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It's such a good model for the price, for a lot of tasks it outperforms gpt5 at 3x the speed and 1/5 the price. The price jump from 2.5->3->3.5 has been so high.

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i have found google models outperforming other models in actual agentic workflows

I find that Gemini flash 2.5 performs about as well as Claude sonnet for non coding agentic flows except it’s actually fast enough

some of the tool calling is better, its better at knowing how to use a sequence of tools in a real world scenario. things like glm 5.2 will spam tool calls like 100 times. gemini model will just use the tools as you would expect

im always convinced people with takes on the open source models have never actually used them in a production agentic system

Qwen 35ba3b is ok, but it uses like 3x as many tokens as gemini 2.5 flash so you end up paying about the same to do an agentic run with gemini 2.5 flash and qwen 35ba3b.

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