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It's trivial to get better score than GPT-4 with 1% of the cost by using my propertiary routing algorithm that routes all requests to Gemini 2.5 Flash. It's cal

It's trivial to get better score than GPT-4 with 1% of the cost by using my propertiary routing algorithm that routes all requests to Gemini 2.5 Flash. It's called GASP (Gemini Always, Save Pennies)

nutjob2 1y ago
Does anyone working in an individual capacity actually end up paying for Gemini (Flash or Pro)? Or does Google boil you like a frog and you end up subscribing?
- aspect8445 1y ago
  I've used Gemini in a lot of personal projects. At this point I've probably made tens of thousands of requests, sometimes exceeding 1k per week. So far, I haven't had to pay a dime!
  - worm00111 1y ago
    How come you don't need to pay? Do you get it for free somehow?
    - KETHERCORTEX 1y ago
      There's free tier for API.
      - drittich 1y ago
        "When you use Unpaid Services, including, for example, Google AI Studio and the unpaid quota on Gemini API, Google uses the content you submit to the Services and any generated responses to provide, improve, and develop Google products and services and machine learning technologies, including Google's enterprise features, products, and services, consistent with our Privacy Policy. To help with quality and improve our products, human reviewers may read, annotate, and process your API input and output. Google takes steps to protect your privacy as part of this process. This includes disconnecting this data from your Google Account, API key, and Cloud project before reviewers see or annotate it. Do not submit sensitive, confidential, or personal information to the Unpaid Services." Reference: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms
- dcre 1y ago
  I've paid a few dollars a month for my API usage for about 6 months.
- baq 1y ago
  If I actually had time to work on my hobby projects Gemini pro would be the first thing I’d spend money on. As is, it’s amazing how much progress you can squeeze out of those 5 chats every 24h; I can get a couple hours of before-times hacking done in 15 minutes, which is incidentally when free usage gets throttled and my free time runs out.
- ivape 1y ago
  You get 1500 prompts on AIStudio across a few Gemini flash models. I think I saw 250 or 500 for 2.5. It’s basically free and beats the consumer rate limits of big apps (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, meta). I wonder when they’ll cut this off.

It's trivial to get better score than GPT-4 with 1% of the cost by using my propertiary routing algorithm that routes all requests to Gemini 2.5 Flash. It's called GASP (Gemini Always, Save Pennies)

nutjob2 1y ago

Does anyone working in an individual capacity actually end up paying for Gemini (Flash or Pro)? Or does Google boil you like a frog and you end up subscribing?

aspect8445 1y ago
I've used Gemini in a lot of personal projects. At this point I've probably made tens of thousands of requests, sometimes exceeding 1k per week. So far, I haven't had to pay a dime!
- worm00111 1y ago
  How come you don't need to pay? Do you get it for free somehow?
  - KETHERCORTEX 1y ago
    There's free tier for API.
    - drittich 1y ago
      "When you use Unpaid Services, including, for example, Google AI Studio and the unpaid quota on Gemini API, Google uses the content you submit to the Services and any generated responses to provide, improve, and develop Google products and services and machine learning technologies, including Google's enterprise features, products, and services, consistent with our Privacy Policy. To help with quality and improve our products, human reviewers may read, annotate, and process your API input and output. Google takes steps to protect your privacy as part of this process. This includes disconnecting this data from your Google Account, API key, and Cloud project before reviewers see or annotate it. Do not submit sensitive, confidential, or personal information to the Unpaid Services." Reference: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms
dcre 1y ago
I've paid a few dollars a month for my API usage for about 6 months.
baq 1y ago
If I actually had time to work on my hobby projects Gemini pro would be the first thing I’d spend money on. As is, it’s amazing how much progress you can squeeze out of those 5 chats every 24h; I can get a couple hours of before-times hacking done in 15 minutes, which is incidentally when free usage gets throttled and my free time runs out.
ivape 1y ago
You get 1500 prompts on AIStudio across a few Gemini flash models. I think I saw 250 or 500 for 2.5. It’s basically free and beats the consumer rate limits of big apps (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, meta). I wonder when they’ll cut this off.