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●ROBOTICS — The ER 1.6 preview that shut down on August 31 does have a successor. Gemini Robotics ER 2 is in public preview, in both standard and streaming variants●VIDEO — ER 2 judges success and failure from live video rather than still snapshots, which is what lets it catch spills, slips, and misalignments while a task is still running●DEADLINE — Next up is September 30, when gemini-omni-flash-preview is retired. The target is gemini-omni-1.1-flash, GA since August 27, and there are now under four weeks left●APIKEY — Every remaining standard API key, restricted ones included, stops working during September. The replacement is an auth key bound to a Google Cloud service account●PRICE — Gemini 3.7 Flash keeps its introductory $0.75/$3.75 per 1M through December 31, then moves to $1.50/$7.50 on January 1, 2027. Any estimate crossing the year needs both figures●AUDIO — Gemini 3.5 Transcribe handles language detection across 85+ languages, speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, and custom vocabulary biasing of up to 1,000 terms●ROBOTICS — The ER 1.6 preview that shut down on August 31 does have a successor. Gemini Robotics ER 2 is in public preview, in both standard and streaming variants●VIDEO — ER 2 judges success and failure from live video rather than still snapshots, which is what lets it catch spills, slips, and misalignments while a task is still running●DEADLINE — Next up is September 30, when gemini-omni-flash-preview is retired. The target is gemini-omni-1.1-flash, GA since August 27, and there are now under four weeks left●APIKEY — Every remaining standard API key, restricted ones included, stops working during September. The replacement is an auth key bound to a Google Cloud service account●PRICE — Gemini 3.7 Flash keeps its introductory $0.75/$3.75 per 1M through December 31, then moves to $1.50/$7.50 on January 1, 2027. Any estimate crossing the year needs both figures●AUDIO — Gemini 3.5 Transcribe handles language detection across 85+ languages, speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, and custom vocabulary biasing of up to 1,000 terms
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◉ Gemini Basics/2026-08-28Beginner

What decides whether your Gemini API data trains Google's models, and the one exception on the paid tier

Whether your Gemini API prompts feed model training is not settled by the paid tier alone. Here is how AI Studio and the API define paid differently, how dataset sharing reverses the protection, and what changes by region.

◈ Gemini API/2026-05-02Intermediate

Understanding Gemini API Pricing — A Cost Strategy That Squeezes the Free Tier

Gemini API offers one of the most generous free tiers around, but the boundary is genuinely confusing. This piece sorts out where the free tier ends, when to switch to paid, and how to lean into context caching and multimodal billing — all from a solo developer's wallet perspective.

◈ Gemini API/2026-04-27Intermediate

Gemini API Pricing for Monetization — Free Tier, Paid Tiers, and the Pro vs Ultra Decision

Trying to make money with Gemini API? The pricing page alone won't tell you whether your business survives. Here's the Free Tier, paid Tiers 1–3, and Google AI Pro vs Ultra trade-offs read from a revenue operator's point of view.