Gemini 3.5 Flash ranks #1 on Automation Bench (from Zapier), beating every other frontier model at a much lower cost
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Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash model ranks first on Zapier's Automation Bench, outperforming other frontier models at a significantly lower cost.
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