Users say Gemini 3.6 Flash is faster, but not smarter than 3.5 Flash
hero88645 · reddit · 2026-07-22
- A Reddit post argues that Gemini 3.6 Flash feels like a mostly cosmetic upgrade over 3.5 Flash: the Artificial Analysis score stays at 50, while the main changes are lower latency and slightly lower pricing.
- The author says it is still attractive for heavy agent workloads, but for ordinary chat or coding it does not feel meaningfully smarter.
- The post also compares Google’s pricing with DeepSeek V4 Flash, which the author cites as dramatically cheaper for a fast worker model.
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