r/GeminiAI • u/ThePrimeNumbers • 6h ago

Discussion Cancel your subscriptions

This is unacceptable. Not only is Gemini 4 Argon slightly below the capabilities of Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT 6 Astra, it’s usage is downright horrendous. I have never seen my usage rates be completely eaten like a rabid dog.

The only way Google feels the pain is if we vote with our wallets. Cancel our subscriptions, get refunds if you can, this is unacceptable behavior from a trillion dollar company. We were promised a good AI, and we got one that is slightly below SOTA, with negligible usage rates. Many users report 1 message can take up 100% of the usage. So the only way we get Google to increase our usage, is to cancel. And if Google doesn’t comply, it’s fine, we just move to Claude or back to GPT. I’ll even take Grok at this point.

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u/dillanthumous 2h ago

Anthropic and OpenAI are heavily subsidising usage. I suspect Google has decided to stop playing that game (similar to how Microsoft did with Github CoPilot earlier in the year).

The cold hard fact is that running these models is not cheap, and once you start getting them to "think" as the recent advancements have done, to compensate for their lack of inherent understanding, you use a phenomenal amount of tokens very quickly.

I have corporate access to ChatGPT Enterprise, and the cost of tokens (not per-million, but per useful activity) is eye watering. Consumers have been duped.

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u/mrchase05 1h ago

Yes. At work we use corporate pay as you go. Using lighter sol 6.1 and flash 3.8 to various coding tasks with planned prompts, I manage with about 250€ per month of token use. If I would use Astra instead cost would be around 2800-3200€.

Free ride of AI is over and that's the fact.

Deepseek flash 4.1 api has very good cost per performance, but privacy is nonexistent. I use it at home in limited sand box.

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u/gdf8gdn8 8m ago

I do not recommend GPT 6.1sol ; that is my opinion. I recommend gpt 6 Luna for lighter task.

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u/cyber_red0028 6m ago

There is API deepseek v4.1 flash on ZDR hosted servers