On Friday, Google launched API pricing for Gemini 2.5 Professional, an AI reasoning mannequin with industry-leading efficiency on a number of benchmarks measuring coding, reasoning, and math.
For prompts as much as 200,000 tokens, Gemini 2.5 Professional prices $1.25 per million enter tokens (roughly 750,000 phrases, longer than your entire “Lord of The Rings” sequence) and $10 per million output tokens. For prompts larger than 200,000 tokens (which most of Google’s opponents don’t assist), Gemini 2.5 Professional prices $2.50 per million enter tokens and $15 per million output tokens.
That pricing makes Gemini 2.5 Professional costlier for builders than some other AI mannequin presently supplied by Google, together with Gemini 2.0 Flash ($0.10/million enter tokens, $0.40/million output tokens). It additionally makes Gemini 2.5 Professional costlier than a number of different frontier AI fashions, akin to OpenAI’s o3-mini ($1.10/million enter tokens, $4.40/million output tokens) and DeepSeek’s R1 ($0.55/million enter tokens, $2.19/million output tokens).
To be honest, Gemini 2.5 Professional, which is offered totally free with strict fee limits, is available in cheaper than another extremely aggressive fashions, together with Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet ($3/million enter tokens, $15/million output tokens) and OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 ($75/million enter tokens, $150/million output tokens). The tech {industry}’s preliminary response has been largely constructive, with builders praising what they understand to be smart charges.
However broadly talking, there appears to be some upward strain on pricing for flagship fashions. The price of current top-of-the-line releases from labs like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic has been going up, not down. See, for instance, OpenAI’s lately launched o1-pro, which is the corporate’s most costly API providing but at $150/million enter tokens and $600/million output tokens.
It might be that prime demand and computing prices are driving the development. Based on Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Gemini 2.5 Professional is the corporate’s most in-demand AI mannequin amongst builders, resulting in an 80% enhance in utilization in Google’s AI Studio platform and the Gemini API this month alone.
