Comment by do_anh_tu
2 hours ago
Man I love Gemini models but these kind of pricing increase is just insanse. I have a little product and I have to keep increasing the price and reduce the limits because of this non-sense, and they did not even let us use the old models in near future, so I forced to update to the new model with basically no to little improvement because I don't even need that much. Google if you can read this, it okay to release new models and change the price for them, but please please don't kill the old ones like gemini-2.5-flash-lite, because that all I ever need for my little apps with only few thousands of users.
Do not base products on models that are not open-weights. Doing it is like building a product on someone else's platform, you are entirely at their mercy, and even when they don't have any reason to hurt you, you are tiny enough that if any policy they want to enact hurts you as a side effect, no-one is going to care.
You don't have to self-host the open-weights model, you just need to be able to source it from multiple providers.
Using the closed vendor models maybe made sense when open-weight models lagged so far behind, but that time is now gone.
Why don't you just switch to cheaper models? I'm sure DeepSeek is probably enough for you and it's way cheaper. If you want, host your own (or have someone else host) open weight models, I use both embedded and cloud Gemma for some things.