alt Hacker NewsGemini 3.8 Flash looks like its better than v7 Luna/Sol on DeepSWE v1.1 while at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens. Luna is much cheaper, but Flash has nearly Astra's performance for under the price of Sol ($2/$10).
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krat0sprakhar • yesterday at 8:57 PM
TBH: I really like how fast 3.8 Flash is... Once I have clear plan, I feel quite confident in delegating large parts of implementation to Flash and Luna
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oh_no • yesterday at 8:01 PM
look at token use, 3.8 flash is a huge token hog compared to openai models
Citizen_Lame • yesterday at 7:42 PM
Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.1 Pro are pure rubbish. Very little thinking, mediocre and usually incorrect results. They cannot be compared to frontier models.
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Flash thinks much more so it’s pretty much line with Sol for performance. That said I like flash coding style much more than OpenAi models.