gemini-2.5-pro pricing
gemini-2.5-pro is priced at $1.25 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens, with roughly 200 ms to first token and about 90 tokens/sec output throughput.
Price per 1M tokens
Input $1.25 · Output $10.00 · Output/input ratio 8.0x.
- 1M input + 1M output tokens: $11.25
- 10M input + 2M output tokens/month: $32.50
- 100M input + 20M output tokens/month: $325.00
Cheaper alternatives to gemini-2.5-pro
Same workload, lower output price. Validate quality before switching.
- llama-4.1-405b — $8.00/1M output (20% cheaper)
- gpt-5.2 — $8.00/1M output (20% cheaper)
- gpt-4.1 — $8.00/1M output (20% cheaper)
- o4-mini — $8.00/1M output (20% cheaper)
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