# Gemini 3.8 Flash vs SWE-2

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Gemini 3.8 Flash and SWE-2 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gemini-3-8-flash-vs-swe-2
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3.8 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. SWE-2 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Gemini 3.8 Flash leads overall 75.61 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 4.0 in Agentic, with scores of 19.10% and 27.30%.
- SWE-2 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Gemini 3.8 Flash | SWE-2 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Google | Cognition |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | 75.61 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 19 | 5 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.75 / $3.75 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.8 Flash public-lane score: 66.3 (Supported · #10/152)
- SWE-2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | SWE-2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Finance Agent v2 | 61.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 89.4% | 92.8% | SWE-2 |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 19.10% | 27.30% | SWE-2 |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 59.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 81.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.8 Flash public-lane score: 66.6 (Supported · #10/151)
- SWE-2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | SWE-2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| DeepSWE | 73.8% | 73.0% | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 89.4% | 92.8% | SWE-2 |
| cursorBench32 | 69.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 89.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 80.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 19.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | Coming soon | 50.0% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.8 Flash public-lane score: 82.8 (#8/48)
- SWE-2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | SWE-2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv w/o tools | 86.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LVBench | 87.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.8 Flash public-lane score: 76.9 (#8/20)
- SWE-2 public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.8 Flash public-lane score: 74.9 (Supported · #6/183)
- SWE-2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.8 Flash | SWE-2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE-Verified | 54.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LABBench2 | 86.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-solvable) | 88.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-difficult) | 56.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 94.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 90.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Gemini 3.8 Flash or SWE-2?

Gemini 3.8 Flash is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Gemini 3.8 Flash cover on BenchLM?

Gemini 3.8 Flash currently has 19 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does SWE-2 cover on BenchLM?

SWE-2 currently has 5 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

## Related Comparisons

- [Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber](/compare/gemini-3-8-flash-vs-gemini-3-8-flash-cyber)
- [SWE-2 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber](/compare/gemini-3-8-flash-cyber-vs-swe-2)
- [Gemini 3.8 Flash vs SWE-1.7](/compare/gemini-3-8-flash-vs-swe-1-7)
- [SWE-2 vs SWE-1.7](/compare/swe-1-7-vs-swe-2)

## Explore More

- [Gemini 3.8 Flash profile](/models/gemini-3-8-flash)
- [SWE-2 profile](/models/swe-2)
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- [Overall Rankings](/best/overall)