Google is officially ending the era of free access to powerful artificial intelligence models. In a new email the company sent to developers, PaLM API announced that it will close free access on August 15. In this context, users paid Gemini APIs He announced that he would.
Google is shutting down the free PaLM API
PaLM API used to create a custom chat bot; made it free with the renewed Gemini earlier this year. In this context, developers could continue to use the PaLM model free of charge through the Google AI Studio platform.
With the closure decision that will come into effect on August 15, it will not be possible to access PaLM. Google aims to make money from these models by offering the Gemini API for a fee. It should be noted that OpenAI also shares the APIs of the GPT language model for a fee.
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Google bans PaLM API users on Google Cloud Platform will direct it to Gemini models through subscriptions. Pricing starts at $7 for 1 million tokens and goes up to $21 for the same number of coins.
Paid APIs will not affect tools like Gemini. You will continue to have free access to Google Gemini. Only people who develop their own chatbots via Google APIs will now have to pay.
This decision is bad news for many individual developers and small companies. It marks the end of the free trial of Google’s most advanced AI capabilities. On the other hand, full access to Gemini will continue to be offered through Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform.