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Re: Gemini 3.5 Flash

#61
post #8

$1.5/m input tokens $9/m output tokens 6x the price of 3.1 flash lite

I haven't used 3.5 at all yet, but previous Gemini (and Gemma models) are by far the most token light per task than any other model.

Cost per task is a more productive measure, but obviously a more difficult one to benchmark.

Re: Gemini 3.5 Flash

#62
post #27

> Create animated SVG of a frog on a boat rowing through jungle river. Single page self contained HTML page with SVG 3.5 Flash: Thinking Medium - 7516 tokens https://gistpreview.github.io/?5c9858fd2057e678b55d563d9bff0... 3.5 Flash: Thinking High - 7280 tokens https://gistpreview.github.io/?1cab3d70064349d08cf5952cdc165... 3.1 Pro - 28,258 tokens https://gistpreview.github.io/?6bf3da2f80487608b9525bce53018... Though…

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Thinking High - 2,526 tokens:

https://gistpreview.github.io/?3496285c5dac5ba10ebbc0b201a1a...

Gemini 2.5 Pro - 5,325 tokens:

https://gistpreview.github.io/?cc5e0fefeaaffecd228c16c95e736...

Gemini 2.5 Flash - 7,556 tokens:

https://gistpreview.github.io/?263d6058fe526a62b8f270f0620ec...

Gemma 4 31B IT - 3,261 tokens via AI Studio:

https://gistpreview.github.io/?858a42b96af864859a3b89508619d...

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT - 4,034 tokens via AI Studio:

https://gistpreview.github.io/?4adb7703897e0c6b583f9de928e4a...

Re: Gemini 3.5 Flash

#64
post #27

> Create animated SVG of a frog on a boat rowing through jungle river. Single page self contained HTML page with SVG 3.5 Flash: Thinking Medium - 7516 tokens https://gistpreview.github.io/?5c9858fd2057e678b55d563d9bff0... 3.5 Flash: Thinking High - 7280 tokens https://gistpreview.github.io/?1cab3d70064349d08cf5952cdc165... 3.1 Pro - 28,258 tokens https://gistpreview.github.io/?6bf3da2f80487608b9525bce53018... Though…

hesamation/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Reasoning-Distilled-GGUF @ Q6_K

8112 tokens @ 52.97 TPS, 0.85s TTFT

https://gistpreview.github.io/?7bdefff99aca89d1bc12405323bd4...

Full session: https://gist.github.com/abtinf/7bdefff99aca89d1bc12405323bd4...

Generated with LM Studio on a Macbook Pro M2 Max

https://huggingface.co/hesamation/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Claude-4.6...

Re: Gemini 3.5 Flash

#65
Yikes. I think the concept of a 'flash' model is changing, no? Google used to market this as its lower-intelligence, faster, cheaper option. I appreciate that they are delivering on both of those, but personally I would appreciate if they could create an incremental knowledge improvement while holding price steady. Fortune 500 companies have to make their money I guess.

Re: Gemini 3.5 Flash

#66
post #51
post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you have your pricing wrong there, Gemini 3.5 flash is $1.50 input and $9 output.

Okay, it's kind of somewhere between haiku and sonnet level pricing, at somewhere between sonnet and opus level performance. Its a great option. I was hoping to see opus class intelligence at haiku level pricing out of google, and this is close to that!

Never mind, after looking at more benchmarks, seems closer to sonnet level intelligence at slightly lower cost. Speed is great for latency sensitive applications, but if this was 1/2 the cost it would have been priced to win.

If this is the big model release out of google, its a disappointent.

Re: Gemini 3.5 Flash

#67
post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don’t let that fool yourself. Google will have SOTA models as big as or even bigger than their competitors. They are just refining their current models while they finish training the next generation. They will all come out at about the same time. Anthropic, OpenAi, Google, xAI

Anthropic has been sitting on Mythos for a while now. I guess they don't feel pressured to fuck it ship it until anyone else gets a 10T to work.

I suspect that Mythos doesn't have a business model that works

Re: Gemini 3.5 Flash

#68

Oh boy. GDM is making (or has been backed into a corner into making) the bet that high throughput, low latency, low capability models are the path forward. That probably works for vibe coded apps by non-practitioners. I suspect that practitioners/professionals will wait longer for better results.

Where do you see that it’s low capability?

And Google is trying to make something affordable enough for a mass market, ad-supported audience.

They aren’t hyper focused on enterprise like Anthropic is. And that’s okay. There’s room for different players in different markets.

Re: Gemini 3.5 Flash

#70

Pricing is now live on ai.google.dev/pricing: Gemini 3.5 Flash: $0.75 input / $4.50 output per 1M tokens, 1M context window. The output price explicitly "includes thinking tokens" — which is why it's higher than a typical flash-class model. For comparison within the Gemini lineup: - Gemini 2.5 Flash: $0.30 / $2.50 - Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: $0.25 / $1.50 - Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: $2.00 / $12.00 So 3.5 Flash is ~2.5x mo…

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