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Vendors

Gemini API

The Gemini API is Google's own API for its Gemini models, bought through Google AI Studio. Vertex AI, Google Cloud's platform, sells the same models separately.

Gemini API sells 3 of the compared models per token and prices 0 kinds of GPU for hosting your own.

Models sold per token

The cheapest price anywhere, at the standard tier.
ModelInput, per 1M tokensOutput, per 1M tokens
Gemini 2.5 Flash$0.30$2.50
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite$0.10$0.40
Gemini 2.5 Pro$1.25$10.00

Where it runs

One global price; Gemini API chooses where a request is processed.

No place stated for 3 models: one global price, and Gemini API does not say where a request is processed.

Where the prices come from

Sources

List prices collected 3 November 2026, refreshed every three hours. No negotiated rates or taxes.