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GoogleGemini 2.5 Flash API pricing

Gemini 2.5 Flash costs $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens on Google's API, since .

Current price

Rates in effect from a price change first seen between and . Every price links to its source.

Input
$0.30
Output
$2.50
Blended 3:1
$0.85
Gemini 2.5 Flash current rates per 1M tokens
RatePer 1M tokens
Standard
Input$0.30
Cached input$0.03
Output$2.50
Batch
Input$0.15
Cached input$0.03
Output$1.25

Launch price

Gemini 2.5 Flash launched at this price on .

Input
$0.30
Output
$2.50
Blended 3:1
$0.85

Price history

InputOutput
$0$1$2$3Jul 2025Oct 2025Jan 2026Apr 2026Jul 2026Oct 2026 Input $0.30, from June 17, 2025Output $2.50, from June 17, 2025Output $2.50Input $0.30 $0$1$2$3Jul 2025Jan 2026Jul 2026 Input $0.30, from June 17, 2025Output $2.50, from June 17, 2025Output $2.50Input $0.30
Headline standard prices per 1M tokens. A filled circle marks a dated change; an open circle, a change first seen between two captures.

Every price event

2 verified events, newest first. 1 price move. Documented since .

  1. Price change · first seen between and

    Rates from first seen between October 5, 2025 and October 9, 2025
    RatePer 1M tokens
    Standard
    Input$0.30
    Cached input$0.03
    Output$2.50
    Batch
    Input$0.15
    Cached input$0.03
    Output$1.25

    Cached input fell from $0.075 to $0.03 (10% of the input price). No official announcement dates this cache price cut; the date is bounded by captures of the docs pricing page. Batch prices were already listed in capture 20250926115107 ($0.15 / $1.25); they appear in this card because it's the first event after they were listed.

    • Price: Archived page (ai.google.dev, captured October 9, 2025)
      quote
      Gemini 2.5 Flash gemini-2.5-flash ... Standard Input price | ... $0.30 (text / image / video) ... Output price (including thinking tokens) | ... $2.50 | Context caching price | ... $0.03 (text / image / video) ... Batch Input price | ... $0.15 (text / image / video) ... Output price (including thinking tokens) | ... $1.25 | Context caching price | ... $0.03 (text / image / video)
    • Price: Pricing page (ai.google.dev)
      quote
      Gemini 2.5 Flash gemini-2.5-flash ... Standard ... $0.30 (text / image / video) ... $2.50 ... Context caching price ... $0.03 (text / image / video) ... Batch ... $0.15 (text / image / video) ... $1.25
    • Date: Archived page (ai.google.dev, captured October 5, 2025)
      quote
      Gemini 2.5 Flash ... Context caching price | ... $0.075 (text / image / video)
    • Date: Archived page (ai.google.dev, captured October 9, 2025)
      quote
      Gemini 2.5 Flash ... Context caching price | ... $0.03 (text / image / video)

  2. Launch price ·

    Rates from June 17, 2025
    RatePer 1M tokens
    Input$0.30
    Cached input$0.075
    Output$2.50

    Single output price including thinking tokens. Batch mode launched on 2025-07-07 at '50% less than the standard rate' (developers blog), but the pricing page only listed per-model batch prices from some time between captures 20250723074118 and 20250926115107.

    • Price: Announcement (developers.googleblog.com)
      quote
      we are updating the pricing for 2.5 Flash: $0.30 / 1M input tokens (*up from $0.15 input) $2.50 / 1M output tokens (*down from $3.50 output) We removed the thinking vs. non-thinking price difference We kept a single price tier regardless of input token size
    • Price: Archived page (ai.google.dev, captured June 17, 2025)
      quote
      Gemini 2.5 Flash ... Input price | Free of charge | $0.30 (text / image / video) $1.00 (audio) | Output price | Free of charge | $2.50 | Context caching price | ... $0.075 (text / image / video)
    • Date: Announcement (developers.googleblog.com)
      quote
      JUNE 17, 2025 ... Gemini 2.5 Flash is generally available and stable
    • Date: Changelog (ai.google.dev)
      quote
      June 17, 2025 ... Released gemini-2.5-flash, our first stable 2.5 Flash model.

Gaps in this history

Batch prices from the 2025-07-07 batch launch until they were listed per model (by 2025-09-26) aren't documented. No official date for the October 2025 cache price cut. Flex and Priority tiers (from 2026-04-01) are out of scope.

API ids

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