Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) vs Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)

Which is better for the money: Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) by Google or Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) by NVIDIA? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-27.

Trade-off

GoogleGemini 3.8 Flash (High)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 40.90
Total cost: $3770

NVIDIANemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 22.90
Total cost: $596

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) scores 18.0 points higher (40.9 vs 22.9) but costs 6.3× as much to run the benchmark ($3770 vs $596; flagship vs premium cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) when you need intelligence above 22.9, and Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) when 22.9 is enough.

Metric	Gemini 3.8 Flash (High)	Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	40.9	22.9	−44.0% Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B… is 44.0% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$3,769.96	$596.33	−84.2% Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B… is 84.2% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	31.95s	15.29s	−52.1% Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B… is 52.1% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.75 / $3.75	$0.60 / $2.70
Input modalities	Text, Image, Speech, Video	Text

Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) vs Gemini 3.8 Flash (High): 44.0% less intelligence, 84.2% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 52.1% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 55.10 for $3117.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (High) scores 50.20 for $521.

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