Gemini 2.5 Flash API Pricing
Gemini 2.5 Flash costs $0.30 per 1M text, image, or video input tokens, $1.00 per 1M audio input tokens, and $2.50 per 1M output tokens including thinking tokens. Prices were last refreshed on from the AI Pricing Guru daily pricing pipeline.
Cost examples
These examples use published list prices only. They exclude taxes, enterprise discounts, minimum charges, retries, batch discounts, and provider-specific billing rules. For this model, every example below uses the text, image, and video input rates; audio input is priced separately.
1M input + 1M output
$2.80
A direct per-million comparison against every other text model.
100K input + 25K output
$0.0925
A compact chat, summarization, or analysis workload.
10M input + 2M output
$8.00
A monthly production estimate for heavier RAG or agent traffic.
75% cached input + 250K output
$0.7225
Cached input is about 90% cheaper than standard input at list price.
Calculator for Gemini 2.5 Flash
Enter your own input, output, and cached-token assumptions. This calculator is preloaded with only Gemini 2.5 Flash, so the result stays focused on this model. It calculates text, image, and video input only; audio uses Google’s separate audio rates shown above.
This calculator uses the text, image, and video input rates. It does not calculate audio input. Google lists audio input at $1.00 per 1M tokens and cached audio input at $0.10 per 1M tokens.
Input cost
$0.30
Output cost
$2.50
Total
$2.80
Price history
No list-price movement across 164 daily snapshots from 2026-04-16 to 2026-09-27.
When to use Gemini 2.5 Flash
Good fit
- high-volume routing, classification, extraction, summaries, and fallback traffic
Be careful with
- decisions that depend on unpublished context-window limits without checking the provider docs first