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Gemini 3.5 Flash: You really need your own benchmarks. If you are translating hieroglyphics, use Gemini 3.5 Flash. If you are running a vending machine use Opus 4.8.

Google DeepMind silently released Gemini 3.5 Flash via API on May 19, 2026. The model ranks #11 on LM Arena with a score of 1479.46 and #4 on agentic benchmarks with a score of 94, highlighting the need for task-specific model selection over generic benchmarks.

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Gemini 3.5 Flash: You really need your own benchmarks. If you are translating hieroglyphics, use Gemini 3.5 Flash. If you are running a vending machine use Opus 4.8.
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Google DeepMindGemini 3.5 Flash Yes.

How we confirmed it

Released via the API

May 19, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC

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Benchmarks

LM Arena#11

gemini-3.5-flash · via LM Arena · 15,261 votes · captured Jul 3, 2026 · source 1479.46

Coding#29

Gemini 3.5 Flash · via BenchLM.ai · captured Jul 3, 2026 · source

76.7

Agentic#4

Gemini 3.5 Flash · via BenchLM.ai · captured Jul 3, 2026 · source

94

Reasoning#17

Gemini 3.5 Flash · via BenchLM.ai · captured Jul 3, 2026 · source

79.4

MultimodalGrounded#17

Gemini 3.5 Flash · via BenchLM.ai · captured Jul 3, 2026 · source

80

InstructionFollowing#39

Gemini 3.5 Flash · via BenchLM.ai · captured Jul 3, 2026 · source

78

GDP.pdf

Gemini 3.5 Flash · via Epoch AI · captured Jul 3, 2026 · source 14

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