Gemini 4.0 Pro is 5x cheaper than Astra at ~95% performance, big Google win
bindureddy · x · 2026-10-03
Angel investor Bindu Reddy calls Gemini 4.0 Pro a big win for Google:
- It's 5x cheaper than Astra.
- Even at roughly 95% of Astra's performance, it still counts as frontier intelligence.
- In his view, this finally puts Google ahead of open-source models.
Note: these are personal assessments, not officially confirmed figures.
Related event: Gemini 4 Praised as Astra-Class at a Fraction of the Price(2 posts)→
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