How Gemini 3.5 Flash Rivals Google’s Pro Models at a Fraction of the Cost

Google has launched Gemini 3.5 Flash directly into general availability, skipping the usual preview stage.

The model delivers more detailed structured outputs and supports function calling, code execution, and multi-agent workflows.

It performs well on reasoning tasks and is priced below Pro models, making it attractive for production use.

The tradeoff is lower reliability in unconventional reasoning cases, despite strong overall capability.