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Gemini 3 Flash
by Google
CLOSEDHOSTEDAPILONG CONTEXTPAIDREASONING
RANKED #34 OF 228 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #58 OF 6,618 · VIBE SCORE 6.6 · 311 VOICES
Gemini 3 Flash Preview is a high speed, high value thinking model designed for agentic workflows, multi turn chat, and coding assistance. It delivers near Pro level reasoning and tool...
HAPPY9.7
75 mentions
SAD5.3
27 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 347 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 Flash is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.5
Qwen3.8 27BAlibabaRuns locally on consumer hardware with native vision and strong coding capabilities.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE5.7k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS5.4
Llama 4 MaverickMetaHigh tier multimodal MoE delivering frontier reasoning and vision without closed APIs.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE❤️ CROWD FAVORITE1.9k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.7
Mistral SmallMistralLightweight open vision model that is fast to run on modest local hardware.🪶 RUNS ON LESS⚡ FAST💸 COST EFFICIENT922 VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
The internet is split on Gemini 3 Flash. Biggest praise: price. Biggest gripe: getting facts right.
270 POSTS · 41 COMMENTS · HACKER NEWS · GITHUB · REDDIT · LEMMY · X · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- People feel it is worth the money (4 mentions)
- Popular for coding help (2 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Sometimes makes things up (6 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Getting facts rightA SORE SPOT
2 thumbs up · 6 thumbs down
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
4 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
- Help with codeMOSTLY POSITIVE
2 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM REDDIT >
“Agentic annotation in Ubik Studio with Gemini 3 Flash looking speedy, cheap, and accurate..”
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Grok 4.6> SOURCES (12)
- HACKER NEWS · 2025-12-17 · 1102 UPVOTESGemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed
Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed
- REDDIT · 2025-12-22 · 912 UPVOTESGemini 3 Flash can reliably count fingers (AI Studio – High reasoning)
Gemini 3 Flash can reliably count fingers (AI Studio – High reasoning)
- REDDIT · 2025-12-08 · 602 UPVOTESNEW Nano Banana powered by Gemini 3 Flash is coming
NEW Nano Banana powered by Gemini 3 Flash is coming
- REDDIT · 2025-12-17 · 577 UPVOTESGoogle just can't stop winning.
Google just can't stop winning.
- REDDIT · 2025-12-17 · 495 UPVOTESGoogle releases Gemini 3 Flash: Ranks #3 on LMArena (above Opus 4.5), scores 99.7% on AIME and costs $0.50/1M plus Benchmarks.
Google releases Gemini 3 Flash: Ranks #3 on LMArena (above Opus 4.5), scores 99.7% on AIME and costs $0.50/1M plus Benchmarks.
- REDDIT · 2026-01-28 · 488 UPVOTESGoogle introduces Agentic Vision in Gemini 3 Flash
Google introduces Agentic Vision in Gemini 3 Flash
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-04-27 · 393 UPVOTESShow HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview
Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview
- LEMMY · 2026-02-25 · 322 UPVOTESAIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear…
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases
- REDDIT · 2025-08-06 · 284 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
Comment in r/singularity
- REDDIT · 2025-12-17 · 277 UPVOTESGoogle just can't stop winning.
Google just can't stop winning.
- REDDIT · 2025-12-17 · 260 UPVOTESGPT-5.2-High falling to #15 on LMArena is crazy, behind GPT 5.1, Opus4.5 and even Gemini-3-Flash
GPT-5.2-High falling to #15 on LMArena is crazy, behind GPT 5.1, Opus4.5 and even Gemini-3-Flash
- REDDIT · 2026-02-20 · 216 UPVOTES"I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models
"I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models