# Flash 3.5 Changed, Downgraded?

**URL:** <https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/flash-3-5-changed-downgraded/175521>\
**Category:** Gemini API\
**Tags:** models\
**Created:** [July 20, 2026, 3:42pm UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/flash-3-5-changed-downgraded/175521 "2026-07-20T15:42:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Andborg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andborg](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Andborg)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 3:42pm UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/flash-3-5-changed-downgraded/175521/1 "2026-07-20T15:42:36Z")

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I’ve been testing a workflow over the past 2 weeks, across different providers, models. Flash 3.5 was the clear winner and very consistent.

Something changed over the weekend. No change to my prompts, code. Workflow has multiple agents.

Agent 1 that was completing in 3-6 seconds, now takes ~20-30+ seconds.

Agent 2 was completing in 20-40 seconds. Now takes minutes. This is also a grounding agent. The searches it does also exploded from ~10-20 to 30-40+.

Anyone else seeing a change? (changing thinking level does not change the outcomes, slow across the board).

Thoughts?

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**Author:** ![Mustan\_lokhand](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/mustan_lokhand/32/86726_2.png) [@Mustan\_lokhand](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Mustan_lokhand)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/flash-3-5-changed-downgraded/175521/2 "2026-07-20T18:33:46Z")

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Hi  
Can you share some mored details with me

1. Sample prompts , Sample outputs ?

You can DM me these

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**Author:** ![Andborg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andborg](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Andborg)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 2:52am UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/flash-3-5-changed-downgraded/175521/3 "2026-07-21T02:52:49Z")

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DM sent. Thank you kindly!

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**Author:** ![S\_Holmes](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/s_holmes/32/131062_2.png) [@S\_Holmes](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/S_Holmes)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 5:43am UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/flash-3-5-changed-downgraded/175521/4 "2026-07-21T05:43:01Z")

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I noticed it yesterday. I don’t mind that it started working very slowly, but it went into a “loop” and by the time I figured out what was happening, it had “eaten up” my entire weekly credit. Of course, nothing was done, and the task I gave was just a check and correction. There is a lot of discussion on the Internet about the fact that AI should only be paid for work done. Yes, it works much worse than before. I don’t believe that my weekly limit will be restored, although I’m sure that this problem has already been noticed by support.

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**Author:** ![S\_Holmes](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/s_holmes/32/131062_2.png) [@S\_Holmes](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/S_Holmes)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2026, 6:07am UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/flash-3-5-changed-downgraded/175521/5 "2026-07-22T06:07:35Z")

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Update : Yesterday I found this issue resolved , so thank you ! 🙂