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

Google's most advanced generally-available model for complex tasks, with deep reasoning and coding capabilities. Priced in two tiers by prompt size. 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-pro

Pricing · per 1M tokens

Input$1.25

Output$10.00

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

Google tiers by PROMPT SIZE: prompts over 200k tokens are billed at the higher rate on both input and output. Anthropic bills its full 1M window at a flat rate, so long-context comparisons between the two are not like-for-like.

Best for

Reasoning & Research Code Generation Data Extraction & RAG

Used for

Where Gemini 2.5 Pro shows up in practice

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

AI for Supply Chain Demand Forecasting AI for Regulatory Compliance Automation AI for Demand Forecasting AI for Financial Forecasting and Planning AI for Market and Competitive Research AI Readiness Assessment AI Roadmap Development

Sources: Google Gemini API pricing · Google Gemini models overview

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