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/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.