alt Hacker News> * For 3.6 and 3.7 Flash, introductory price expires on December 31, 2026. Starting January 1, 2027, $1.50/1M input tokens and $7.50/1M output tokens will apply.
this is hilarious. it is not 2025 any more, by Jan 2027 there will be at least 3 newer generation of models (from other provider) released already. nobody would use flash 3.7 at that time.
sure we used to cling to gemini models in the past, demanding 2.5 models to continue to serve, but since google betrayed us with those price hike, people already spent their time making their production pipeline less dependent on google since then.
heck, even now I'm not sure I even care if they cut the pricing even lower. there are too many models with cheaper price and similar performance now.
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Maybe the business model is to break even on bleeding edge models while making money on the long tail of usage once systems are tuned for a specific model and running in production.
This is added specifically so you migrate out of those as fast as next models will be available.
Isn't it a good thing to know about price hikes in advance? If I were building a product around it, I would certainly care.
Nobody except corporations who built workflows on top of it and don't care about the price because the developer already moved on and nobody wants to touch it.
What? Jan 2027 is just about four months away. People surely still use models from four months ago today.
I think this is a play to get around EU regulation about false sales.
> introductory price
They should call it 'face saving pricing after we realized just how terribly did we mis-price the flash 3.5'
> since google betrayed us with those price hike, people already spent their time making their production pipeline less dependent on google since then.
This is my first hand experience. I spent at least $3000 on gemini-3-flash-preview. And exactly $0 total on (3.5+3.6+3.7)