Gemini 3.8 Flash (Medium) vs GPT-5 mini (Minimal)

Gemini 3.8 Flash (Medium) vs GPT-5 mini (Minimal). A reliable intelligence-versus-cost verdict requires both models' intelligence scores and benchmark-run costs. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

GoogleGemini 3.8 Flash (Medium)Off the frontier
Intelligence
39.80
Total cost
$1100
OpenAIGPT-5 mini (Minimal)Not ranked · benchmark data missing
Intelligence
9.90
Total cost
-
Verdict

Comparison incomplete

A reliable intelligence-versus-cost verdict requires both models' intelligence scores and benchmark-run costs. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

MetricGemini 3.8 Flash (Medium)GPT-5 mini (Minimal)Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)39.89.9−75.1% GPT-5 mini (Minimal) is 75.1% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)$1,100.06Not reported— not comparable
End-to-end time (lower is better)Not reported5.15s— not comparable
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)$0.75 / $3.75$0.25 / $2.00
Input modalitiesText, Image, Speech, VideoText, Image
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