Google Unveils Pricing for Gemini 2.5 Pro: What You Need to Know

On Friday, Google made waves in the AI community with the announcement of its API pricing for Gemini 2.5 Pro, a cutting-edge reasoning model that’s already being hailed as an industry leader in coding, reasoning, and math benchmarks. If you’re curious about how it stacks up against the competition, this article breaks it down for you.

Pricing Breakdown

For prompts up to 200,000 tokens—think of that as roughly 750,000 words, or longer than the entire Lord of the Rings series—developers will be charged $1.25 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. But if your prompts venture beyond 200,000 tokens—a feat not supported by many of Google’s competitors—the rates jump to $2.50 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens.

A Cost Comparison

With these rates, Gemini 2.5 Pro is on the pricey side compared to other models from Google, like Gemini 2.0 Flash, which charges a mere $0.10/M for input tokens and $0.40/M for output tokens. It also edges out other notable AI models, including OpenAI’s o3-mini, at $1.10/M input tokens and $4.40/M output tokens, and DeepSeek’s R1, priced at $0.55/M input tokens and $2.19/M output tokens.

That said, it’s worth mentioning that Gemini 2.5 Pro, which is currently available for free but with strict rate limits, still fares better than some competitive models like Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet at $3/M input tokens and OpenAI’s GPT-4.5, which can skyrocket to $75/M input tokens and $150/M output tokens.

Industry Reactions

The tech industry has responded favorably—developers seem to appreciate what they see as reasonable rates for a highly capable model. However, there’s a larger trend worth noting: the cost of premium AI models seems to be climbing. For instance, OpenAI’s recently launched o1-pro is now the company’s most expensive offering yet, priced at $150/M input tokens and an astonishing $600/M output tokens.

Could it be that demand and the soaring costs of computing are behind this trend? Google CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned that Gemini 2.5 Pro is quickly becoming a favorite among developers, with an impressive 80% increase in usage on Google’s AI Studio platform in just this past month.

Looking Ahead

As AI continues to evolve, it’s becoming clear that developers need to stay informed. If you’re diving into the realm of AI, whether to enhance your coding endeavors or simply to satisfy your curiosity, keep an eye on these trends and how they impact your projects.

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