Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite hits 89% vs GPT-5.6's 93% at 1/10 the cost
mrdbourke · x · 2026-08-19
In a custom eval task, @mrdbourke found gemini-3.5-flash-lite scored 89% versus GPT-5.6 Sol (max) at 93% — a small gap despite being 10x cheaper and 20x faster. He suggests trying Optima to run the comparison on your own custom evals.
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