Google AI Studio / Gemini API account; region, tier and quota restrictions apply.
Regions
See Google supported-region and account requirements; region-specific availability not yet collected.
INPUT / 1M TOKENS$0.30
OUTPUT / 1M TOKENS$2.50
Standard paid-tier text rates; output includes thinking tokens. Audio input, storage and tool charges may differ; see usage rates and the source. Cached input price: $0.03 / 1M tokens (base tier).
Published billing units · original currency · observed 12 Oct 2026
Category
Usage
Rate
Unit
Explicit cache
Cache storage1
$1.00
1M tokens / hour
Rate conditions
GenerateContent explicit cache storage, standard paid tier. Retention duration multiplies storage cost. This is additional to generation and cache-read charges.
Perplexity API key; POST https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/agent (compatibility alias: /v1/responses). Set service_tier=default. auto or an omitted tier also selects default processing.
Perplexity Agent API default processing; USD per million tokens. Tool calls are charged separately when used. Rates are host-specific, not the model developer’s direct-API prices. Unknown cache-write charges are not treated as zero. Cached input price: $0.03 / 1M tokens (base tier).
Published billing units · original currency · observed 12 Oct 2026
Category
Usage
Rate
Unit
Tool add-on
Web search1
$0.0025
invocation
Tool add-on
Fast search2
$0.001
invocation
Tool add-on
Image search3
$0.0025
successful invocation
Tool add-on
URL fetch4
$0.0005
invocation
Tool add-on
People search5
$0.005
invocation
Tool add-on
Finance search6
$0.005
invocation
Tool add-on
Code sandbox7
$0.03
container session
Tool add-on
Search inside sandbox8
$0.0025
SDK search request
Rate conditions
Standard web search. Optional Agent API tool usage is separate from token billing. This fee is not proof that this model supports every tool. Token service-tier multipliers are not applied to these tool fees.
web_search with search_type=fast. Optional Agent API tool usage is separate from token billing. This fee is not proof that this model supports every tool. Token service-tier multipliers are not applied to these tool fees.
Image search bills successful invocations. Optional Agent API tool usage is separate from token billing. This fee is not proof that this model supports every tool. Token service-tier multipliers are not applied to these tool fees.
Fetch and extract URL content. Optional Agent API tool usage is separate from token billing. This fee is not proof that this model supports every tool. Token service-tier multipliers are not applied to these tool fees.
People search tool. Optional Agent API tool usage is separate from token billing. This fee is not proof that this model supports every tool. Token service-tier multipliers are not applied to these tool fees.
Financial search tool. Optional Agent API tool usage is separate from token billing. This fee is not proof that this model supports every tool. Token service-tier multipliers are not applied to these tool fees.
Up to 20 minutes of active use per billing window; this is not a runtime cap. Optional Agent API tool usage is separate from token billing. This fee is not proof that this model supports every tool. Token service-tier multipliers are not applied to these tool fees.
Additional SDK search calls made inside a sandbox. Optional Agent API tool usage is separate from token billing. This fee is not proof that this model supports every tool. Token service-tier multipliers are not applied to these tool fees.
Interactions supports implicit caching only. For explicit caching, create a cache with the GenerateContent API and pass its name as cached_content.Source for How to enable it (opens in a new tab)
Reads use the cached-input rate. Explicit cache storage is billed per million tokens per hour, in addition to generation. Free-tier eligibility and audio rates vary by model.Source for Billing rules (opens in a new tab)
Limits & data boundaries
Cached content is a prompt prefix and counts toward the input limit. Implicit hits are not guaranteed. Explicit caching uses GenerateContent v1beta; API and model eligibility must match.Source for Limits & data boundaries (opens in a new tab)
Standard paid-tier text rates; output includes thinking tokens. Audio input, storage and tool charges may differ; see usage rates and the source.
GenerateContent explicit cache storage, standard paid tier. Retention duration multiplies storage cost. This is additional to generation and cache-read charges.
Observed 12 Oct 2026. Write rates and storage fees are different charges; use the billing rules above.
Do not inherit the model developer’s direct-API retention policy onto the Perplexity endpoint.
How to enable it
Not collected
Usage fields
Not collected
Billing rules
Published discounted cache-read rates apply to this default service tier. Write charges, minimum cacheable input, retention and cache controls have not been verified for this host.Source for Billing rules (opens in a new tab)
Perplexity Agent API default processing; USD per million tokens. Tool calls are charged separately when used. Rates are host-specific, not the model developer’s direct-API prices. Unknown cache-write charges are not treated as zero.
Observed 12 Oct 2026. Write rates and storage fees are different charges; use the billing rules above.
Caching reviewed 12 Oct 2026
What the measurements say
No benchmark observations have been added for this model. We do not turn a vendor description into a performance score.
Latency and throughput depend on the host, request size, reasoning settings and load. There is no measured speed or global usage figure in this record.
The record behind the model
Why it is included
Google-documented proprietary hosted release in the Gemini API model catalog. No public weights identified for this release in the reviewed documentation; public-weight Gemma models are excluded.
