Frequently asked questions
How much does the Gemini 2.5 Flash API cost?
Gemini 2.5 Flash costs $0.3 per million input tokens and $2.5 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.03 per million (90% off). Note: Cached input also incurs $1.00/MTok/hour storage.
How much does a typical chat message cost with Gemini 2.5 Flash?
A short chat message (about 500 input and 250 output tokens) costs roughly $0.0008 with Gemini 2.5 Flash. At 1,000 such requests a day, that is about $23.25 per month.
Is Gemini 2.5 Flash cheap compared to similar models?
Gemini 2.5 Flash has the #8 cheapest input rate of the 26 models we track. On a mixed workload (10K input / 2K output), it costs $0.0080 per request, versus $0.0061 for DeepSeek V4 Pro.
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Last updated 2026-08-03. Prices verified againstGoogle's official pricing page; see themethodology.