Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 04-17

Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 04-17 demonstrates strong overall performance, positioning itself as a robust workhorse model. It performs among the fastest models, ranking in the 68th percentile for speed, and offers competitive pricing, placing in the 60th percentile. Notably, its reliability is exceptional, achieving a perfect 100th percentile, indicating consistent and dependable operation with minimal technical failures. Across benchmark categories, Gemini 2.5 Flash exhibits particular strengths in classification and knowledge-based tasks. It achieved perfect accuracy in Email Classification, making it the most accurate model at its price point and among models of comparable speed. Its General Knowledge and Ethics performance were also very strong, with 99.3% and 99.0% accuracy respectively. While its Reasoning and Coding (Baseline) accuracy were solid at 82.0% and 83.0%, these benchmarks also represented its higher cost and duration metrics. The model's built-in "thinking" capabilities, though incurring higher costs, are designed to enhance accuracy and contextual understanding, which likely contributes to its strong performance in complex reasoning tasks.