the problem the price point is increasing sharply every time.

gemini 2 flash lite was $0.3 per 1Mtok output, gemini 2.5 flash lite is $0.4 per 1Mtok output, guess the pricing for gemini 3 flash lite now.

yes you guess it right, it is $1.5 per 1Mtok output. you can easily guest that because google did the same thing before: gemini 2 flash was $0.4, then 2.5 flash it jumps to $2.5.

and that is only the base price, in reality newer models are al thinking models, so it costs even more tokens for the sample task.

at some point it is stopped being viable to use gemini api for anything.

and they don't even keep the old models for long.