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Re:Claude vs. Gemini: Testing on 1M Tokens of Context by HackerThemAll on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @04:15PM (#44881289)
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

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Re:Claude vs. Gemini: Testing on 1M Tokens of Context by cma on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @04:24PM (#44881391)
Can you opt out of them training on your data in that free tier?
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Re:Claude vs. Gemini: Testing on 1M Tokens of Context by relatedtitle on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @04:52PM (#44881691)
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...
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Re:Claude vs. Gemini: Testing on 1M Tokens of Context by matesz on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @04:59PM (#44881751)
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.

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Re:Claude vs. Gemini: Testing on 1M Tokens of Context by rat9988 on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @05:20PM (#44881936)
> Geminis free tier allows maybe 5 messages on average, for 2.5 pro at least and this is not usable.

Not on ai studio.

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Re:Claude vs. Gemini: Testing on 1M Tokens of Context by matesz on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @01:39AM (#44884972)
Oh my... I didn't know about Gemini Studio and didn't expect the possibility of it existing. Thanks for correcting!
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Re:Claude vs. Gemini: Testing on 1M Tokens of Context by HackerThemAll on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @05:27PM (#44881998)
You are clearly confirming my comment above.
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Re:Claude vs. Gemini: Testing on 1M Tokens of Context by thomastjeffery on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @06:54PM (#44882705)
How?
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Re:Claude vs. Gemini: Testing on 1M Tokens of Context by ratg13 on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @07:15PM (#44882874)
Read the text, click the links, let it sink in
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Re:Claude vs. Gemini: Testing on 1M Tokens of Context by thomastjeffery on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @08:07PM (#44883246)
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.

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Re:Claude vs. Gemini: Testing on 1M Tokens of Context by what_ever on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @02:32AM (#44885250)
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 ;)
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Re:Claude vs. Gemini: Testing on 1M Tokens of Context by 7thpower on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @07:58PM (#44883188)
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.

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