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Morning Edition · Thursday, November 12, 2026Published at 1:18 AM EST · New York
Google prices Gemini Decision 1 at $0.10 per million input tokens and charges nothing for output
The new Decisions API returns calibrated probabilities over yes-no, multiple-choice and rubric answers in a single pass, with 150 to 250 milliseconds of end-to-end latency according to Google.
Google launched the Gemini Decisions API on November 11. It runs a model called Gemini Decision 1, which does not generate free text. It scores a fixed set of answer options in one forward pass and returns a probability and a confidence sco…
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Frontier Model Price War
Frontier API vendors increasingly compete on strategic price-cutting rather than pure capability, repeatedly launching or repricing models below prevailing rates to grab share and compressing industry inference margins; expect recurring below-rival pricing moves.
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