What the fuck is this price hike? It was such a nice low end, fast model. Who needs 10 years of reasoning on this model size??

I'm gonna switch some workflows to qwen3.5.

There's a lot of tasks that benefit from just having a mildly capable LLM and 2.5 Flash Lite worked out of the box for cheap.

Can we get flash lite lite please?

Edit: Logan said: "I think open source models like Gemma might be the answer here"

Implying that they're not interested in serving lower end Gemini models?