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Gemini 3.5 Flash
by Google
CLOSEDHOSTEDANALYZING DOCUMENTSWRITING HELPPROBLEM SOLVING
RANKED #187 OF 228 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #288 OF 6,618 · VIBE SCORE 5.4 · 392 VOICES
A versatile Google AI model built for everyday tasks and analyzing complex information.
HAPPY7.4
50 mentions
SAD7.6
50 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 836 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 3.5 Flash is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS5.4
Llama 4 MaverickMetaPick for superior offline coding and reasoning without relying on cloud APIs.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE❤️ CROWD FAVORITE1.9k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.3Muse Glimmer 30BMetaPick for a highly stable, dependable local agent with robust vision capabilities.🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY179 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.
365 POSTS · 27 COMMENTS · REDDIT · BLUESKY · HACKER NEWS · X · GITHUB · LEMMY · DEV.TO · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (6 mentions)
- People feel it is worth the money (4 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (3 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
6 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
4 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM REDDIT >
“Gemini 3.5 flash is not that great at coding.”
- FROM REDDIT >
“Gemini 3.5 Flash is twice as expensive as ChatGPT 5.5 on GitHub Copilot.”
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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 · 2026-05-21 · 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
- REDDIT · 2026-05-20 · 178 UPVOTESGemini 3.5 Flash scores 76.7% on SimpleBench, just 0.2% short of GPT 5.5 Pro's score
Gemini 3.5 Flash scores 76.7% on SimpleBench, just 0.2% short of GPT 5.5 Pro's score