench | 48.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1532 | 1299 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1519 | 1295 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index90
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Llama 4 Maverick | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 90.2% | 79.4% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 87.0% | 77.8% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 49.7% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 74.5% | 66.6% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 65.3% | 58.5% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | Not measured | 43.3% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 48.1% | 36.5% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 80.9% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 69.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| GeoBench | Not measured | 52.0% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1523 | 1288 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1508 | 1275 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1497 | 1286 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1479 | 1260 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Llama 4 Maverick | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1301 | 871 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1318 | 899 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1305 | 838 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1269 | 882 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1295 | 901 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1304 | 880 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1295 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1264 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LiveBench design | 72.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index271
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Llama 4 Maverick | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | 56.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LiveBench data analysis | 54.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 65.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 35.1% | 35.7% | Llama 4 Maverick |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 84.5% | 54.2% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| IFBench | Not measured | 43.0% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 84.0% | 50.0% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| DTBench | 95.7% | 61.9% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMCA | 52.9% | 15.9% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Fiction.LiveBench | Not measured | 46.2% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | Not measured | 62.0% | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 76.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| Furniture assembly | 31.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.8 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text | 1499 | 1287 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1492 | 1267 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1488 | 1266 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Vision | 1315 | 1142 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: English | 1498 | 1303 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1491 | 1269 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1553 | 1277 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: German | 1501 | 1291 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1507 | 1206 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1464 | 1203 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: French | 1496 | 1259 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1487 | 1293 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1514 | 1286 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1497 | 1275 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1503 | 1289 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1507 | 1280 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1494 | 1277 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1480 | 1250 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1318 | 1150 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1416 | 1141 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1333 | 1143 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1321 | 1100 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1299 | 1099 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Llama 4 Maverick | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Gemini 3.8 Flash$0.0029Fits in one request
Llama 4 Maverick$0.0005Fits in one request
Llama 4 Maverick costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Gemini 3.8 Flash$0.054Fits in one request
Llama 4 Maverick$0.011Fits in one request
Llama 4 Maverick costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Gemini 3.8 Flash$0.206Fits in one request
Llama 4 Maverick$0.044Fits in one request
Llama 4 Maverick costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Google Gemini 3.8 Flash | Meta Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta Llama | |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | September 2, 2026 | April 5, 2025 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 524K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.825 | $0.1875 |
| Output $/Mtok | $4.125 | $0.6525 |
| Coding index | 70.5 | 18.1 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 2 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | $2.74 | $1.491 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Gemini 3.8 Flash better than Llama 4 Maverick for coding?
Pick Gemini 3.8 Flash for coding: it scores 70.5 on the Vibe Coding Index against 18.1 for Llama 4 Maverick. Pick Llama 4 Maverick when output tokens cost 6.3x less, or when a solved task costs $1.491 against $2.74.
Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.8 Flash or Llama 4 Maverick?
Gemini 3.8 Flash costs $0.825 per million input tokens and $4.125 per million output tokens; Llama 4 Maverick costs $0.1875 and $0.6525. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Gemini 3.8 Flash costs $2.74 and Llama 4 Maverick $1.491.
Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 3.8 Flash or Llama 4 Maverick?
Gemini 3.8 Flash, with 1.05M tokens against 524K.
How many benchmarks is the Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Llama 4 Maverick comparison based on?
66 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Gemini 3.8 Flash's coding index rests on 2 independent benchmarks and Llama 4 Maverick's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.