Model comparison

Gemini 3.8 Flash vs NVILA 8B

Gemini 3.8 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#11); NVILA 8B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.8 Flash Google

61.8

Rank #11 Confirmed

NVILA 8B NVIDIA

37.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Gemini 3.8 Flash leads 40.7 to 35.0.
  • NVILA 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.8 Flash and NVILA 8B specifications
Gemini 3.8 FlashNVILA 8B
ProviderGoogleNVIDIA
Noometry Index61.837.3
Released2026-09-022024-12-10
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.75—
Output $ / M tokens$3.75—
Results tracked501

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 59.2 (#15), NVILA 8B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashNVILA 8B
DeepSWE73.8%—
FrontierCode41.2%—
CursorBench39.6%—
LMArena WebDev1584—
FrontierSWE19.6%—
SciCode56.6%—
WeirdML84.8%—
LMArena Coding1510—
ALE-Bench1,270—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 41.8 (#21), NVILA 8B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashNVILA 8B
APEX-Agents64.3%—
Remote Labor Index5.8%—
GDP.pdf23.4%—
Vending-Bench 25,094—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 76.9 (#5), NVILA 8B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashNVILA 8B
ARC-AGI-289.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)97.4%—
ARC-AGI-198.5%—
CritPt18.3%—
Chess Puzzles61%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1508—
Mystery Game Puzzles47%—
DTBench95.7%—
LMCA52.9%—
Surface Evolver Bench76.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.71—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 65.3 (#28), NVILA 8B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashNVILA 8B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)68.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%—
ProofBench48%—
LMArena Math1528—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 74.8 (#2), NVILA 8B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashNVILA 8B
GPQA Diamond95.4%—
Humanity's Last Exam44.5%—
SimpleQA Verified69.7%—
LMArena Expert1524—

Multimodal Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 40.7 (#45), NVILA 8B: 35.0

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashNVILA 8B
LMArena Vision1314—
Video-MME—64.2%
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly31.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 58.0 (#5), NVILA 8B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashNVILA 8B
LMArena Non-English1491—
LMArena Chinese1554—
LMArena French1498—
LMArena German1493—
LMArena Japanese1502—
LMArena Korean1459—
LMArena Russian1515—
LMArena Spanish1485—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 78.0 (#13), NVILA 8B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashNVILA 8B
LMArena Instruction Following1490—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 46.3 (#24), NVILA 8B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashNVILA 8B
LMArena Longer Query1508—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 72.2 (#15), NVILA 8B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashNVILA 8B
LMArena Text1499—
LMArena Creative Writing1492—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1748—
LMArena Multi-Turn1501—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.8 Flash better than NVILA 8B?

Gemini 3.8 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#11); NVILA 8B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.8 Flash and NVILA 8B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.8 Flash has 50 scored results on Noometry and NVILA 8B has 1.

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