Gemini API pricing
Gemini 4 Carbon, the Google flagship, costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. Google’s other current models, per million input / output tokens: Gemini 4 Argon $2 / $10, Gemini 3.8 Flash $0.75 / $3.75 and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite $0.30 / $2.50.
Gemini 4 Argon also run on cheaper AI API credit, up to 50% below list. $25 a month brings $110 of API credit and cancels any time; $25 once buys $100. Gemini has a free plan, and its paid plans are Google AI Plus ($4.99/mo), Google AI Pro ($19.99/mo), Google AI Ultra 5x ($99.99/mo) and Google AI Ultra 20x ($199.99/mo). Gemini monthly plans
| Gemini 4 Carbon | Gemini 4 Argon | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Input | $2.00 | $2.00 | $0.75 | $0.30 |
| Output | $10.00 | $10.00 | $3.75 | $2.50 |
| Cache read | $0.10 | $0.10 | $0.075 | $0.03 |
| Batch input | $1.00 | $1.00 | $0.375 | $0.15 |
| Batch output | $5.00 | $5.00 | $1.875 | $1.25 |
| Through AIGROW credit | ||||
| Input | Not sold through credit | $1.00 | Not sold through credit | Not sold through credit |
| Output | Not sold through credit | $5.00 | Not sold through credit | Not sold through credit |
US dollars per million tokens. List prices read 12 November 2026 from Google. Batch is the Batch API rate, for requests that need no answer at once.
What the film says
- Paying list price for Claude?
- Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Fable 5.2, GPT-6 Astra, Gemini 4 Argon and Grok 4.7, +4 more models
- $1.60 instead of $4.00. Per million input tokens on Claude Opus 5.5.
- 9 of 9 models on sale pass the check against the same model at its maker. The results and the script are public: aigrow.gg/ai-api/genuine-models
- API credit$100 of API credit for $25. Start today.
Per token and per pass
The list price per million tokens, then how many of the benchmark’s 20 office tasks each model passed and what 1,000 passing answers cost, failed runs included.
| Model | Input | Output | Cached input | Context | Tasks passed | 1,000 passes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 4 CarbonFlagships | $2.00 | $10.00 | $0.10 | 1.05M | · | · |
| Gemini 4 ArgonFlagships | $2.00 | $10.00 | $0.10 | 1.05M | · | · |
| Gemini 3.8 FlashWorkhorses | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 | 1.05M | 18 of 20 | $7.17 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteSmall and fast | $0.30 | $2.50 | $0.03 | 1.05M | 7 of 20 | $2.47 |
| Earlier generations | ||||||
| Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)Replaced by Gemini 4 Argon | $2.00 | $12.00 | $0.20 | 1.05M | 19 of 20 | $29.67 |
| Gemini 3 FlashReplaced by Gemini 3.8 Flash | $0.50 | $3.00 | $0.05 | 1.05M | · | · |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-LiteReplaced by Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | $0.25 | $1.50 | $0.025 | 1.05M | 9 of 20 | $1.41 |
AIGROW API credit runs Gemini 4 Argon at $1.00 / $5.00 per million input / output tokens, 50% below list price. See API credit
Gemma 4 31B has open weights and no list price: Google sells no API for it.
To see what your own workload costs on every model, use the LLM API cost calculator.
Gemini monthly plans
Consumer and team subscription plans published by Google for Gemini.
| Plan | Monthly price | Models included |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | Not published |
| Google AI Plus | $4.99/mo | Not published |
| Google AI Pro | $19.99/mo | Gemini 4 ArgonEarlier generations: Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview) |
| Google AI Ultra 5x | $99.99/mo | Gemini 4 ArgonEarlier generations: Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview) |
| Google AI Ultra 20x | $199.99/mo | Gemini 4 ArgonEarlier generations: Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview) |
gemini.google/us/subscriptions/ · Read 20 October 2026. Prices can differ by country and include or exclude tax depending on the country.
A month of Gemini tokens through AIGROW credit
Pick how you use it to see a month at Google’s list price and through credit, from the same rates the meter bills with.
Gemini 4 Argon, Coding agent: $107.10 a month at the list price, $53.55 through AIGROW credit, $53.55 less (50%).
Covered by the $50 monthly planThis use takes 93% of its credit each month.
How we count
A developer in Claude Code, Cline or OpenCode, 250 requests on each of 21 working days. Each request reads 60,000 tokens of conversation and files from the prompt cache, writes 2,400 new ones to it, sends 1,200 uncached and gets 600 back.
Gemini 4 Argon is 50% below list on every kind of token.
Google prices the 4 current models on our list from Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite at $0.30 in and $2.50 out per million tokens to Gemini 4 Argon at $2 in and $10 out. On the AIGROW small-business benchmark Gemini 3.8 Flash had the best record, 18 of 20 tasks passed, at $7.17 per thousand passes.
What three everyday jobs cost
1,000 runs of each job at list price. The token counts are ours; the prices are Google’s.
| Model | 1,000 × support reply | 1,000 × document summary | 1,000 × agent task |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 4 Carbon | $10.00 | $60.00 | $57.00 |
| Gemini 4 Argon | $10.00 | $60.00 | $57.00 |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | $3.75 | $22.50 | $24.00 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | $1.90 | $10.00 | $12.60 |
- Support reply
- A 3,000-token prompt (the ticket, the thread so far and a policy excerpt) and a 400-token answer.
- Document summary
- A 40-page document of about 25,000 tokens in, a 1,000-token summary out.
- Agent task
- Ten steps that read 80,000 tokens between them, 70,000 of them context repeated from step to step and served from cache, and write 3,000.
The small print
What Google’s pricing pages add to the headline rates.
- Gemini 4 Carbon
- Launch price through 2026-11-30; from 2026-12-01 it becomes $4 / $20, cached $0.20. Output includes thinking tokens. Implicit caching only. No long-context premium. Batch and Flex 50% off; Priority $3.60 / $18. Not on the Free tier. Max output 65,536, or up to 1,048,576 with long decode.
- Gemini 4 Argon
- Launch price through 2026-11-30; from 2026-12-01 it becomes $4 / $20, cached $0.20. Output includes thinking tokens. Implicit caching only. No long-context premium. Batch and Flex 50% off; Priority $3.60 / $18. Not on the Free tier.
- Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
- Preview model, but Google has no GA 3.x Pro and it is widely used. Prompts above 200K tokens: $4 / $18, cached $0.40. Cache storage $4.50 per MTok per hour. Batch 50% off. Max output 65,536.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Launch price through 2026-12-31; from 2027-01-01 it becomes $1.50 / $7.50, cached $0.15. Batch and Flex 50% off; Priority $1.35 / $6.75. Cache storage $0.50 per MTok per hour (rising to $1.00).
- Gemini 3 Flash
- In preview; Google now calls it its legacy Flash model. Audio input $1.00 (cached $0.10). Batch 50% off. Cache storage $1.00 per MTok per hour. No long-context surcharge.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
- Same price for text, image, video and audio input. Batch 50% off. Cache storage $1.00 per MTok per hour.
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
- Deprecated: Google shuts it down on 7 May 2027 and recommends Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite instead. Audio input $0.50 (cached $0.05). Batch 50% off. Cache storage $1.00 per MTok per hour.
A price page for each Gemini model
Earlier generations
- Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview) pricingReplaced by Gemini 4 Argon
- Gemini 3 Flash pricingReplaced by Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite pricingReplaced by Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Head to head
The comparisons with a Gemini model on one side, each with both prices and the three jobs costed on each.
- Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Opus 5.5
- Gemini 4 Argon vs GPT-6 Astra
- Gemini 4 Argon vs GPT-6.1 Sol
- Gemini 4 Argon vs Grok 4.7
- Muse Wonder vs Gemini 4 Argon
- GPT-6.1 Sol vs Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
- GPT-6 Luna vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
- Qwen3.7 Plus vs Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Grok 4.3 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
- GPT-6.1 Terra vs Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Mistral Large 4 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Claude Fable 5.2 vs Gemini 4 Carbon
- Claude Fable 5.2 vs Gemini 4 Argon
Comparisons with an earlier generation
- Gemini 4 Argon vs Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
- Claude Opus 5.5 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
- GPT-6.1 Sol vs Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
- GPT-6 Astra vs Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
- Claude Fable 5.1 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
- Claude Opus 5 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
- GPT-5.6 Sol vs Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
- Grok 4.7 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
Where the prices come from
Read on 12 November 2026. Each price is the standard rate for the shortest context band, with no batch or priority discount; long-context surcharges, batch rates and promotions are in each model’s small print. No price was taken from a reseller.
Pay up to 50% below list price
AIGROW API credit covers Gemini 4 Argon at published rates below the list prices above. The credit page lists each rate.
Prices checked 12 November 2026 · See them by release date · See the LLM leaderboard