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Results are just as good, but it's slower
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In the thread “Please don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash”
Helped: DeepSeek V4 Flash provides comparable results to the removed model.
Got in the way: Qwen 2.5 Coder was removed, breaking dependent tools.
… I've settled on deepseek-v4-flash as a replacement. Results are just as good, but it's slower.