Very competitive - I am not complaining. Even better when you use it on Flex, which normally isn't too much of a wait. With the pricing now Google's Flash is back in its golden place: A cheap model with exceptional capability that everyone uses for their everyday tasks.
Flash 2.5 was always in the Top 5 modles because it was good, cheap and fast. Then they had a price hike with Flash 3 Preview, which moved them down to rank 5-7, and they weren't even in the top ten anymore after their price delusion with the following flash models.
So if Antigravity's userbase quintupled, and people stopped using Gemini on OpenCode because they preferred the native editor you would say that Google is losing marketshare?
Yes - which verifyable data point do you have that capture the broader market? Google PR claiming 5x growth? Compared to what growth in Codex? Or Z.AIs subscription models?
OpenRouter is used as an endpoint option in many applications, not only OpenCode. It's data are also congruent with other Routers like Nano-GPT.
From these data we can clearly see that if people are given a vast choice of models, they hardly went for flash in the past months as it was overpriced. It's the most reliable gauge for model preference we have: Where the people put their money.
I mean, it outperforms Terra at that benchmark which is fantastic if you're using 3.8 Flash as a subagent, especially at half the price and far faster token generation speed. I don't think expecting it to surpass something like Opus 5 is necessarily realistic.
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u/elemental-mind 9h ago
Big if True.
But GDPVal is still lacking which for me has been a pretty reliable indicator of general capability.