Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro: A Premium AI Model with Competitive Pricing

Google introduces API pricing for Gemini 2.5 Pro, setting a new benchmark for AI model costs with its advanced reasoning capabilities.

Friday was a big day for Google—they finally spilled the beans on how much their shiny new AI, Gemini 2.5 Pro, will cost you. And let me tell you, it’s not exactly pocket change. This beast is leading the pack in coding, reasoning, and math (you know, the usual brainy stuff). For the devs out there, it’s $1.25 per million input tokens (that’s about 750,000 words, give or take) and $10 per million output tokens for prompts under 200,000 tokens. Go over that, and the price jumps to $2.50 and $15, respectively. 💸

Yep, Gemini 2.5 Pro is now Google’s priciest AI model, making Gemini 2.0 Flash look like a bargain and leaving competitors like OpenAI’s o3-mini and DeepSeek’s R1 in the dust. But hey, it’s still cheaper than splurging on Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet or OpenAI’s GPT-4.5, so there’s that. 🏅

Surprisingly, the tech crowd isn’t up in arms. They’re actually pretty chill about the pricing, seeing it as fair game given the model’s chops. Sundar Pichai, Google’s big boss, is all smiles too, boasting an 80% spike in usage on Google’s AI Studio and the Gemini API this month. Guess everyone’s got a taste for the high life. 🚀