Gemini 3.5 Flash is just... fine

Gemini 3.5 Flash is Google's new model promising frontier performance at 4x the speed and half the cost. We break down the benchmarks, compare it against GPT-5.5, Opus 4.7, and Kimi K2.6, and dig into the real-world pricing data from Artificial Analysis that tells a very different story. We also look at Antigravity 2.0, Google's new standalone agent app replacing the IDE, and the Antigravity CLI that's killing off the open-source Gemini CLI on June 18th. 🔗 Relevant Links https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/ ❤️ More about us Radically better observability stack: https://betterstack.com/ Written tutorials: https://betterstack.com/community/ Example projects: https://github.com/BetterStackHQ 📱 Socials Twitter: https://twitter.com/betterstackhq Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterstackhq/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@betterstack LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/betterstack 📌 Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 0:30 - Headline stats 0:42 - Google's benchmarks 1:11 - Third-party benchmarks 1:48 - Speed performance 2:16 - The cost problem 3:06 - Token hungry 3:20 - Verdict on Flash 3:39 - Antigravity 2.0 4:23 - Testing Antigravity 5:39 - Antigravity CLI kills Gemini CLI 6:02 - Final thoughts