Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20

Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 demonstrates strong performance as a state-of-the-art workhorse model, particularly excelling in advanced reasoning, coding, mathematics, and scientific tasks. It consistently performs among the fastest models, ranking in the 82nd percentile across benchmarks, and offers competitive pricing, typically falling within the 69th percentile. A standout feature is its exceptional reliability, achieving a 100% success rate across all benchmarks, indicating consistent and usable responses. In specific benchmark categories, Gemini 2.5 Flash achieved perfect accuracy in Ethics, notably being the most accurate model at its price point and among models of comparable speed. It also showed high accuracy in Email Classification (99.0%), proving to be the most accurate among models of similar speed. While its General Knowledge accuracy was strong at 99.0%, its Coding performance, at 83.0% accuracy, was more moderate compared to other categories. The model's configurable "thinking" capability, with distinct pricing for its "thinking" variant, allows for nuanced context handling and greater accuracy, though this comes at a higher cost. Its primary strength lies in its reliability and ethical reasoning, coupled with competitive speed and cost-effectiveness for many tasks.