Yeah okay. I understand the monetary angle.

However I also have never spent a dime on AI, and I don’t use Gemini. I run Qwen3.6 on my graphics card, or use opencodes free tier. Deepseek-v4- flash is pretty good.

I’ve read a comment recently that Googles local Gemma models hallucinate less than Gemini, but I don’t know if that’s true, since I hardly use Gemma and Gemini not at all.

I recommend downloading some local models and a harness like pi or opencode if you want to play around an have the hardware for it.