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Google's developer API and SDK for accessing its Gemini family of AI models, including text, audio, and multimodal capabilities.
Google prices Gemini 4 Argon at $2 input and $10 output per 1M tokens through Nov 30, then $4 and $20. Budgets built on the launch rates fall short by half from December 1, on figures a dev.to guide takes from Google's pricing page.
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Until November 30, Google's Gemini 4 Argon bills input at $2 per million tokens and output at $10 per million, then $4 and $20. Thinking tokens bill at the output rate, according to a dev.to walkthrough of Google's pricing page.
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Google priced Nano Banana 2.1 at half Nano Banana 2's per-image rate, $0.0336 for a 1K image, while tripling what it charges for input tokens. Reference-heavy edits can cost more after switching, and no published benchmark backs the quality claims.
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Google shuts off Nano Banana 2 on the Gemini API on October 29; its replacement, Nano Banana 2.1, lists at about half the price per image. Teams budgeting 4K should plan on the higher of two token counts in Google's own docs until an invoice settles it.
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The Wall Street Journal says Google engineers picked the unreleased Flash model over an Anthropic Opus inside Jetski, a result with real budget implications for agent fleets and no published prompts, judges or Opus version.
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Apple's Kids Category rule and COPPA's definition of a child's voice both point a preschool voice product at local processing, and Whisper's error on children's speech falls by nearly a factor of three from tiny to large-v3.
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Google positions one live model for high-volume conversation and the other for reasoning that continues while the user is still talking. The product page describes both without performance measurements, token costs or latency figures.
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Google has put video continuation in front of paying Gemini subscribers with a 10-second context window and a 40-second ceiling, which is enough for a short spot but only if you understand what the model can still see by the fourth segment.
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Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash generates video with audio and accepts revisions as plain sentences, with the edit chain held server-side by interaction id. The ceiling on a finished clip is 40 seconds, and no eval came with it.
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Omni 1.1 Flash pushes generated sequences to 40 seconds in 10-second increments and adds a cheap 360p draft tier, which turns a demo into something a content team can schedule. The 4K export rate is still unpublished.
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Google put the same 3.7 Flash behind its API, Vertex, Gemini Enterprise and AI Mode in Search on August 13. The payoff is fewer evaluations to run, not a new capability tier.
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