Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Glimpse

Where it leads

• Accepts audio input
• A cached-input rate, $0.075 per 1M tokens
• Batch pricing, $0.375 input and $1.875 output per 1M tokens

Best for

• High-volume agentic and coding workloads where per-token cost dominates the decision
• Multimodal pipelines that need audio, video and PDF input in one model

Watch out for

• The listed price is promotional and ends 31 December 2026; on 1 January 2027 input and output both double, to $1.50 and $7.50, and cached input goes from $0.075 to $0.15
• Output pricing is billed inclusive of thinking tokens, so reasoning-heavy prompts cost more than the output length suggests
• Google’s published comparisons are against its own previous Flash release and were not independently reproduced here

Where it leads

• Lower input and output prices, $0.60 and $3 vs $0.75 and $3.75 per 1M tokens

Best for

• Visual question answering over charts, scenes and short videos
• Counting and captioning at a lower price than frontier multimodal models

Watch out for

• In Elorian's own table GPT-6 Astra scores higher on six of the twelve evaluations, including TOMATO temporal reasoning and Video-MME v2
• Post-trained on an open-weights base model Elorian does not name; it publishes no context window or output limit, and no independent benchmark score is recorded here yet