Google Gemini 3.5 Flash beats last quarter's Pro flagship on agentic tasks
Read this because The signal is the price-performance inversion: a budget tier now out-runs last quarter's flagship on agentic throughput-per-dollar. If you sized infra around Pro-tier pricing, your unit economics just improved without a code change.
At I/O 2026, Gemini 3.5 Flash beats Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding+agent benchmarks at $1.50/$9 per 1M tokens. Terminal-Bench 76.2% vs 70.3%. 4x faster, half cost.