That's the problem for me. Google can have the world's best model; it doesn't matter to me, because I effectively can't use it.
Both Opus 5.5 and Sol 6.1 are extremely good and provide a lot of inference on their $200 plans, and then there are the Chinese models - DeepSeek 4.1 Flash, MiMo, and StepFun all offer a lot of value per cost.
At the moment, I don't see a niche where it makes sense to use Google's models, regardless of how good they are.
That's the problem for me. Google can have the world's best model; it doesn't matter to me, because I effectively can't use it.
Both Opus 5.5 and Sol 6.1 are extremely good and provide a lot of inference on their $200 plans, and then there are the Chinese models - DeepSeek 4.1 Flash, MiMo, and StepFun all offer a lot of value per cost.
At the moment, I don't see a niche where it makes sense to use Google's models, regardless of how good they are.