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Gemini 1.5 Flash
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RANKED #197 OF 316 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #297 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.8 · 550 VOICES ·
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Gemini 1.5 Flash from Gemini.
HAPPY8.3
39 mentions
SAD6.7
98 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 534 voices in this window
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. Google hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
Gemini 1.5 Flash is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.4
Qwen3.8 FlashAlibabaPick for fast multimodal reasoning and long context agent tasks with open weights.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💸 COST EFFICIENT💻 STRONG AT CODE8.2k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.6Qwen3.8 27BAlibabaPick to run capable multimodal vision and coding tasks privately on local hardware.🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE🪶 RUNS ON LESS💻 STRONG AT CODE21.2k VOICESMATCH★★★
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.3Dots3 NoteXiaohongshuPick for open multimodal processing across text, vision, and audio workflows.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💸 COST EFFICIENT2.9k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly frustrated with Gemini 1.5 Flash right now.
534 POSTS · 16 COMMENTS · GITHUB · X · REDDIT · DEV.TO · HACKER NEWS · LEMMY
PEOPLE LOVE
- Stable and dependable (1 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (3 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM GITHUB >
“Fix Gemini 1.5 flash model not found crash.”
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- REDDIT · 2026-05-19 · 670 UPVOTESGemini 3.5 flash costs 3 times more than the previous version and 30x more than gemini 1.5 flash.
Gemini 3.5 flash costs 3 times more than the previous version and 30x more than gemini 1.5 flash.
- REDDIT · 2024-08-27 · 296 UPVOTESGoogle rolls out Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, Stronger Gemini 1.5 Pro (Better Coding/Complex prompts) and improved Gemini 1.5 Flash Model - TODAY -…
Google rolls out Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, Stronger Gemini 1.5 Pro (Better Coding/Complex prompts) and improved Gemini 1.5 Flash Model - TODAY - Logan Kilaptrick
- REDDIT · 2024-08-08 · 258 UPVOTESGemini 1.5 Flash price is now ~70% lower
Gemini 1.5 Flash price is now ~70% lower
- REDDIT · 2024-05-29 · 221 UPVOTESGoogle doubled the output price of Gemini 1.5 Flash already
Google doubled the output price of Gemini 1.5 Flash already
- REDDIT · 2024-08-01 · 191 UPVOTESGemini 1.5 Flash is now 80% cheaper. It is now >50% cheaper than gpt4o-mini
Gemini 1.5 Flash is now 80% cheaper. It is now >50% cheaper than gpt4o-mini
- REDDIT · 2024-09-24 · 172 UPVOTESGemini-1.5-Pro-002 and Gemini-1.5-Flash-002 benchmark
Gemini-1.5-Pro-002 and Gemini-1.5-Flash-002 benchmark
- REDDIT · 2025-04-25 · 97 UPVOTESRoo Code 3.14 Gemini 2.5 Caching Apply Diff Improvements, and ALOT More!
Roo Code 3.14 Gemini 2.5 Caching Apply Diff Improvements, and ALOT More!
- REDDIT · 2025-05-19 · 88 UPVOTESRewind: Google I/O 2024
Rewind: Google I/O 2024
- REDDIT · 2024-08-08 · 68 UPVOTESGemini 1.5 Flash Price Drop
Gemini 1.5 Flash Price Drop
- REDDIT · 2025-01-13 · 66 UPVOTESLlamaV-o1: Rethinking Step-by-step Visual Reasoning in LLMs - Outperforms GPT-4o-mini and Gemini-1.5-Flash on the visual reasoning…
LlamaV-o1: Rethinking Step-by-step Visual Reasoning in LLMs - Outperforms GPT-4o-mini and Gemini-1.5-Flash on the visual reasoning benchmark!
- REDDIT · 2024-07-26 · 56 UPVOTESThis week in AI - all the Major AI developments in a nutshell
This week in AI - all the Major AI developments in a nutshell
- REDDIT · 2025-06-09 · 51 UPVOTESHow to train an AI on my PDFs
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