We don't have accurate price signals externally because Google, in particular, had been very aggressive at treating pricing as a competition exercise than anything that seemed tethered to costs.
For quite some time, their pricing updates would be across-the-board exactly 2/3 of the cost of OpenAI's equivalent mode.
[^1] "If you’re building batch tasks with LLMs and are looking to navigate this new cost landscape, feel free to reach out to see how Sutro can help."
[^2] "Google's decision to raise the price of Gemini 2.5 Flash wasn't just a business decision; it was a signal to the entire market." by far the biggest giveaway, the other tells are repeated fanciful descriptions of things that could be real, that when stacked up, indicate a surreal, artifical, understanding of what they're being asked to write about, i.e. "In a move that at first went unnoticed,"