It regains Toolathlon's top rank after five months.
Google is held to an unreasonably high standard. Flash would ordinarily be 10% of the cost of GPT-5.5. We're not in the age where Only Google hill-climbs hard math. Even fucking Anthropic ships models that beat… DeepSeek. Everyone is serious now.
If this is Gemini 3.2 flash, it's strictly worse than gpt 5.5 at math. Fails MathArena Apex #11 and #12/ IMO p6
Positive users praise Gemini 3.5 Flash for strong benchmark results on speed, efficiency, and lower cost versus larger models, while negative users accuse the claims of deception and call the model unusable for real development.
How does the newly revealed pricing compare to its predecessors and current competitors?
Gemini 3.5 Flash at $1.5/$9 per million tokens costs 3–20× more than prior Gemini Flash models such as Gemini 1.5 Flash ($0.075/$0.30) or Gemini 3 Flash ($0.50/$3). ¹
It undercuts current competitors like Claude Sonnet 4.6 ($3/$15) and GPT-4o-class models (~$2.5/$10) while sparking debate on whether the higher Flash price reflects upgraded capability.
What can one infer from this pricing ?
The pricing signals Gemini 3.5 Flash is a stronger, more capable model than typical lightweight Flash tiers, with output costs aligned to rival mid-tier options like Claude Sonnet rather than cheap fast models. High quotas and the 4x scaling speculation for a potential 3.5 Pro further suggest Google is pushing performance boundaries while undercutting some competitors on value.
Gemini Flash 3.5 is now on CursorBench, our main coding agent eval.
We’ll keep updating the leaderboard as new models come out.
https://cursor.com/evals
Oh my god it scored worse than Composer 2! Not even 2.5! And it cost 4x more to run!!!
This might be the worst major lab model drop of all time. Llama 4 tier. Insane.
Gemini Flash 3.5 is now on CursorBench, our main coding agent eval.
We’ll keep updating the leaderboard as new models come out.
https://cursor.com/evals
Meet Gemini 3.5 Flash — our strongest agentic and coding model yet.
It delivers frontier-level performance at 4x the speed of comparable frontier models — often at less than half the cost.
Generally available, starting today. 🧵
#GoogleIO
Gemini 3.5 feels like the start of a new era for Gemini, we spent the last 2.5 years putting the infrastructure, products, team, etc in place (learning lots of lessons along the way).
The model is the product, please keep the feedback coming!
Welcome to Gemini 3.5 Flash, our most powerful model to date. It pushes the frontier of intelligence, speed, and cost putting 3.5 Flash in a class of its own.
We spent the last 6 months making sure Flash is great for real world use cases. It's available everywhere now!
Just off stage at #GoogleIO, some highlights from this morning 🧵
Gemini 3.5 Flash is available today for everyone in @antigravity and across our products and APIs.
Compared to 3.1 Pro, 3.5 Flash is better across almost all benchmarks with huge progress in coding. It’s also comparable to the best models but very fast (4x faster tokens/ second than other frontier models). And when looking at the intelligence versus output speed, it’s in a league of its own in the top right quadrant.
Introducing Gemini 3.5: our newest family of models combining frontier intelligence with real-world action.
The first release is 3.5 Flash, our strongest model yet for agents and coding 🧵
Gemini 3.5 Flash is built to help you execute complex, agentic workflows.
3.5 Flash rivals flagship models to deliver frontier performance for agents and coding, at the lightning speeds you expect from the Flash series.
Meet Gemini 3.5 Flash — our strongest agentic and coding model yet.
It delivers frontier-level performance at 4x the speed of comparable frontier models — often at less than half the cost.
Generally available, starting today. 🧵
#GoogleIO
Holy shit man
Gemini 3.5 Flash is built to help you execute complex, agentic workflows.
3.5 Flash rivals flagship models to deliver frontier performance for agents and coding, at the lightning speeds you expect from the Flash series.
Gemini 3.5 Flash is amazing!
- Performs better than 3.1 Pro on coding & agentic tasks - 4x faster than other frontier models - 12x faster in @antigravity - 800 tokens/sec! - Often at less than half the cost
And Pro to come…
Try it in @antigravity, @GeminiApp & more - enjoy!
Gemini Omni Flash is rolling out starting today.
Here’s where you can find it:
🔹 Today: Google AI Plus, Pro and Ultra subscribers globally in the @GeminiApp and @FlowbyGoogle .
🔹Rolling out starting this week, for no cost: @YouTube Shorts and the YouTube Create app.
🔹Coming weeks: developers and enterprise customers via APIs.
#GoogleIO
bruh
Gemini 3.5 Flash ranks #1 on the APEX-Agents-AA benchmark, outperforming much larger models a whole size above it.
Wait wtf, they STILL haven't updated pretraining???
gemini 3.5 knowledge cutoff is jan 2025 (TWENTY TWENTY FIVE) [17 months ago]
Its cool that its a refinement of the 3 pro base, but insane that they still havent pretrained a new model to release
1/ Today at #GoogleIO, we’re releasing Gemini 3.5, our latest family of models combining frontier intelligence with action.
We’re starting by releasing 3.5 Flash, which is built to help you execute complex, long-horizon agentic workflows.
Gemini 3.5 Flash is our strongest model for coding and agent http://yet.It outscores 3.1 Pro on agentic and coding benchmarks like Terminal-Bench and MCP Atlas, while running 4x faster than other frontier models.
Used in Google Antigravity, 3.5 Flash is even further optimized to be up to 12x faster. It’s a powerful engine to deploy sub-agents that collaborate, run high-frequency iterative loops, and solve real-world problems at scale.
Some highlights we’re excited about 🔽
Gemini 3.5 Flash is a really interesting release.
It's super fast and surprisingly smart. It's also more expensive (3x more per token) and super token hungry.
The result - it costs 2x more to run than Gemini 3.1 Pro on similar tasks. It's more expensive than GPT-5.5 Medium.
GPT-5.5-medium has lower end-to-end latency, uses less tokens and is overall smarter and cheaper than Gemini 3.5 Flash
it might genuinely be over for anyone not named OpenAI or Anthropic
some more Gemini 3.5 Flash benchmarks by Artificial Analysis AI: - the APEX-Agents-AA score is excellent - expected higher on CritPt - reasoning efficiency could also be better, but it kind of depends on what setting they used. if it's the max then it's very good - Price/Perf looks pretty bad vs GPT-5.5. You can get GPT-5.5-medium with better performance for less and with faster responses
Clearly these people haven’t experienced the magic of Gemini 3.5 Flash Preview on High in the new Antigravity CLI
Google CEO tries to tell University students to love AI.
They tell him to BOO off.
This is what most people think of the hated AI, we don't want it.
Massive updates to @GoogleAIStudio and the Gemini API 🤯
- Gemini 3.5 Flash! - managed agents so you can easily build agentic products with the antigravity harness - native Android app creation right in AI Studio - native workspace integrations - 1 click export to antigravity
Gemini 3.5 is 30x more expensive than 1.5
