Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20

Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 demonstrates strong overall performance, positioning itself as a robust workhorse model. In terms of speed, it consistently performs among the faster models, typically ranking in the top 75th percentile across various benchmarks. Its pricing is competitive, generally offering cost-effective solutions and ranking in the 64th percentile for affordability. A standout feature is its exceptional reliability, achieving a perfect 100th percentile, indicating minimal technical failures and consistent response delivery. Across benchmarks, Gemini 2.5 Flash exhibits particular strengths in Ethics, achieving perfect accuracy and being noted as the most accurate model at its price point and speed. It also excels in Email Classification and General Knowledge, with 99.0% accuracy in both, showcasing its strong classification and broad knowledge capabilities. While its Coding performance is solid at 83.0% accuracy, it's not its absolute strongest area. Reasoning also shows good performance at 82.0% accuracy. The model's built-in "thinking" capabilities, configurable via "max tokens for reasoning," offer enhanced accuracy and nuanced context handling, though this comes with a higher cost for the ":thinking" variant. Overall, Gemini 2.5 Flash is a highly reliable and accurate model, particularly suited for tasks requiring strong ethical reasoning, classification, and general knowledge, with good performance in coding and complex reasoning.