Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash

Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash, released on February 5, 2025, demonstrates strong overall performance, particularly excelling in speed and reliability. It consistently ranks among the fastest models, achieving the 84th percentile across six benchmarks, and offers competitive pricing, placing in the 76th percentile. Notably, its reliability is exceptional, boasting a 100% success rate across all benchmarks, indicating minimal technical failures. In terms of specific capabilities, Gemini 2.0 Flash shows remarkable strength in knowledge-based tasks and ethical reasoning, achieving perfect 100% accuracy in both the General Knowledge and Ethics benchmarks. It also performs very well in Reasoning and Email Classification, with 80% and 98% accuracy respectively. While its Coding (81% accuracy) and Instruction Following (38.4% accuracy) benchmarks are not as high, the model's overall speed and cost-effectiveness across these tasks remain competitive. Its enhanced multimodal understanding, coding capabilities, complex instruction following, and function calling contribute to robust agentic experiences.