Expect all models to increase in price 3x with new releases. They're easing us into the margins they're targeting.

Flash 3 wasnt appropriately priced, it was priced to get you used to a certain level of spending, then they'll crank it up and get you used to the next level of spending.

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hijodelsol 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I am aware that it was likely subsidized or at least did not have appropriate margins. But over time, that same capability should become profitable if parameter efficiency and chips improve. For many customer facing use cases outside of coding assistants, optimizing for speed, basic logic/maths and conversational texts matters much more than being able to use 40 tools simultaneously. I would have hoped that Google would recognize this and keep a dual line up, where Pro and Flash are clearly intended for different market segments. But it seems, it's all in on coding assistants and screw the other use cases..

Now, we might need to change to DeepSeek 4 Flash if Google deprecates 3 Flash.

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parliament32 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Has your AWS bill gone down in the last decade? Despite "efficiency" and chip improvements?

Why would you expect text-generator-as-a-service to be any different?

	▲	hijodelsol 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		When using Hetzner, DigitalOcean or any other VPS service together with Cloudflare, I can handle millions of page views for 5-50$ a month at pricing that has stayed nominally the same for a long time and due to inflation and performance gains of the underlying chips has basically become cheaper.

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dist-epoch 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Is Gemma 4 31B not enough for your simple tasks?