[OakNinja]

To be fair, Gemini 3.1 flash _lite_ supports structured output (guaranteed json), it’s super fast, runs circles around 2.5 flash and costs $0.25/$1.50.

I use it _a lot_ and it’s very capable if you just plan correctly. I actually almost exclusively use 3.1 flash lite and 2.5 flash lite (even cheaper) and we have 99.5% accuracy in what we do.

That said, I think we’ll see the lite/flash models and the pro models will diverge more price wise. The pro models will become more and more expensive.

[drob518]

I think that’s true on divergence. Basically, the only most is living in the frontier, and even that is only temporary. At some point, the frontier advances such that 99% of tasks can use something short of a frontier model and only a very few tasks actually demand frontier performance.