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GPT-6 AstravsGemini 3.8 Flash

GPT-6 Astra leads 24 of 27 shared benchmarks. Gemini 3.8 Flash is 13.3x cheaper per token. GPT-6 Astra has the larger context window (1.1M tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
24 – 3
GPT-6 Astra leads
Cheaper per token
Gemini 3.8 Flash
13.3x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GPT-6 Astra
1.1M tokens
Providers
2 providers
OpenAI · Google
GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI · released 2026-09-03
textvision
Context
1.1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$10 ↗
Output /1M
$50 ↗
Cached /1M
$1
Scores
39 · 9 core
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Google · released 2026-09-02
textvisionaudio
Context
1.0M
Max out
66K
Input /1M
$0.75 ↗
Output /1M
$3.75 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.075
Scores
43 · 10 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkGPT-6 AstraGemini 3.8 FlashΔEdge
Reported by both · 27
GPQA Diamond96% ↗95.3% ↗+0.7 ptGPT-6 Astra
LMArena Elo1477.1 ↗1494.8 ↗-17.7Gemini 3.8 Flash
APEX-Agents (Mercor)64.7% ↗64.3% ↗+0.4 ptGPT-6 Astra
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)72% ↗epoch run61% ↗epoch run+11 ptGPT-6 Astra
DeepSWE v1.1 (Datacurve)74.1% ↗73.8% ↗+0.3 ptGPT-6 Astra
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)97.6% ↗epoch run22% ↗epoch run+75.6 ptGPT-6 Astra
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)93.7% ↗epoch run68.4% ↗epoch run+25.3 ptGPT-6 Astra
FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs)65.5% ↗19.6% ↗+45.9 ptGPT-6 Astra
Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run)80% ↗epoch run31.7% ↗epoch run+48.3 ptGPT-6 Astra
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)57.3% ↗54.2% ↗+3.1 ptGPT-6 Astra
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)80.4% ↗72.5% ↗+7.9 ptGPT-6 Astra
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)83% ↗54% ↗+29 ptGPT-6 Astra
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)75.6% ↗81.4% ↗-5.8 ptGemini 3.8 Flash
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)89.4% ↗87.8% ↗+1.6 ptGPT-6 Astra
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)96.8% ↗91.6% ↗+5.2 ptGPT-6 Astra
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)92.7% ↗89.3% ↗+3.4 ptGPT-6 Astra
LMArena Agent (LMArena)0.1227 ↗0.0297 ↗+0.1GPT-6 Astra
LMArena Vision (LMArena)1284.3 ↗1290.3 ↗-6Gemini 3.8 Flash
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1787.7 ↗1582.7 ↗+205GPT-6 Astra
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)84% ↗epoch run47% ↗epoch run+37 ptGPT-6 Astra
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)100% ↗epoch run98.9% ↗epoch run+1.1 ptGPT-6 Astra
SAGE (Vals AI)46.4% ↗35.1% ↗+11.3 ptGPT-6 Astra
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)86.5% ↗82.4% ↗+4.1 ptGPT-6 Astra
SimpleQA Verified75.6% ↗epoch run69.7% ↗epoch run+5.9 ptGPT-6 Astra
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI)59.6% ↗19.2% ↗+40.4 ptGPT-6 Astra
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)15514.7 ↗5093.79 ↗+10420.9GPT-6 Astra
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)93.6% ↗84.8% ↗+8.8 ptGPT-6 Astra
Only GPT-6 Astra reports · 6
AutomationBench 1.0.641.4% ↗not reported——
BALROG (BALROG)68.3% ↗not reported——
EBR-bench (Epoch AI run)76.2% ↗epoch runnot reported——
GSO Opt@1 (GSO)77.5% ↗not reported——
MirrorCode (Epoch AI run)46.7% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Terminal-Bench Science 0.164.6% ↗not reported——
Only Gemini 3.8 Flash reports · 10
CharXiv Reasoning (no tools)not reported86.2% ↗——
DeepSWE v1.1not reported73.7% ↗——
GDPVal-AA v2not reported1545 ↗——
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmarknot reported10% ↗——
HLE-Verifiednot reported54.9% ↗——
LABBench2not reported86.2% ↗——
OSWorld-2.0not reported59% ↗——
Terminal-bench 2.1not reported89.4% ↗——
Terminal-bench 4.0not reported19.1% ↗——
Vals Finance Agent v2not reported61.4% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is GPT-6 Astra minus Gemini 3.8 Flash in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecGPT-6 AstraGemini 3.8 FlashEdge
Context window1.1M tokens1.0M tokensGPT-6 Astra
Max output128K tokens66K tokensGPT-6 Astra
Input price / 1M$10 ↗$0.75 ↗Gemini 3.8 Flash
Output price / 1M$50 ↗$3.75 ↗Gemini 3.8 Flash
Cached input / 1M$1 ↗$0.075 ↗Gemini 3.8 Flash
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$60$4.5Gemini 3.8 Flash
Modalitiestext · visiontext · vision · audioGemini 3.8 Flash
Released2026-09-032026-09-02—
Cited benchmark scores3943—
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