I find that Gemini flash 2.5 performs about as well as Claude sonnet for non coding agentic flows except it’s actually fast enough

some of the tool calling is better, its better at knowing how to use a sequence of tools in a real world scenario. things like glm 5.2 will spam tool calls like 100 times. gemini model will just use the tools as you would expect

im always convinced people with takes on the open source models have never actually used them in a production agentic system