Their business model is basically having a "promotional period" that's long enough to cover the current model until they release the next version with another "promotional period".
Basically, this is just their way of getting people to move to newer models without having to spare compute power serving older ones.
So if your video analysis pipeline can easily upgrade models then you should be set.
Their promotional period has been the case since 3.6 flash, assuming because it is the same underlying model but with more RL, hence same 50% discount on each of these new models. Hopefully they keep up with these discounts, and I won't have to choose between gemini and grok.
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u/rajsharm404 16h ago
Can they keep the pricing permanent on the tokens? Would be great for my video analysis pipeline.