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To be fair, Gemini 3.1 flash _lite_ supports structured output (guaranteed json), it’s super fast, runs circles around 2.5 flash and costs $0.25/$1.50. I use i
by OakNinja 4mo ago
To be fair, Gemini 3.1 flash _lite_ supports structured output (guaranteed json), it’s super fast, runs circles around 2.5 flash and costs $0.25/$1.50.
I use it _a lot_ and it’s very capable if you just plan correctly. I actually almost exclusively use 3.1 flash lite and 2.5 flash lite (even cheaper) and we have 99.5% accuracy in what we do.
That said, I think we’ll see the lite/flash models and the pro models will diverge more price wise. The pro models will become more and more expensive.
- drob518 4mo agoI think that’s true on divergence. Basically, the only most is living in the frontier, and even that is only temporary. At some point, the frontier advances such that 99% of tasks can use something short of a frontier model and only a very few tasks actually demand frontier performance.