Well, well, well. Google’s gone and done it again, releasing Gemini 2.5 Pro, their most expensive AI model to date. Back in our day, we were thrilled if our Java Applets loaded without crashing the browser, and now we’re talking about models that cost a fortune just to process a prompt longer than ‘The Lord of The Rings’. 🧙♂️
For those keeping score at home, Gemini 2.5 Pro will set you back $1.25 per million input tokens (that’s roughly 750,000 words) and $10 per million output tokens. And if you’re feeling extra fancy and go beyond 200,000 tokens, those numbers jump to $2.50 and $15, respectively. Remember when we thought paying for AOL by the hour was steep?
Compared to the old guard like Gemini 2.0 Flash or even some competitors, this is premium pricing. But hey, at least it’s not as bad as OpenAI’s GPT-4.5, which costs an arm and a leg. Kids these days don’t know how good they have it with their ‘free tier’ and ‘rate limits’. Back in my day, we coded our own algorithms and liked it!
The tech world seems to be eating it up, though, with usage skyrocketing. Maybe it’s the computing costs, or maybe it’s just that everyone’s forgotten the joy of debugging Perl scripts at 2 AM. Either way, the price of progress keeps climbing, and us old-timers will just be over here, reminiscing about the good old days.
