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It’s far more than reasonable, it might be Google’s saving grace.

I wasn’t going to bother even testing Google’s AI products unless everyone started gushing about how much better they are than GPT4 but with 60 free queries per minute? That’s worth exploring even if only to find out shortly that it’s not worth paying for.

Typical Google behavior, where it's cheap/free in the beginning, and when you've built on top of it prices increases drastically? Like gmaps pricing.

This must be a significant investment to pick up the hype; 1 qps cannot be sustainable with a free pricing tier unless their resource efficiency is 10x better than competitors.

No doubt it’s a loss leader to some degree but, in practice, very, very few customers will have sustained request rates of 60 requests per minute. Their actual usage averaged across all users will be a tiny fraction of that.

For users that get close to that sustained rate, they’re just as likely to exceed it and actually pay.