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by xp84 265 days ago
Very cool idea. When using the Gemini option, what kind of cost would be expected to be incurred? I'd be satisfied by knowing the approximate number of tokens one would expect to be consumed by processing an hour of these recordings, and which specific model is being used.
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Gemini 2.5 Pro is pretty expensive, mostly because videos take up a lot of tokens. It's roughly 1 million input tokens/hr, with a relatively insignificant amount of output tokens. Fortunately, Gemini has a very generous free tier, which is more than enough to cover daily usage. If you set up one paid project (and just don't consume any tokens), you can still use the free tier on a different project, and they can't train on your data.