Google suddenly increased the cost of Gemini 1.5 Flash by 98% and claimed that the previous one was «a typo»

Google has quietly doubled the price of using the API of its new Gemini 1.5 Flash model.

Previously, a million tokens per withdrawal cost 53 cents and now costs $1.05.

Google raised the price of Gemini 1.5 Flash output by 98% without telling anyone.

This just a week after announcing the model.

Output goes from 0.53/1M to 1.05/1M.

How can we trust an API that drastically increases its price in a week? lol pic.twitter.com/NiIqqx6zmi

— 𝑨𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑮𝒖𝒚 (@artificialguybr) May 29, 2024

Interestingly, Google AI product leader Logan Kilpatrick reacted to the outrage on Twitter, stating the previous cost was just… «a typo».

Gemini 1.5 Flash — is a small multimodal (capable of analyzing text, video, audio, and images) language model with a context window of 2 million tokens that Google introduced on May 14. At the time, Josh Woodward, vice president of Google Labs, noted that developers should use Gemini 1.5 Flash if they want to perform tasks quickly where low latency matters (on the other hand, Gemini 1.5 Pro is focused on «more general or complex, often multistep tasks for» reasons)

Yesterday, Google announced, which increases the speed limit for Gemini 1.5 Flash up to 1000 requests per minute and cancels the request limit per day.