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Gemini 3.5 Flash

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Llama-3.1 8B

✍️ Analysis by:the whichllmmodel Editorial Team|📅 Updated: June 2026

Decision Recommendation

⚖️ Editorial Verdict: In our analysis, Gemini 3.5 Flash is the premium intelligence choice, scoring 55.1% higher on coding benchmarks. However, this accuracy premium comes with a cost overhead: Llama-3.1 8B is 1.0x cheaper to run. If you are building high-volume, simple chatbots or processing massive amounts of text where budget is critical, Llama-3.1 8B offers excellent cost savings. For agentic reasoning, code refactoring, or complex logical tasks, the accuracy premium of Gemini 3.5 Flash fully justifies the cost.

Model Specs

Gemini 3.5 Flash

Benchmarks & Scores

Coding (swe-bench-pro)Winner (+)
55.1%
Reasoning (gpqa-diamond)Winner (+61.8%)
92.2%

Cost & Performance

Cost (per 1M tokens)
$3.38Input: $1.50 | Output: $9.00
Speed1.5x faster
280 tps
Context WindowLarger
1M tokens
Model Specs

Llama-3.1 8B

Benchmarks & Scores

Coding (swe-bench-pro)
N/A
Reasoning (gpqa-diamond)
30.4%

Cost & Performance

Cost (per 1M tokens)
N/AInput: N/A | Output: N/A
Speed
193 tps
Context Window
131.07k tokens
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Frequently Asked Questions

Pricing data is currently unavailable for one or both of these models, so a direct cost comparison cannot be determined.

Gemini 3.5 Flash is faster than Llama-3.1 8B. Gemini 3.5 Flash generates 280 tokens per second (tps) compared to Llama-3.1 8B which generates 193 tokens per second.

Gemini 3.5 Flash is better for coding tasks. It scores 55.1% on coding evaluations (swe-bench-pro) compared to Llama-3.1 8B which scores N/A.

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