Same impression here. If this is Google's strategy we'll have to migrate to Luna, because costs are already high for our workload on 3.8 Flash (which in itself was already a 40% increase compared to 3.7 flash due to being more verbose and thinking more) and this now doubles cost once again.

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ComputerGuru a day ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, and they rug-pulled 3.7 very quickly, silently redirecting to 3.8 Flash. Raised our prices and broke some workflows.

	▲	alexgoodhart a day ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah they fuckin did

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amarcheschi a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Isn't something open weight cheaper (and probably better as well)?

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ComputerGuru a day ago | parent [-]

Depends on your needs. Gemini Flash has best bang for your buck on visual tasks and best multilingual support/intelligence for non-Western/non-East-Asian languages; better than paid or OSS alternatives.

	▲	amarcheschi a day ago \| parent [-]
		Yes I gave for granted textual tasks but they're not the only ones. If I remember correctly, mistral large should be good as well on image tasks while being cheap(er). I never had to do anything with less common languages tho

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NooneAtAll5 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

why not to migrate to deepseek instead?