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So 2.5x the speed at 6x the price [1].

Quite a premium for speed. Especially when Gemini 3 Pro is 1.8x the tokens/sec speed (of regular-speed Opus 4.6) at 0.45x the price [2]. Though it's worse at coding, and Gemini CLI doesn't have the agentic strength of Claude Code, yet.

[1] - https://x.com/claudeai/status/2020207322124132504 [2] - https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models

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6x price/token, so 15x price/second, and only at the API pricing level, not the far cheaper (per token) subscription pricing.

Definitely an interesting way to encourage whales to spend a lot of money quickly.

I didn’t quite understand why they were randomly giving people $50 in credits. But I think this is why?

no, it’s for Max subscribers to enable “use API when running out of session limit”. the assumption (probably) being that many will forget to turn it off, and they’ll earn it back that way.

This was my first thought, but by default, you have no automatic reload of your prepaid account. Which I think is for once user friendly. They could have applied a dark pattern here.

Gemini is pretty good for frontend tasks

> Though it's worse at coding, and Gemini CLI doesn't have the agentic strength of Claude Code, yet.

You can use OpenCode instead of Gemini CLI.

or you can proxy Gemini through Claude Code

That sounds pretty nice. How are you achieving that?

Litellm makes it easy

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