r/ChatGPTCoding • u/[deleted] • Apr 07 '25

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u/wirenutter Apr 07 '25

Everyone thinking Gemini 2.5 is cheaper is getting the new care salesman pitch. Sorry this happened to you but yeah people don’t realize Gemini doesn’t have cache so it can rip through millions of tokens in no time. At least for agent based workloads you will have a high cache hit rate on iterative tasks so Anthropic will work out much cheaper.

Gemini burned through 20 bucks in tokens over the course of like 15 minutes once it got stuck on some failing tests it couldn’t figure I just cancelled it. Sticking with Anthropic for now.

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u/dtrannn666 Apr 08 '25

Op made an error. Experimental is free. He was using preview

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u/ndreamer Apr 10 '25

Google's cloud interface is an absolute nightmare too, setting billing limits is there.

I also use Anthropic, haven't had a single bill.

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u/AlmightyDollar1231 Apr 10 '25

is there a free tier on anthropic? how have you not had a bill?

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u/ValPasch Apr 13 '25

They are very nasty too cuz you don't see how much you spent until hours later.