> 3.7 Flash is available through the end of the year at an introductory price of $0.75/1M input tokens and $3.75/1M output tokens.

> Introductory pricing expires on December 31, 2026. Starting January 1, 2027, $1.50/1M input tokens and $7.50/1M output tokens will apply.

Clearly this model will be irrelevant by Jan. 2027, why would Google even bother to say this?

	▲	urams 27 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's basically a "if we really have to support this for a long time, we want to be compensated for that" pricing strategy. It's about long term maintenance cost being greater _because_ it will be irrelevant.
	▲	kromokromo 27 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Its probably just a corporate symptom, weird stuff like this happens in messy large orgs.
	▲	quaintdev 28 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Maybe they know something we don't. What if all frontier lab do this? Maybe this is actual cost of running these llm.