Agentic
Not comparable- Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
- Not ranked
- Inkling
- 38.3
- Supported · #123/153
- Basis
- BenchAlign lane · 0 vs 4 public rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking vs Inkling
Updated September 15, 2026. Public scores include evidence status and uncertainty. They are not guarantees for a specific workload.
Decision reading
The public evidence has no benchmark result shared by both models, so it does not support a quality verdict. Use the documented cost, context, and runtime rows instead.
0 results are shared. Category rows resting on Estimated evidence or different benchmark sets are marked directional and do not name a winner.
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Which one for your work
Recommendations appear only when a shared evidence basis or an explicit operating constraint supports the call. Secondary and unsupported use cases stay disclosed below the initial list.
Long documents
Prompts that approach the documented context limit
Inkling
Inkling has the larger documented context window.
Confidence: documented
Chat turn cost
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
Confidence: listed-rates
Show secondary and unsupported calls
Repository review cost
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
Confidence: listed-rates
Coding work
Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks
Not enough matched evidence
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking is not ranked on the public lane for coding, so no winner is named for coding.
Confidence: limited
Agentic work
Tool use, computer use, and multi-step task completion
Not enough matched evidence
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking is not ranked on the public lane for agentic, so no winner is named for agentic.
Confidence: limited
Cache-heavy agent loop cost
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
Not enough matched evidence
The page does not recommend a cost winner because at least one model cannot fit the stated workload in one request. Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking does not fit this workload in one request. Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.
Confidence: rate-fallback
What is actually comparable
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results present for only one model describe coverage, not superiority.
21 Inkling only
- Shared results
- 0
- Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking only
- 0
- Inkling only
- 21
- Like-for-like categories
- 0 / 8
Category results, on a stated basis
Each row shows the public-lane category score for both models: the BenchAlign lane for agentic, coding, and knowledge, and the weighted public rows elsewhere, with the same rank each model page reports. A row is like-for-like only when both scores rest on Supported evidence or the same weighted set. Directional and not-comparable rows remain visible, but they never receive a winner.
Coding
Not comparable- Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
- Not ranked
- Inkling
- 41.1
- Supported · #112/152
- Basis
- BenchAlign lane · 0 vs 6 public rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Reasoning
Not comparable- Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
- Not ranked
- Inkling
- 74.1
- Unranked · 2 rankable rows
- Basis
- Provisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Knowledge
Not comparable- Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
- Not ranked
- Inkling
- 57.4
- Supported · #43/183
- Basis
- BenchAlign lane · 0 vs 6 public rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Math
Not comparable- Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
- Not ranked
- Inkling
- 78.9
- Unranked · 1 rankable row
- Basis
- Provisional lane · 0 vs 1 weighted rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Multilingual
Not comparable- Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
- Not ranked
- Inkling
- Not ranked
- Basis
- Provisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Multimodal
Not comparable- Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
- Not ranked
- Inkling
- 49.2
- #38/48
- Basis
- Provisional lane · 0 vs 2 weighted rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
Instruction following
Not comparable- Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
- Not ranked
- Inkling
- 85.2
- #44/123
- Basis
- Provisional lane · 0 vs 1 weighted rows
- Reading
- Not comparable
| Category | Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking | Inkling | Basis | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic | Not ranked | 38.3Supported · #123/153 | Not comparableBenchAlign lane · 0 vs 4 public rows | Not comparable |
| Coding | Not ranked | 41.1Supported · #112/152 | Not comparableBenchAlign lane · 0 vs 6 public rows | Not comparable |
| Reasoning | Not ranked | 74.1Unranked · 2 rankable rows | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Knowledge | Not ranked | 57.4Supported · #43/183 | Not comparableBenchAlign lane · 0 vs 6 public rows | Not comparable |
| Math | Not ranked | 78.9Unranked · 1 rankable row | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 1 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Multilingual | Not ranked | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Multimodal | Not ranked | 49.2#38/48 | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 2 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Instruction following | Not ranked | 85.2#44/123 | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 1 weighted rows | Not comparable |
Ranks count the models scored in each category’s lane, so the agentic, coding, and knowledge denominators (BenchAlign) differ from the provisional-lane categories. Unranked scores sit on the lane’s scale but never name a winner. Like-for-like rows within 0.5 points read as a practical tie.
Shape of the matched evidence
Only shared public evidence is shown. Sparse evidence stays a ruled list rather than being closed into a radar shape.
A shared-evidence shape is not available.
BenchLM does not draw a radar or infer missing axes when the matched evidence is too sparse.
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes turn per-token rates into comparable decisions. Each scenario states context fit and whether cached input had to fall back to the published list-input rate.
Chat turn
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
- Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
- $0.003
- Fits in one request
- Inkling
- $0.00421
- Fits in one request
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking has the lower modeled cost
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
Repository review
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
- Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
- $0.051
- Fits in one request
- Inkling
- $0.10754
- Fits in one request
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking has the lower modeled cost
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
Cache-heavy agent loop
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
- Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
- $0.21
- Does not fit in one request
- Cached input priced at the published list-input rate
- Inkling
- $0.159
- Fits in one request
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking does not fit this workload in one request. Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.
Specification differences
Sourced differences are shown directly. Missing facts stay explicit instead of being inferred from a model name or family.
SpecificationGemini 3.8 Live Extended ThinkingInkling
Context window
Maximum documented context; output-token limits may be lower.
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Inkling
1M
API model ID
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
gemini-3.8-live-extended-thinking
Google model documentationInkling
Not sourced
Cached-input rate
A missing cached-input rate falls back to the listed input rate only in the stated workload estimate.
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Not published
Google model documentationInkling
$0.374 per 1M cached input tokens
Documented inputs
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Not sourced
Inkling
Not sourced
Documented outputs
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Not sourced
Inkling
Not sourced
Provider availability
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Not sourced
Inkling
Not sourced
Reasoning profile
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Reasoning
Inkling
Hybrid
Weight access
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Proprietary
Inkling
Open Weight
License
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Proprietary
Inkling
Open Weight
Release date
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
2026-09-15
Inkling
2026-07-15
If you already use one of these models
- Deployment change
- The models list different providers, so authentication, endpoint behavior, limits, and feature support may change.
- Quality signal
- The public evidence has no benchmark result shared by both models, so it does not support a quality verdict.
- Workload cost
- Repository review: $0.051 vs $0.10754. Cache-heavy agent loop: $0.21 vs $0.159.
- Context tradeoff
- Inkling has the larger documented window (1M).
Run the same representative tasks against both endpoints before changing production traffic.
Benchmark evidence
The full public result ledger is available for audit without forcing a wide desktop table onto a phone.
Browse raw public benchmark evidence21 rows
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.0
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking—Inkling63.8%SourceNot directly comparable
BrowseComp
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking—Inkling77.1%SourceNot directly comparable
MCP Atlas
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking—Inkling74.1%SourceNot directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking—Inkling47.6%SourceNot directly comparable
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking—Inkling77.6%SourceNot directly comparable
SWE-bench Pro
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking—Inkling54.3%SourceNot directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.0
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking—Inkling63.8%SourceNot directly comparable
FrontierSWE v2
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking—Inkling4.1%SourceNot directly comparable
LiveCodeBench (Vals)
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking—Inkling85.5%SourceNot directly comparable
SWE-bench (Vals)
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking—Inkling77.6%SourceNot directly comparable
Knowledge
GPQA
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking—Inkling87.9%SourceNot directly comparable
GPQA-D
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking—Inkling87.9%SourceNot directly comparable
HLE
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking—Inkling46%SourceNot directly comparable
HLE w/o tools
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking—Inkling30%SourceNot directly comparable
GPQA Diamond (Vals)
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking—Inkling87.1%SourceNot directly comparable
MMLU-Pro (Vals)
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking—Inkling86.3%SourceNot directly comparable
Math
AIME26
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking—Inkling97.1%SourceNot directly comparable
Multimodal
Instruction following
IFBench
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking—Inkling79.8%SourceNot directly comparable
Frequently asked questions
Which is better, Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking or Inkling?
The public evidence has no benchmark result shared by both models, so it does not support a quality verdict. The page therefore keeps the decision tied to the specific documented workload.
Which is better for coding, Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking or Inkling?
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking is not ranked on the public lane for coding, so no winner is named for coding.
Which is better for agentic tasks, Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking or Inkling?
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking is not ranked on the public lane for agentic tasks, so no winner is named for agentic tasks.
Which costs less, Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking or Inkling?
For the stated presets, chat costs $0.003 on Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking and $0.00421 on Inkling; repository review costs $0.051 and $0.10754; the cache-heavy agent loop costs $0.21 and $0.159. Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking does not fit this workload in one request. Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.
Which has the larger context window, Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking or Inkling?
Inkling has the larger documented context window: 1M, compared with 128K.
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Last updated September 15, 2026
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