At I/O 2026 Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, which it says outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro across almost all benchmarks while running four times faster than other frontier models. It's now the model powering the agentic features across Google's dev stack.

The headline for indie builders: frontier-class quality at Flash pricing and latency. Workloads you previously routed to a Pro-tier model just to get accuracy can likely move down a tier — that's real money at scale.

Source: blog.google