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It's actually 10-15% slower and also more expensive than Gemini 3.1 Pro, because it thinks more than 2.5x Gemini 3.1 Pro
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10-15% slower and also more expensive than Gemini 3.1 Pro
In the thread “Gemini 3.5 Flash”
Got in the way: Thinking verbosity nullified speed/cost gains; quality worse than 3.1 Pro.
In my tests, in real production use cases, it's a hard pass. It's actually 10-15% slower and also more expensive than Gemini 3.1 Pro, because it thinks more than 2.5x Gemini 3.1 Pro. So that thinking verbosity nullifies the speed and cost gains. …