If it had deep research and this, with a large number of API requests, I'd consider $200/month.
IME the quality of all models goes down considerably after just a few thousand tokens. The chances of hallucinating, mixing up prompts, forgetting previous prompts, etc., are much more likely as context size increases. I couldn't imagine a context of 1M tokens, let alone 10M, being usable at all. Not to mention that any query is going to come to a crawl just to move that amount of data around (which still annoyingly happens on every query...).
So usually at around 10K tokens I ask it to summarize what was discussed, or I manually trim down the current state, and start a new fresh chat from there. I've found this to work much better than wasting my time fighting bad output. This is also cheaper if you're on a metered plan (OpenRouter, etc.).
[1] But if it is cheap enough, has large context window, then I might consider setting up something akin to claude.ai with Gemini's API.
The official Gemini app works well for me too and there's a nice free tier and it's free if you have a newer Pixel phone. Otherwise $20/month for the Advanced tier. There's no $200/month option.
Does AI Studio allow you to have projects with project files and whatnot?
How about its context window length, more or less than Claude's?
I am also interested in open-source alternatives to the web interface that claude.ai has, I know there are some but I have forgotten their names, would be cool to have a list here.
You can use the Gemini API for free with quite generous allowances, including for 2.5 Pro.
Extremely off-topic: are you still around DS?
edit, well it now appears to be https://firebase.studio/ - that is a recent change I haven't used it since it changed its name..
The 1M context window (2M?) really sets it apart.
I get the subscription fatigue, but there are splurges and there are truly valuable things.
The free tier is "used to improve our products", the paid tier is not.