Webnovel Translation Benchmark

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Gemini 3.8 Flash for web novel translation

How Gemini 3.8 Flash by Google translated eleven chapters of a Korean web novel into English: rank 1 of 28.

88.0quality score of 100
$0.083per chapter at list price
$8.28per 100 chapters
1250head-to-head rating

No model in this test scored higher for the same price or less.

Scored by a judge of its own family. Under an independent judge it still ranked first among the models re-checked, by a smaller margin.

Score by quality

Accuracy5.0 / 5meaning carried over correctly
Terminology2.6 / 5names, titles and martial-arts terms kept consistent across chapters
Register5.0 / 5tone and speech levels (honorifics, banter, formality)
Fluency5.0 / 5reads as natural English prose
Fidelity5.0 / 5nothing added, dropped or summarised
Sanitization5.0 / 5violence and crude language kept, not softened

11 of 11 chapters were scored; a chapter the model refused or failed is counted separately. It wrote about 16,669 output tokens per chapter, reasoning included.