Gemini 3.5 Flash is twice as expensive as ChatGPT 5.5 on GitHub Copilot. Also, Gemini reasoning models are MoE

Also FYI, Gemini reasoning models (2.5 Pro, 3.0 Pro and 3.1 Pro) were MoE. I don't know why this isn't more broadly discussed. As long as Google keeps doing that, they are bound to be out-competed by OpenAI and Anthropic, and deliver largely useless models for advanced applications (e.g. research). Clearly, Google is more concerned with developing fast and cheap* LLMs they can integrate across their products, especially google search, rather than with being the best model for advanced tasks. (*Ironically Flash is not cheap, at least for now)