Gemini pricing is currently characterized by high stability across its various model tiers. Since NetLift began monitoring the official pricing page on July 27, 2026, only one record has been noted for Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, which maintained its output price of $21 per million tokens.
Procurement and finance teams should note that costs are segmented by model capability and context volume. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview, for example, utilizes a tiered pricing model that doubles input and output costs once prompt volume exceeds 200,000 tokens. This makes context management a primary lever for controlling Gemini spend.
Gemini pricing history
| Date |
Plan |
Previous price |
New price |
| 2026-08-17 |
Gemini API — Paid |
Contact sales |
Contact sales |
| 2026-08-17 |
Gemini API — Free |
$0 |
$0 |
| 2026-08-17 |
Gemini API — Enterprise |
Contact sales |
Contact sales |
| 2026-08-17 |
Gemini API — Enterprise |
Contact sales |
Contact sales |
| 2026-08-17 |
Gemini API Grounding — Grounding with Google Search |
$14 |
$14 |
| 2026-08-17 |
Gemini API Grounding — Grounding with Google Maps |
$14 |
$14 |
| 2026-08-17 |
Gemini 3.7 Flash — Standard Paid Tier - Output (including thinking tokens) (2027) |
$7.50 |
$7.50 |
| 2026-08-17 |
Gemini 3.7 Flash — Standard Paid Tier - Output (including thinking tokens) |
$3.75 |
$3.75 |
| 2026-08-17 |
Gemini 3.7 Flash — Standard Paid Tier - Input (2027) |
$1.50 |
$1.50 |
| 2026-08-17 |
Gemini 3.7 Flash — Standard Paid Tier - Input |
$0.75 |
$0.75 |
| 2026-08-17 |
Gemini 3.7 Flash — Standard Paid Tier - Context Caching Storage |
$0.5 |
$0.5 |
| 2026-08-17 |
Gemini 3.7 Flash — Priority Paid Tier - Input |
$1.35 |
$1.35 |
| 2026-08-17 |
Gemini 3.7 Flash — Batch/Flex Paid Tier - Input |
$0.38 |
$0.38 |
| 2026-08-17 |
Gemini 3.5 Live Translate — Standard Paid Tier - Audio Output |
$0.03 |
$0.03 |
| 2026-08-17 |
Gemini 3.5 Live Translate — Standard Paid Tier - Audio Input |
$0.01 |
$0.01 |
| 2026-08-17 |
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite — Standard Paid Tier - Output |
$2.50 |
$2.50 |
| 2026-08-17 |
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite — Standard Paid Tier - Input |
$0.3 |
$0.3 |
| 2026-08-17 |
Gemini 3.5 Flash — Standard Paid Tier - Output |
$9 |
$9 |
| 2026-08-17 |
Gemini 3.5 Flash — Standard Paid Tier - Input |
$1.50 |
$1.50 |
| 2026-08-17 |
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite — Standard Paid Tier - Output |
$1.50 |
$1.50 |
| 2026-08-17 |
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite — Standard Paid Tier - Input (Text/Image/Video) |
$0.25 |
$0.25 |
| 2026-08-17 |
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite — Standard Paid Tier - Input (Audio) |
$0.5 |
$0.5 |
| 2026-08-07 |
Gemini in BigQuery — Core features |
$0 |
$0 |
| 2026-08-07 |
Gemini Code Assist — Standard (Monthly commitment) |
$0.03 |
$0.03 |
| 2026-08-07 |
Gemini Code Assist — Standard (12-month commitment) |
$0.03 |
$0.03 |
| 2026-08-07 |
Gemini Code Assist — Enterprise (Monthly commitment) |
$0.07 |
$0.07 |
| 2026-08-07 |
Gemini Code Assist — Enterprise (12-month commitment) |
$0.06 |
$0.06 |
| 2026-08-07 |
Gemini Cloud Assist — Preview Features |
$0 |
$0 |
| 2026-08-07 |
Gemini API — Enterprise |
Contact sales |
Contact sales |
NetLift has monitored the official Gemini pricing page since 2026-08-07. 29 change(s) recorded so far.
Current verified per-token prices
| Model / rate |
Price |
Unit |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite — Standard Paid Tier - Input (Text/Image/Video) |
$0.25 |
per 1M input tokens |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite — Standard Paid Tier - Input (Audio) |
$0.5 |
per 1M input tokens |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite — Standard Paid Tier - Output |
$1.50 |
per 1M output tokens |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash — Standard Paid Tier - Input |
$1.50 |
per 1M input tokens |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash — Standard Paid Tier - Output |
$9 |
per 1M output tokens |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite — Standard Paid Tier - Input |
$0.3 |
per 1M input tokens |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite — Standard Paid Tier - Output |
$2.50 |
per 1M output tokens |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash — Batch/Flex Paid Tier - Input |
$0.38 |
per 1M input tokens |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash — Standard Paid Tier - Input |
$0.75 |
per 1M input tokens |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash — Priority Paid Tier - Input |
$1.35 |
per 1M input tokens |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash — Standard Paid Tier - Input (2027) |
$1.50 |
per 1M input tokens |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash — Standard Paid Tier - Output (including thinking tokens) |
$3.75 |
per 1M output tokens |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash — Standard Paid Tier - Output (including thinking tokens) (2027) |
$7.50 |
per 1M output tokens |
How does context length affect Gemini Pro costs?
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview pricing is sensitive to the volume of data processed in a single prompt. For prompts up to 200,000 tokens, the input rate is $2 per million tokens. However, once this threshold is crossed, the rate increases to $4 per million tokens. Output costs follow a similar trajectory, rising from $12 to $18 per million tokens. Financial planning must account for these steps in the cost curve when deploying long-context applications.
What are the trade-offs between Flash tiers?
Model versions like Gemini 3.6 Flash offer Standard, Priority, and Batch/Flex tiers. Priority tiers, designed for low-latency requirements, charge a significant premium, such as $2.70 for input and $13.50 for output per million tokens. Organizations focused on cost efficiency can utilize the Batch/Flex tier, which reduces input costs to $0.75 and output to $3.75 per million tokens for non-urgent workloads.
Measuring the value of Gemini adoption requires looking past per-token API costs to track actual time saved versus baseline labor. NetLift allows organizations to correlate these specific token expenditures with productivity gains, providing a clear view of whether the $21 translation output or the $0.25 Flash-Lite input actually delivers a net return on investment.
Sources
All pricing on this page comes from official vendor pages: