Key Takeaways
Google has officially released Gemini 3.5 Flash. Despite being priced three times higher than the previous Gemini 1.5 Flash, this model still maintains a significant cost advantage compared to flagship models such as OpenAI's GPT 5.5 or Anthropic's Claude 4.7 Opus.
Performance Evaluation
Experts are currently evaluating this model on real-world benchmark suites (evals). Detailed results regarding response quality and processing speed are expected to be published later today.
The price hike suggests that Google may have focused on significantly improving reasoning capabilities or context windows, while still maintaining the 'Flash' positioning for high-speed tasks.