Google Gemini 3.5 Flash is a multimodal model supporting text, image, file, audio, and video input, making it one of the broadest modality offerings in the current landscape. Its coding index of 47.1 is excellent, and tool use and function calling are both supported. The intelligence index of 43.3 places it in the very strong tier, and the 1M token context window is a significant advantage for long-document and large-codebase workflows.

For businesses, Gemini 3.5 Flash is well suited to coding assistance, multimodal content processing, and workflows that require audio or video understanding alongside text. Its instruction following score (ifbench 0.47) is the weakest dimension and may affect reliability in precise content generation tasks. Long-context reasoning (lcr 0.53) is adequate but not exceptional.

At $1.50 input and $9.00 output per million tokens, the output pricing is on the higher side relative to competitors at a similar intelligence level. Teams that specifically need audio and video input alongside strong coding capability will find it a compelling choice; those focused on text-only or cost-sensitive workloads may prefer alternatives with better price-performance ratios.

Assessed June 6, 2026

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