Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

Re:Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber by ActivePattern on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @01:45PM (#48995643)

You would be surprised how much of a difference the model makes for certain niche tasks.

For my use case, `gemini-3.1-flash-lite` is ~20% higher accuracy than the next best model of comparable cost (considering both proprietary and open-weight alternatives)

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Re:Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber by wasfgwp on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @02:31PM (#48996221)

Well it is a bit surprising that 3.1 flash-lite could be better than deepseek-v4-pro (cheaper output and way cheaper cache so might cost less for quite a few use cases).

They are not anywhere close according to pretty much every benchmark (even v4-flash is considerably ahead and its way cheaper than flash-lite). Maybe tuning prompts/tools/etc. might be useful?

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Re:Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber by swe_dima on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @03:42PM (#48997207)

Gemini flash lite family of models currently has the best ratio for price/speed/intelligence for understanding images, no real alternative AFAIK

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