25% — Will Input Token Price (Paid Tier) of Google Gemini 3.5 Flash be at or below $1.00/MTok in 2026
Leader: $1.25/MTok or below at 25% · Kalshi 25% · 4 contracts · $0 volume · medium confidence
Updated 2026-06-29 01:45:58 UTC

Tracks the leading outcome in a winner-take-all prediction market set with 4 outcomes.

Why this matters:
This market estimates the likelihood that Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash input token price will remain at or below $1.00 per million tokens through 2026, currently priced at 34%. The probability reflects uncertainty about Google's pricing strategy for its faster, more cost-efficient model variant. Two main drivers shape current sentiment: (1) competitive pressure from other LLM providers who have aggressively cut inference costs, and (2) Google's historical pattern of maintaining price premiums for newer model versions before eventual reductions. The market shows material skepticism—traders assign only a 25% chance the price stays this low, suggesting expectations that Google will price Gemini 3.5 Flash at a modest premium above this threshold. Resolution depends on Google's official pricing announcement and any publicly communicated rate changes before December 2026. If competing models or market demand trigger price wars, downward pressure would increase; conversely, differentiated performance could justify holding prices higher.

Key factors:
- Google's current pricing for Gemini 3.5 Flash and any publicly announced pricing structure relative to the $1.00/MTok threshold
- Competitor pricing actions by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta for comparable inference-optimized models
- Evidence of market-driven price compression or Google's stated strategy regarding pricing tiers and cost reduction timelines
- Google's historical pricing evolution for Gemini variants—whether new models typically launch at premiums or competitive parity
- Volume and adoption signals for Gemini 3.5 Flash that might influence Google's willingness to compete on price

Contracts:
- Will Input Token Price (Paid Tier) of Google Gemini 3.5 Flash be at or below $1.25/MTok in 2026?: $1.25/MTok or below — 25¢ Kalshi $0 (weight 25%)
- Will Input Token Price (Paid Tier) of Google Gemini 3.5 Flash be at or below $1.00/MTok in 2026?: $1.00/MTok or below — 17¢ Kalshi $0 (weight 25%)
- Will Input Token Price (Paid Tier) of Google Gemini 3.5 Flash be at or below $0.75/MTok in 2026?: $0.75/MTok or below — 11¢ Kalshi $0 (weight 25%)
- Will Input Token Price (Paid Tier) of Google Gemini 3.5 Flash be at or below $0.50/MTok in 2026?: $0.50/MTok or below — 4¢ Kalshi $0 (weight 25%)

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## Methodology

SimpleFunctions aggregates live YES-side prices from Kalshi and Polymarket contracts bound to this question. For binary topics the headline is the liquidity-weighted mid-price (weight = log(1 + 24h volume) × freshness, where freshness is 1.0 if updated <24h, 0.7 if <7d, 0.4 otherwise). For multi-outcome (winner-take-all) topics the headline is the current leader's price — disjoint outcomes are never arithmetically averaged. Snapshots refresh every 5 minutes during market hours.

## SF Signal

- SF Index, regime, and 30d Brier calibration are computed separately and surfaced at https://simplefunctions.dev/admin/calibration.
- No SimpleFunctions index / regime / calibration signal is bound to this topic yet — the headline above is market-derived only.

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*Last verified: 2026-06-29T01:20:49.123Z*

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Cite as: "25% per prediction markets (SimpleFunctions, June 2026)"
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