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by sepositus 410 days ago
So I have yet to use any tool that needs an API key because I am concerned about costs. Does anyone have any idea what the daily usage of something like this would cost?
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Gemini has a very generous Free Tier for their API (including 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro): https://aistudio.google.com/app/apikey
Keep in mind that using the free tier models means Google will keep what you send and use it for training.

In bold in their terms is: "Do not submit sensitive, confidential, or personal information to the Unpaid Services."

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms#unpaid-services

Same here. Plus I want to run this locally because I'm concerned about my data (and hey, I'm a hacker and don't want to be dependent on machines out of my control, and besides I like reproducibility).
it's not that big with gemini flash model, no need for full model for this