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Gemini 3.5 Flash
by Google
CLOSEDHOSTEDANALYZING DOCUMENTSWRITING HELPPROBLEM SOLVING
RANKED #237 OF 337 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #378 OF 528 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.4 · 979 VOICES
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A versatile Google AI model built for everyday tasks and analyzing complex information.
HAPPY7.5
120 mentions
SAD7.5
119 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 1,746 voices
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 3.5 Flash 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 27BAlibabaRun locally on consumer GPUs for private everyday multimodal reasoning and coding.🪶 RUNS ON LESS🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE💻 STRONG AT CODE16.0k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.5Qwen3.8 FlashAlibabaHigh speed multimodal MoE built for rapid agentic workflows and coding tasks.⚡ FAST💻 STRONG AT CODE💸 COST EFFICIENT6.6k VOICESMATCH★★★
- OPEN WEIGHTS7
GLM 5.3 FlashZhipuFrontier multimodal reasoning and visual coding at high throughput and low cost.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE💸 COST EFFICIENT8.6k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Users generally feel Gemini 3.5 Flash is worth the money, but some complain about its high cost compared to older versions. Others are disappointed by occasional hallucinations, outages, and subpar coding help.
919 POSTS · 64 COMMENTS · REDDIT · BLUESKY · HACKER NEWS · X · LEMMY · GITHUB · DEV.TO · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (9 mentions)
- People feel it is worth the money (6 mentions)
- Answers come back fast (3 mentions)
- Stable and dependable (3 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Coding help disappoints some people (4 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codeMOSTLY POSITIVE
9 thumbs up · 4 thumbs down
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
6 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- SpeedPEOPLE LOVE THIS
3 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
- Working when you need itPEOPLE LOVE THIS
3 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM REDDIT >
“Gemini 3.5 flash is not that great at coding.”
- FROM REDDIT >
“Claude Code (Opus 4.7) is a frustrating mess right now compared to Gemini 3.5 Flash.”
- FROM LEMMY >
“Google just dropped Gemini 3.5 Flash and the price hike is pretty insane..”
- FROM REDDIT >
“Gemini 3.5 Flash is twice as expensive as ChatGPT 5.5 on GitHub Copilot.”
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for Gemini 3.5 Flash.
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- REDDIT · 2026-05-19 · 1084 UPVOTESBehold, Gemini 3.5 Flash!
Behold, Gemini 3.5 Flash!
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-05-19 · 962 UPVOTESGemini 3.5 Flash
Gemini 3.5 Flash
- REDDIT · 2026-05-21 · 944 UPVOTESGoogle's latest creation: Gemini 3.5 Flash vs all
Google's latest creation: Gemini 3.5 Flash vs all
- 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 · 2026-05-19 · 537 UPVOTESCrazy 💀 gemini 3.5 flash so close to opus 4.7 and gpt 5.5
Crazy 💀 gemini 3.5 flash so close to opus 4.7 and gpt 5.5
- REDDIT · 2026-06-10 · 362 UPVOTESModel Showdown: Fable vs. Everyone
Model Showdown: Fable vs. Everyone
- REDDIT · 2026-05-20 · 340 UPVOTESGemini 3.5 flash is not that great at coding
Gemini 3.5 flash is not that great at coding
- REDDIT · 2026-06-13 · 270 UPVOTESgoogle is way too quiet right now, and Gemini 3.5 Pro has to hit different
google is way too quiet right now, and Gemini 3.5 Pro has to hit different
- REDDIT · 2026-05-21 · 269 UPVOTESGemini 3.5 Flash ranks #1 on Automation Bench (from Zapier), beating every other frontier model at a much lower cost
Gemini 3.5 Flash ranks #1 on Automation Bench (from Zapier), beating every other frontier model at a much lower cost
- X · 2026-08-14 · 254 UPVOTESQwen 3.8-27B scores 42.2% on DeepSWE. Better than Gemini 3.5 Flash and close behind GLM-5.2 Max
Qwen 3.8-27B scores 42.2% on DeepSWE. Better than Gemini 3.5 Flash and close behind GLM-5.2 Max
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-06-24 · 242 UPVOTESComputer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
- REDDIT · 2026-05-19 · 190 UPVOTESGemini 3.5 Flash available with 14x request multipier
Gemini 3.5 Flash available with 14x request multipier