●SUNSET — gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview shuts down on August 31. Twelve days out, there is not much room left to push the migration back●MIGRATION — The replacement is Gemini Robotics ER 2, in public preview since July 30, with spatial reasoning, agentic code execution, and multi-step tool orchestration●PRICING — Gemini 3.7 Flash went GA on August 13 at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 output, roughly half what Flash models have cost, holding through December 31, 2026●PRICING — List prices double to $1.50 and $7.50 on January 1, 2027. Anything running across the new year deserves a two-stage estimate now rather than a surprise in January●AVAILABILITY — Beyond the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, 3.7 Flash is live in Android Studio, Google Antigravity, and the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform●DEPRECATION — The temperature, top_p, and top_k sampling parameters remain deprecated. If your code sets them explicitly, measure the output difference without them while there is still time●SUNSET — gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview shuts down on August 31. Twelve days out, there is not much room left to push the migration back●MIGRATION — The replacement is Gemini Robotics ER 2, in public preview since July 30, with spatial reasoning, agentic code execution, and multi-step tool orchestration●PRICING — Gemini 3.7 Flash went GA on August 13 at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 output, roughly half what Flash models have cost, holding through December 31, 2026●PRICING — List prices double to $1.50 and $7.50 on January 1, 2027. Anything running across the new year deserves a two-stage estimate now rather than a surprise in January●AVAILABILITY — Beyond the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, 3.7 Flash is live in Android Studio, Google Antigravity, and the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform●DEPRECATION — The temperature, top_p, and top_k sampling parameters remain deprecated. If your code sets them explicitly, measure the output difference without them while there is still time

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◈ Gemini API/2026-07-19Advanced

Still image or short clip? Deciding feature placement from the cost gap between Nano Banana 2 Lite and Omni Flash

When I froze over whether a wallpaper app's hero asset should be a still image or a short moving loop, the deciding factor was not taste but the order of magnitude of the cost. Here is how to normalize Nano Banana 2 Lite and Omni Flash onto the same footing, down to a working decision function.

◈ Gemini API/2026-07-05Intermediate

Splitting Bulk Image Generation Cost in Two with Nano Banana 2 Lite: A Draft-and-Render Design

A two-tier cost design that routes first-pass generation to Nano Banana 2 Lite and final renders to the standard Nano Banana 2, with a minimal Python router you can adapt.