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Historical model (legacy). The rates below are the last recorded rates, not a recommendation for a new deployment.

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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. These rates were last verified on .

Published rates and billing units

Billing dimensionUSD list price
Input / 1M tokens$0.30
Cached input / 1M tokens$0.03
Audio input / 1M tokens$1.00
Cached audio input / 1M tokens$0.10
Output / 1M tokens$2.50

Verified 2026-11-02 · Official source · Pricing methodology. Taxes, optional services and account-specific discounts are not included.

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 209 daily snapshots from 2026-04-16 to 2026-11-11.

When to use Gemini 2.5 Flash

Good fit

  • high-volume routing, classification, extraction, summaries, and fallback traffic
  • long-document and repository-scale prompts where context window matters

Be careful with

  • blind migration without testing your own prompts, latency, and failure modes

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