[HackerThemAll]

What people seem to miss very hard is that they get interactive chat mode of all the models, including the best and newest (Gemini 2.5 Pro, 2.5 Flash, 2.5 Flash Lite and older) totally for free. I mean when working from chat at https://aistudio.google.com/ the entire 1M context window and all is totally free of charge. You really get a very good AI for nothing.

https://i.imgur.com/pgfRrZY.png

[7thpower]

Funny you mention this, I literally just got done loading the context window of AI studio up for an hour doing some prototyping and then was frustrated when I couldn’t see where I was at from billing (knew it couldn’t be that much, but I still like to know).

I assumed because I’m on paid tiers it would still cost behind a certain usage amount, but I guess not.

[cma]

Can you opt out of them training on your data in that free tier?

[relatedtitle]

If you have cloud billing enabled you can still use it for free and they say they don't train on it. https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/billing#paid-api-ai-st...

[matesz]

Geminis free tier allows maybe 5 messages on average, for 2.5 pro at least and this is not usable.

I’m using Claude Pro for daily driver and Gemini / ChatGPT free tiers.

[rat9988]

> Geminis free tier allows maybe 5 messages on average, for 2.5 pro at least and this is not usable.

Not on ai studio.

[matesz]

Oh my... I didn't know about Gemini Studio and didn't expect the possibility of it existing. Thanks for correcting!

[HackerThemAll]

You are clearly confirming my comment above.

[thomastjeffery]

How?

[ratg13]

Read the text, click the links, let it sink in

[thomastjeffery]

I did that, and I assume GP did as well.

There is some information that you assume to have shared that we are not picking up on.

[what_ever]

May be ask your favorite AI about what you are missing. Or may be ask using AI studio as that won't rate limit you ;)