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Gemini 2.5 Pro

by Google · google/gemini-2.5-pro · #249 cheapest of 325 paid models

Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 1:31 AM UTC · refreshed hourly

Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google’s state-of-the-art AI model designed for advanced reasoning, coding, mathematics, and scientific tasks. It employs “thinking” capabilities, enabling it to reason through responses with enhanced accuracy...

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Pricing

Input

$1.25

per 1M tokens

Output

$10.00

per 1M tokens

Blended (3:1)

$3.44

3 input : 1 output

Cache read

$0.125

per 1M cached tokens

Cache write

$0.375

per 1M tokens

Cache & batch economics

Effective prices for Gemini 2.5 Pro with prompt caching.

Cache hit rateEffective blended $/1MExample request*vs no cache
0%$3.44$0.1375
50%$3.02$0.0813−41%
90%$2.68$0.0362−74%

*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates for this provider’s batch API. Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.

What a request costs

WorkloadInput tokensOutput tokensCost / requestCost / 1K requests
Short chat message500300$0.003625$3.62
Document summary8,0001,000$0.02$20.00
Codebase question (RAG)30,0002,000$0.0575$57.50
Long-context analysis150,0005,000$0.2375$237.50

Performance

Intelligence Index

25.8

AA composite quality

Coding Index

33.3

Math Index

87.7

Agentic Index

7.1

Output speed

146 tok/s

median

Time to first token

20.05s

median

Time to first answer

20.05s

after reasoning tokens

Artificial Analysis benchmarks

BenchmarkScore
MMLU-Pro86.2%
GPQA Diamond84.4%
Humanity's Last Exam21.1%
LiveCodeBench80.1%
SciCode42.8%
MATH-50096.7%
AIME88.7%
AIME 202587.7%
IFBench48.7%
AA-LCR (Long Context Reasoning)66.0%
Terminal-Bench Hard26.5%
Terminal-Bench 2.128.5%
τ²-Bench (Telecom)54.1%
τ³-Bench Banking9.3%

Design Arena Elo

CategoryElo
Website1,194
UI components1,186
Data viz1,283
3D1,141
Game dev1,171
Code categories1,187

Specs

Context window

1.05M

tokens

Max output

66K

tokens

Input modalities

text, image, file, audio, video

Tokenizer

Gemini