Gemini 3 flash 10-12x higher billing than gemini 3 pro

[Jay_Cee]

huge billing/token discrepancy using gemini 3 flash in place of gemini 3 pro on a api key for the same function. I was averaging $2-6 cost using gemini 3 pro, just testing the gemini 3 flash same usage hit 7.7 million tokens, for $25 cost yesterday. you can see the spike even though same use.