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Question about Thumio’s pricing vs Gemini image costs
Hey Corbin,I was going through Google’s official pricing for Gemini 3 Pro / Nano Banana Pro and wanted to understand your pricing model better.
From Google’s docs (I’ll attach the screenshots), the standard image output cost for 1K / 2K images comes out to roughly $0.134 per image.On Thumio, your Creator plan is $12/month → 1000 credits, and since 1 thumbnail = 10 credits, that works out to $0.12 per thumbnail for the end user.
So from the outside, it looks like:
- Google’s raw image cost ≈ $0.134
- Thumio’s user-facing cost ≈ $0.12
I’m guessing there’s some smart optimization happening here (batching, mixed resolutions, internal credit modeling, averaging across users, etc.), and I’m sure I’m missing context.
I’m not questioning the pricing at all — just genuinely curious how you’ve structured it so it stays profitable while still being cheaper than the apparent per-image API rate.
Would love to understand:
- Are you using batch vs standard differently?
- Is the credit system designed around averages rather than per-image cost?
- Or is there another optimization at play?
Really appreciate the transparency you usually bring — would be awesome to learn how you’re thinking about this 🙌
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Question about Thumio’s pricing vs Gemini image costs
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