[msp26]

What the fuck is this price hike? It was such a nice low end, fast model. Who needs 10 years of reasoning on this model size??

I'm gonna switch some workflows to qwen3.5.

There's a lot of tasks that benefit from just having a mildly capable LLM and 2.5 Flash Lite worked out of the box for cheap.

Can we get flash lite lite please?

Edit: Logan said: "I think open source models like Gemma might be the answer here"

Implying that they're not interested in serving lower end Gemini models?

[zzleeper]

Are there good open models out there that beat gemini 2.5 flash on price? I often run data extraction queries ("here is this article, tell me xyz") with structured output (pydantic) and wasn't aware of any feasible (= supports pydantic) cheap enough soln :/

[kristianp]

You'll have to try out models on your use case. Openrouter makes that easy.