HEAD TO HEAD

Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Step 1

Community vibe score against API price per 1M tokens. Up and left wins: loved and cheap.

VALUE FOR MONEY

NOT ON THE CHART (NO PUBLIC API PRICE):Step 1STILL IN THE TABLE BELOW. THE CHART ONLY PLOTS MODELS WITH A KNOWN PRICE PER 1M TOKENS.

Metric	Gemini 3.8 Flash x	Step 1 x
VIBE SCORE	6.5	7.4
VOICES	1,258	3,690
RANK	#78	#11
CATEGORY	Multimodal	Text
OPEN/CLOSED	CLOSED	CLOSED
PRICE IN (per 1M)	$0.75 / 1M	N/A
PRICE OUT (per 1M)	$3.75 / 1M	N/A
THE CROWD LOVES	People feel it is worth the money	Popular for coding help
THE CROWD GRUMBLES	Refuses or lectures more than people like	Sometimes makes things up

Fair fights only: chat and coding models compare with each other.

HEAD TO HEAD

Community vibe score against API price per 1M tokens. Up and left wins: loved and cheap.

NOT ON THE CHART (NO PUBLIC API PRICE):Step 1STILL IN THE TABLE BELOW. THE CHART ONLY PLOTS MODELS WITH A KNOWN PRICE PER 1M TOKENS.

Metric	Gemini 3.8 Flash x	Step 1 x
VIBE SCORE	6.5	7.4
VOICES	1,258	3,690
RANK	#78	#11
CATEGORY	Multimodal	Text
OPEN/CLOSED	CLOSED	CLOSED
PRICE IN (per 1M)	$0.75 / 1M	N/A
PRICE OUT (per 1M)	$3.75 / 1M	N/A
THE CROWD LOVES	People feel it is worth the money	Popular for coding help
THE CROWD GRUMBLES	Refuses or lectures more than people like	Sometimes makes things up

Fair fights only: chat and coding models compare with each other.