sucks we use 2.5 flash/lite in our company it handles millions of requests a day

theres nothing in its price range that provides the same all around perf

as noted, gemini 3 flash is expensive

really not liking google these days they are not hungry anymore

They appear to be trying lock-in, or some sort of way to make Gemini family the only logical choice on their cloud. They don't offer the most desired open weight models per-token, so we found another vendor and are less likely to use Google services going forward (for more reasons than this)