Gemini 2.5 Flash — pricing and what it's actually good for

Google's price-performance model for low-latency, high-volume tasks that require reasoning. Audio input is billed at a higher rate than text, image or video. Context window and max output tokens are not published on Google's pricing or models overview pages and are recorded as unknown rather than taken from a third party. Pricing captured from Google's own pricing page, 2026-08-07 11:51 UTC.

Released: 17 Jun 2025
API identifier: gemini-2.5-flash

Pricing · per 1M tokens

Input$0.30

Output$2.50

Checked against Google Gemini API pricing on 7 Aug 2026, 11:51 UTC

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Where Gemini 2.5 Flash shows up in practice

The workflows where we shortlist Gemini 2.5 Flash against the alternatives. Each page says why, at what price, and where a cheaper model does the job instead.

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Sources: Google Gemini API pricing · Google Gemini models overview

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