Comment by simonw
15 days ago
They're doubling the price on December 1st: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing#gemini-4-argon
$2/million input and $10/million output today. $4/$20 after December 1st.
15 days ago
They're doubling the price on December 1st: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing#gemini-4-argon
$2/million input and $10/million output today. $4/$20 after December 1st.
With the pace they're delivering models, there's gonna be 1-2 new Gemini 4 versions by December 1st, presumably with their own introductory price windows. We just got Gemini 3.8 on 2 September and Gemini 3.7 on 13 August.
This reminds me of telephone commercials that ran back around 1987, saying they were offering long distance calls for 10 cents a minute (a pretty good price back then) and -- this was emphasized, a huge selling point -- they guaranteed your rate would never go up. In retrospect, all the lols :-)
I wonder if that’s more to price in the cost of keeping old models around on expensive inference hardware. It’s not like old models get cheaper to run, and a more heterogeneous fleet is less efficient to manage.
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Their last non-flash frontier release was 3.1 Pro back in February. Two new frontier releases at that pace would be Feb 2028.
December 1st is just ~6 weeks away. There's no way Google puts out even 1 more Gemini 4 version before then, let alone more than 1.
No they've been releasing models super rapid fire. Other companies too. 6.1 sol was barely a week after 6.0 sol
Don’t underestimate the power of exponential growth
You're conflating Gemini Flash with Gemini Pro.
Opus 5.5 is also priced at $4/$20, but are they on the same level?
At that price I think you'd pick Opus 5.5.
It's perhaps a face saving thing to pretend you'll charge the same. Let's see if it actually happens.
>$4/$20
Is Elon Musk doing their pricing?
That is the standard pricing for Opus-class models these days.
Blaze it, Robot!
4/20. It is to Musk what 67 is to children.
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There is no such thing as "standard pricing" for products with different performance profiles, architectures, inference costs and infrastructure stack
It is price fixing, nothing else
GLM 5.3 is roughly Opus class and is much, much cheaper
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