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Gemini 2.5 Pro
by Google
CLOSEDHOSTEDFREE TO TRYCODING HELPWRITING HELPFAST ANSWERS
RANKED #55 OF 337 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #86 OF 528 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 6.4 · 2,416 VOICES
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A fast, smart Google assistant for everyday writing and programming tasks.
HAPPY8.6
566 mentions
SAD6.4
453 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 866 voices
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
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 2.5 Pro is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.6
Qwen3.8 27BAlibabaStrong multimodal understanding and code abilities you can self-host locally.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE16.1k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.5Qwen3.8 FlashAlibabaFast and lightweight MoE vision-language model great for everyday tasks.⚡ FAST💸 COST EFFICIENT💻 STRONG AT CODE6.6k VOICESMATCH★★★
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.4Dots3 NoteXiaohongshuLong-context multimodal model handling text, vision, audio, and complex agents.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE💻 STRONG AT CODE2.7k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Community members praise Gemini 2.5 Pro for its fast speed, strong coding abilities, and solid value. However, some users run into server errors, occasional made-up information, and frustrating refusals.
1939 POSTS · 477 COMMENTS · REDDIT · HACKER NEWS · BLUESKY · STACK OVERFLOW · GITHUB · X · LEMMY · DEV.TO · OTHER FORUMS · BLOG · DEV FORUMS
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (21 mentions)
- People feel it is worth the money (15 mentions)
- Answers come back fast (4 mentions)
- Good at writing and wording things (3 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Sometimes makes things up (13 mentions)
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (12 mentions)
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (4 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codeMOSTLY POSITIVE
21 thumbs up · 12 thumbs down
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
15 thumbs up · 10 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightA SORE SPOT
6 thumbs up · 13 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 12 thumbs down
- SpeedPEOPLE LOVE THIS
4 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
- WritingPEOPLE LOVE THIS
3 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 4 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM REDDIT >
“Gemini 2.5 Pro is the world's best AI for coding.”
- FROM REDDIT >
“Gemini 2.5 pro seems to be on par or worse than Sonnet 3.7 in coding thinking but not too far from it.”
- FROM REDDIT >
“Gemini 2.5 pro which is 2nd best model to o3 are for poor bc it gives performance at low cost ?.”
- FROM REDDIT >
“The Cursor team hasn't just added the new Gemini 2.5 Pro Max scam, but they've also handicapped the free version through the Google API.”
- FROM BLOG >
“You will notice how Gemini 2.5 Pro, currently the weakest of these four models, doesn’t even accurately keep track of the number of words used.”
- FROM REDDIT >
“It always fails to apply changes then hallucinates how it made changes, this happens probably 2 out of 3 times and it's only getting worse, it has had this problem for at least 2 months.”
- FROM REDDIT >
“i hate these errors due to server overload.”
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for Gemini 2.5 Pro.
Grok 4.6> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2026-04-25 · 1204 UPVOTESI think I'll leave this subreddit and here's why
I think I'll leave this subreddit and here's why
- REDDIT · 2025-04-07 · 1178 UPVOTESI switched back to Google... and I kinda hate that it's good now
I switched back to Google... and I kinda hate that it's good now
- REDDIT · 2025-12-15 · 1008 UPVOTESGoogle just dropped a new Agentic Benchmark: Gemini 3 Pro beat Pokémon Crystal (defeating Red) using 50% fewer tokens than Gemini 2.5 Pro.
Google just dropped a new Agentic Benchmark: Gemini 3 Pro beat Pokémon Crystal (defeating Red) using 50% fewer tokens than Gemini 2.5 Pro.
- REDDIT · 2025-05-19 · 942 UPVOTESCursor intentionally slowing non-fast requests (Proof) and more.
Cursor intentionally slowing non-fast requests (Proof) and more.
- REDDIT · 2025-03-30 · 846 UPVOTESGoogle is surprisingly rolling out Gemini 2.5 Pro (exp) to free users
Google is surprisingly rolling out Gemini 2.5 Pro (exp) to free users
- REDDIT · 2025-04-09 · 744 UPVOTESGemini 2.5 Pro got added to MC-Bench and results look great
Gemini 2.5 Pro got added to MC-Bench and results look great
- REDDIT · 2025-06-05 · 721 UPVOTESGemini 2.5 Pro latest update is now in preview.
Gemini 2.5 Pro latest update is now in preview.
- REDDIT · 2025-05-03 · 702 UPVOTESGemini 2.5 Pro just completed Pokémon Blue!
Gemini 2.5 Pro just completed Pokémon Blue!
- REDDIT · 2025-03-26 · 662 UPVOTESGemini 2.5 pro livebench
Gemini 2.5 pro livebench
- REDDIT · 2025-03-25 · 580 UPVOTESGemini 2.5 Pro benchmarks released
Gemini 2.5 Pro benchmarks released
- REDDIT · 2025-04-29 · 561 UPVOTES9 months coding with Cursor.ai
9 months coding with Cursor.ai
- REDDIT · 2025-09-07 · 507 UPVOTESGemini 2.5 Pro is still first in LMArena Text, despite being rather old (6 months)
Gemini 2.5 Pro is still first in LMArena Text, despite being rather old (6 months)