> 3.5 Flash is supposed to address this, but I haven't had a good reason to try it.
Price and speed, for me. GLM5.2 is "good enough" for some tasks, but rather slow (on their coding plan). In the time it takes GLM to "read files to figure out...", gemini flash is usually finished. It's not SotA for coding, but it's fast and often "good enough" for normal tasks.
> Price and speed, for me.
For Flash 3.5?
I'm a big fan of Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview (yes that is the name..).
I keep a agentic SQL benchmark up to-date to test new models. It's more-or-less saturated above 23/25 but below that is still useful, and even at that level is good for comparing speed, cost and toke efficiency.
3.1 Flash Lite Preview scores 22/25 in 142 seconds for $0.02. That's a great result if you care about cost for performance.
3.5 Flash scores 20/25 in 367 seconds for $0.76. The slow speed is because it takes a lot of tokens to generate its results, so even if tokens are produced quickly it takes too many to get a positive result.
There's nothing I've seen or heard that indicates 3.5 Flash is better than this indicates.
https://sql-benchmark.nicklothian.com/?highlight=google_gemi.... vs https://sql-benchmark.nicklothian.com/?highlight=google_gemi... (click the cells to see the traces)