Our community has been testing Gemini 2.5 Pro extensively.
We're sharing their unfiltered feedback: 🧵
(hint: this might dethrone 3.7 Sonnet)
2
"It 98% one-shot my flappy bird test. Only thing that didn't work was restarting the game after you failed."
3
"2.5 pro way better than 3.5 imo. It really can hold on to details better than 3.5 or 3.7 in my opinion."
4
"2.5 pro also gives more detailed/direct actions. all around best model imo."
5
"I vastly think 2.5 better than 3.7 sonnet its so good not even 3.7 amazed that much on release"
6
"I officially think 2.5 gemini is best"
7
"the code quality increase is insane"
8
"it doesn't feel clueless like previous gemini models"
9
"it can use tools and mcp servers quite well"
10
"feeling like really good. I'm really impressed"
11
"gemini 2.0 is to gemini 2.5 what claude haiku is to claude sonnet 3.5 - night and day"
12
Despite rave reviews, one consistent complaint: rate limits. Users report "Provider returned error" burning into their retinas with the 5 RPM cap. Many switch between providers just to keep working with it. Classic victim of its own success.