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$1.00
OUTPUT / 1M TOKENS$5.00
Standard paid-tier text rates; output includes thinking tokens. Listed promotional rates apply through December 31, 2026. Starting January 1, 2027, input is $2 and output is $10 per million tokens. Audio input, storage and tool charges may differ; see usage rates and the source. Cached input price: $0.10 / 1M tokens (base tier).
Published billing units · original currency · observed 12 Oct 2026
Category
Usage
Rate
Unit
Explicit cache
Cache storage1
$0.50
1M tokens / hour
Rate conditions
GenerateContent explicit cache storage, standard paid tier. Promotional price through December 31, 2026; $1.00 per million token-hours starting January 1, 2027. This is additional to generation and cache-read charges.
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. Listed promotional rates apply through December 31, 2026. Starting January 1, 2027, input is $2 and output is $10 per million tokens. Audio input, storage and tool charges may differ; see usage rates and the source.
GenerateContent explicit cache storage, standard paid tier. Promotional price through December 31, 2026; $1.00 per million token-hours starting January 1, 2027. 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.
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.
