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Gemini 2.5 Flash Pricing

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Input / 1M tokens

$0.300

Output / 1M tokens

$2.50

Context window

1,048,576 tokens

≈ 1,398 pages of text

Max output

65,535 tokens

What it costs in practice

Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0014

1,000 requests / month$1.36/mo 10,000 requests / month$13.60/mo 100,000 requests / month$136.00/mo

Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Gemini 2.5 Flash preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.

Price history

Only one price point recorded so far.

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What it excels at

Handles long-context multimodal inputs at high throughput with low latency. Suitable for volume-oriented tasks such as document analysis and real-time audio transcription.

The business tradeoff

Reasoning depth trails Gemini flagship models on complex multi-step problems. Output token pricing is disproportionately high relative to input cost.

Cheaper from Google

Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle$0.0002/ typical request Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)Google$0.0007/ typical request

Same tier from other providers

GPT-5.4 NanoOpenAI$0.0007/ typical request Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic$0.0032/ typical request Llama 3.3 70BMeta$0.0003/ typical request

Head-to-head

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs GPT-5.4 Nano →Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Claude Haiku 4.5 →Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Llama 3.3 70B →

Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.