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So 2.5x the speed at 6x the price [1]. Quite a premium for speed. Especially when Gemini 3 Pro is 1.8x the tokens/sec speed (of regular-speed Opus 4.6) at 0.45

by zhyder 8mo ago

So 2.5x the speed at 6x the price [1]. Quite a premium for speed. Especially when Gemini 3 Pro is 1.8x the tokens/sec speed (of regular-speed Opus 4.6) at 0.45x the price [2]. Though it's worse at coding, and Gemini CLI doesn't have the agentic strength of Claude Code, yet. [1] - https://x.com/claudeai/status/2020207322124132504 https://x.com/claudeai/status/2020207322124132504 [2] - https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models

sebmellen 8mo ago
Gemini is pretty good for frontend tasks
gpm 8mo ago
6x price/token, so 15x price/second, and only at the API pricing level, not the far cheaper (per token) subscription pricing. Definitely an interesting way to encourage whales to spend a lot of money quickly.
- atonse 8mo ago
  I didn’t quite understand why they were randomly giving people $50 in credits. But I think this is why?
  - stingraycharles 8mo ago
    no, it’s for Max subscribers to enable “use API when running out of session limit”. the assumption (probably) being that many will forget to turn it off, and they’ll earn it back that way.
    - Loic 8mo ago
      This was my first thought, but by default, you have no automatic reload of your prepaid account. Which I think is for once user friendly. They could have applied a dark pattern here.
deaux 8mo ago
> Though it's worse at coding, and Gemini CLI doesn't have the agentic strength of Claude Code, yet. You can use OpenCode instead of Gemini CLI.
- picklepixel 8mo ago
  or you can proxy Gemini through Claude Code
  - izmax5 8mo ago
    That sounds pretty nice. How are you achieving that?
    - malnourish 8mo ago
      Litellm makes it easy