Gemini 3.5 Flash is fast and much stronger on agentic tasks, but costs over 5x more to run than Gemini 3 Flash, which changes the cost calculus for Flash-tier workloads.
Terms in this piece · Glossary
token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
eval — A repeatable test for AI quality — a set of tasks plus scoring — used the way software teams use test suites, because model output is too variable to judge by eyeballing.
