Beats 3.1 Pro for price per token, but artificial analysis is showing it's dumber per token and costs more overall

Arena.ai is saying "Gemini 3.5 Flash’s pricing shifts the Pareto frontier in Text. 8 models from GoogleDeepMind dominate the Text Arena Pareto curve where only 4 labs are represented for top performance in their price tiers."

https://x.com/arena/status/2056793180998361233

Not sure what to think about this. There is no even GPT 5.5

Yeah, bummer. I was very excited for this release, but this killed it.

The pricing is an issue.