Google's cheapest new model doubles in price on 1 January.
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash on 2 September, three weeks after the model it replaces. It keeps the old rate of 75 cents per million input tokens and a million-token context. That rate is an introductory offer, and on 1 January input jumps to 1.50 dollars.
Why it mattersCheap models run most of the AI features you touch daily, so their price sets your bill. Anything you build on this rate has to survive twice the cost in four months.
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