Also have to compare to the recent Grok 4.6 release, which appears to straight up be better AND cheaper
Hard to understand why anyone would choose 3.7 Flash under these conditions.. is Deepmind still a frontier lab?
At this point, I think they're mostly targeting Google One and Workspace subscribers, except doing worse compared to Microsoft because they don't have Microsoft's huge enterprise moat built from their DOS and Windows days.
Per-token cost isn't a great metric given that some use way more tokens than others.
It can regularly cost more than Fable, take longer, and deliver far far lower quality.
I'm much more interested how this compares to Luna - which on price is terribly - but at least on quality the benchmarks make this look competitive / usable.
If Google continues monthly Flash releases like Sundar said they would, and they continue to have this much of an improvement in cost/quality - then in a few months this could reasonably be very competitive with the best of the best.
It is not there yet, but at least it's super fast, I guess.
Less than half its price.
More than 50% discount.
1. How the new model performs against the other top models in the same category.
2. The pricing of the new model against the other top models in the same category.
spelk•50m ago
Introductory pricing until December 2026 implies no significant Gemini Flash developments until the next year.
randomblock1•26m ago
nateb2022•21m ago
re-thc•21m ago
Gemini 4 is apparently just around the corner so unless there's a 3 month delay... there's at least a new Flash update.