# Pricing transcribed from the provider's own page — see provenance. Numbers are quoted, not derived.
generated: '2026-09-20'
method: searched
source: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing
sources:
- https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing
- https://ai.google.dev/pricing
provenance:
  tool: planning/api-economics/harvest_pricing.py
  run: 20260920T131751
  grounding: every price_text was found verbatim in the fetched page text
audience: developer-api
pricing_basis: per-call
delivery:
  delivery: managed
  method: page
  read: '2026-09-20'
  managed_tier: Paid
published: true
note: Gemini Developer API pricing page listing free/paid/enterprise tiers and per-1M-token prices across
  many models; only a representative subset of the many model rows is captured.
plan_count: 18
currency: USD
plans:
- name: Free
  price_text: Get started for Free
  currency: USD
  period: none
  included_quota: Limited access to certain models; Free input & output tokens; Google AI Studio access;
    Content used to improve our products
- name: Paid
  price_text: Upgrade to Paid
  currency: USD
  period: none
  included_quota: Higher rate limits, Context caching, Batch API (50% cost reduction), most advanced models
- name: Enterprise
  price_text: Contact Sales
  period: none
  included_quota: All features in Paid, dedicated support, provisioned throughput, volume-based discounts
- name: Gemini 3.8 Flash input (paid)
  price_text: $0.75 through December 31, 2026.
  price: 0.75
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per 1M tokens
  overage: $1.50 starting January 1, 2027.
- name: Gemini 3.8 Flash output (paid)
  price_text: $3.75 through December 31, 2026.
  price: 3.75
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per 1M tokens (including thinking tokens)
  overage: $7.50 starting January 1, 2027.
- name: Gemini 3.5 Flash input (paid)
  price_text: $1.50
  price: 1.5
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per 1M tokens
- name: Gemini 3.5 Flash output (paid)
  price_text: $9.00
  price: 9
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per 1M tokens
- name: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview input
  price_text: $2.00, prompts <= 200k tokens
  price: 2
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per 1M tokens
  overage: $4.00, prompts > 200k tokens
- name: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview output
  price_text: $12.00, prompts <= 200k tokens
  price: 12
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per 1M tokens
  overage: $18.00, prompts > 200k
- name: Gemini 2.5 Pro input
  price_text: $1.25, prompts <= 200k tokens
  price: 1.25
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per 1M tokens
  overage: $2.50, prompts > 200k tokens
- name: Gemini 2.5 Flash input
  price_text: $0.30 (text / image / video)
  price: 0.3
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per 1M tokens
  overage: $1.00 (audio)
- name: Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite output
  price_text: $0.40
  price: 0.4
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per 1M tokens
- name: Gemini 3 Pro Image output (images)
  price_text: $120.00 (images)
  price: 120
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per 1M tokens
  overage: Equivalent to $0.134 per 1K/2K image** and $0.24 per 4K image**
- name: Veo 3.1 Standard video with audio
  price_text: $0.40 (720p and 1080p)
  price: 0.4
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per second
  overage: $0.60 (4k)
- name: Lyria 3.5 (Full Song)
  price_text: $0.08 per song
  price: 0.08
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per request
- name: Gemini Embedding 2 text input
  price_text: $0.20
  price: 0.2
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per 1M tokens
- name: Grounding with Google Search (Gemini 3)
  price_text: 5,000 free search requests per month (shared across all Gemini 3.x models), then $14 per
    1,000 requests.
  price: 14
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per 1,000 requests
  included_quota: 5,000 free search requests per month
- name: File search embeddings
  price_text: Charged for embeddings at $0.15 / 1M tokens.
  price: 0.15
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per 1M tokens
rate_limit_statements:
- 500 RPD free (limit shared for Flash and Flash-Lite). Not available for Pro.
- 'Gemini 2.5 models: 1,500 RPD free (limit shared for Flash and Flash-Lite). Then $35 / 1,000 grounded
  prompts'
- 10,000 RPD free for Pro. Then $25 / 1,000 grounded prompts
- Rate limits are subject to change.