Gemini CLI - Hackdot

Re:Gemini CLI by Workaccount2 on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @10:35AM (#44377834)

I think it is pretty clear that these $20/subs are loss leaders, and really only meant to get regular people to really start leaning on LLMs. Once they are hooked, we will see what the actual price of using so much compute is. I would imagine right now they are pricing their APIs either at cost or slightly below.

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Re:Gemini CLI by stpedgwdgfhgdd on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @11:55AM (#44378722)

When using a single terminal Pro is good enough (even with a medium-large code base). When I started working with two terminals at two different issues at the same time, i’m reaching the credit limit.

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Re:Gemini CLI by ethbr1 on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @11:49AM (#44378660)

Or they're planning on the next wave of optimized hardware cutting inference costs.

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Re:Gemini CLI by sebzim4500 on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @12:34PM (#44379174)

I'm sure that there are power users who are using much more than $20 worth of compute, but there will also be many users who pay but barely use the service.

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Re:Gemini CLI by upcoming-sesame on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @02:24PM (#44380389)

since its bundled with Google One storage, which most people (into Google's ecosystem) buy anyway, the price is actually less than 20

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Re:Gemini CLI by eertami on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @07:02PM (#44382599)

I would've thought "most" people would be firmly on the free tier, are there any stats to check how common it is? Personally I've had Gmail for 20 years, Android phones for 13 years, Home/chromecast devices but never thought about paying for Google One or any other services.

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Re:Gemini CLI by 8n4vidtmkvmk on Thursday June 26, 2025 @12:06AM (#44384100)

Do you have a pixel and/or use photos? That's how your quota really fills up

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Re:Gemini CLI by upcoming-sesame on Thursday June 26, 2025 @03:24AM (#44385035)

If you're storing photos in Google Photos, the free quota gets used up quickly

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Re:Gemini CLI by dzhiurgis on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @06:38PM (#44382424)

Sam Altman said they use about same amount of power as an oven. So at $0.2/kWh thats about 100kWh/4kW=25 hours of compute or a little over an hour every workday.

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