Gemini 3.5 Flash
Announced May 19, 2026
Agents built to take action
What could it do?
Google released Flash as the first model in the Gemini 3.5 family.
What changed?
Focused on coding and sustained agent workflows.
Brought more capable agents to consumer and developer products.
Where it fell short
A family announcement does not mean all future variants were available.
Release facts were checked against the sources below. Performance claims belong to the developers; we have not independently tested these models.
Developer announcement or release logBenchmark results
A benchmark estimate, not a percentage or capability multiplier. Reasoning settings are not specified in this source table. Historical estimates can change in later snapshots.
Epoch AI methodology ↗Download the source snapshotChecked Oct 7, 2026 · CC BY 4.0One explicitly named variant per release. Scores come from the same Overall snapshot; preliminary entries and reported intervals are preserved. These are current ratings of earlier variants, not their launch day ratings.
Source: Text Arena ↗Download selected resultsChecked Oct 8, 2026