Gemini Flash
One kind of Gemini. Also: Pro.
8 creators use or recommend it
▲ 4 active in the last 90 days
What else do they all swear by?
Riley Brown, Claire Vo and Liam Ottley use or recommend Gemini Flash. See what else they have in common.
See what they all swear by Or pick your own peopleRecently discussed in
How Gemini Flash compares
6 creators weighed in
Behind Opus 5 on DeepSeek benchmark; competitive with models costing several times more
Z
G
+1
5 creators
Z
G
+1
5 creators
Behind Opus 5 on DeepSeek benchmark; competitive with models costing several times more
G
+1
G
+1
"Should I be using Gemini 2.5 Flash? You're going to take a quality hit."
Mentioned as a cheaper alternative to Opus with a quality trade-off in factory model routing
"Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash — the company's third flash release in six weeks. It scored 73.7% on DeepSeek, just behind Opus 5 and competitive with models that cost several times more. Very quick, very cheap, and very good at coding."
Behind Opus 5 on DeepSeek benchmark; competitive with models costing several times more
"Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash and a cybersecurity focused version. It scored 73.7% on DeepSWE, just behind Opus 5 and competitive with models that cost several times more. A great result for a model generating roughly 300 tokens per s..."
Competitive with models that cost several times more; just behind Opus 5 on DeepSWE
"My understanding is Grokbot uses Gemini Flash, Grok 4.6, and some Opus, behind a router."
Used alongside Grok 4.6 and Claude Opus in Grokbot's ensemble
"Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash just took the top spot on the AI analyst agent benchmark, the gold standard for measuring how well AI models handle complex real-world data analysis tasks. Gemini 3.7 Flash delivered the highest overall accuracy..."
Beats Claude Opus 5 at 54% and Fable 5 at 49% on the AA analyst agent benchmark
On other platforms (including Codex directly), videos get cut into frames and transcripts extracted — slower and more expensive than Gemini's native approach
1 creator
1 creator
On other platforms (including Codex directly), videos get cut into frames and transcripts extracted — slower and more expensive than Gemini's native approach
"Google actually has a native video uploading skill, meaning you can upload it like an image. It's really fast to analyze it. Gemini analyzed the full 53-second video. You can very quickly analyze videos with Google Gemini. It automatical..."
On other platforms (including Codex directly), videos get cut into frames and transcripts extracted — slower and more expensive than Gemini's native approach
"It just does it through Gemini Flash. Gemini's voice mode I just didn't find to be smart enough."
Voice mode not as good as Grok
Which version
Each new Flash replaces the last.
12 creators didn't say which. Their quotes are labeled with when they said it, so you can tell which was out at the time.
What creators say
"I use a really cheap model — I use Gemini Flash to then take those clusters and categorize them."
More from Claire Vo →
"Google actually has a native video uploading skill, meaning you can upload it like an image. It's really fast to analyze it. Gemini analyzed the full 53-second video. You can very quickly analyze videos with Google Gemini. It automatically uses th..."
More from Riley Brown →+1 more mention from Riley
"Gemini officially released 3.7 Flash. Apparently, this is a very fast model, and it's brand new. Since it's only a mid model and it's not that good..."
"You just need the API to something like Gemini and then work on your own setup for your own retrieval, your own tool calls, etc. We do use it in making our Flash models from our larger scale Pro model — that's partly why our Flash models in Gemini..."
More from Jeff Dean →"I started just sort of poking around. I was like, oh, Gemini Flash, this is really fun for like high batch low intelligence things. Like you could do 30,000 queries in two hours and it cost you 20 bucks or something. That's amazing."
More from Joe Weisenthal →"It just does it through Gemini Flash. Gemini's voice mode I just didn't find to be smart enough."
More from Noah Brier →
"We have the Google Gemini 2.5 flash. Again, it's got the wrong model here, so we'll just change it over to the one we want"
More from Liam Ottley →"for example we utilize a lot of Gemini flash which is like a great model at like code search at like design"
More from Amjad Masad →"We got like to 5% performance with Gemini 1.5 flash this was a while ago and then when we added on the the reasoning strategies we went from 5% to 95%"
More from Ian Fischer →
"The American frontier labs that were all sort of sticking their toes in the pond as it were for videogen, like Sora from OpenAI or Gemini Omni Flash from Google, but it never quite materialized to the length of Sea Dance 2.5 plus."
More from Peter Diamandis →+2 more mentions from Peter
"Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash just took the top spot on the AI analyst agent benchmark, the gold standard for measuring how well AI models handle compl..."
"They just launched Gemini 3.5 Flash. It's the new default for Gemini app and AI search mode."
"The new Gemini 2.5 Flash — bunch of great reviews, great benchmarks on things — but like they can't just stuff that in Google Search on day one. Like they have to actually scale it up."
More from John Coogan →+4 more mentions from John
"Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash — the company's third flash release in six weeks. It scored 73.7% on DeepSeek, just behind Opus 5 and competitive ..."
"Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash and a cybersecurity focused version. It scored 73.7% on DeepSWE, just behind Opus 5 and competitive with models th..."
"My understanding is Grokbot uses Gemini Flash, Grok 4.6, and some Opus, behind a router."
More from Gavin Baker →
"The Gemini models the way they are used now is for organizing data — you can track any type of modality of data — and Flash is a perfectly decent model but it's not as good as the Chinese models, especially the new GLM Flash that's just come out, ..."
More from Emad Mostaque →"They also released Gemini Omni Flash — it's a video model that allows also editing. It's also very good but in our experiments doesn't quite reach the quality of Kling 2."
More from Nicolai Klemke →+1 more mention from Nicolai
"They also released Gemini Omni Flash — it's a video model that allows editing as well. It's very good but in our experiments doesn't quite reach th..."
"It's easy to cut costs. I can tell you to go use Gemini Flash, and that's going to be way more efficient in terms of token spend."
More from Anastasios Angelopoulos →
"That's driven by their workhorse Flash model, which makes sense. They've been focused on very efficient token generation because they vend them into so many Google systems."
More from Jordi Hays →"Can we get this job done with a Gemini Flash or can we get the job done with a Muse Spark? There's other models that can be a good fit there."
More from Vas →
"Gemini 2.5 Flash is a great model. Although the new Sonic just came out and that's supposed to be fantastic."
More from Kevin Rose →
"Gemini Flash 3.5 looks pretty neat according to Tennibbrris and extremely fast, but still largely the sort of incremental progress we've come to expect from Google."
More from TBPN →+1 more mention from TBPN
"Introducing Gemini 3.1 Flash. A huge step forward on the boundary of intelligence, beating 2.5 Flash on many tasks."
"You guys have incredible flash models that are like finding that they're 95% as good as the Frontier and at like one-tenth the price"
More from Y Combinator →"Should I be using Gemini 2.5 Flash? You're going to take a quality hit."
Creators also endorse
Sponsored mentions
These creators mentioned this product during a paid promotion
"Gemini 3.5 Flash is a new model, and based on these benchmarks, it looks pretty good. It's outperforming Gemini 3.1 Pro on a lot of things. In some cases, it actually even outperforms GPT 5.5. But, the catch is, of course, that the pricing has als..."
Keep exploring
About this data
- ✓45,000+ mentions extracted from real podcast transcripts
- ✓Every quote links to the source episode
- ✓Sponsored mentions are always labeled
- ✓Critical takes are shown, never filtered out