How much does Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 cost per million tokens?

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens at list price, and $0.125 per million cached input tokens.

What is the context window of Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05?

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 accepts up to 1,048,576 tokens of context and returns up to 65,536 output tokens.

How much do 1,000 chat messages cost with Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05?

About $6.25, assuming 1,000 input + 500 output tokens per message.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05?

In the same price range, OpenAI GPT-6 Luna Pro ($0.1 / $0.5), OpenAI GPT-6 Luna ($0.1 / $0.5), SpaceXAI Grok 4.7 ($2 / $6) cost less per token. Quality differs: test on your own prompts.

Where can I buy Google API credits for less?

Discount credit books resell OpenRouter usage below face value within their depth, OpenRouter adds a 5.5% card fee, and Google sells its own credits at face value. The live table on this page ranks them for $100 of usage.

Google · live price

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 API pricing

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...

Mid-range ($1–5 per 1M)Tool callingReasoningfile inputimage inputaudio input

Input: $1.25; per 1M tokens
Output: $10; per 1M tokens
Cached input: $0.125; per 1M tokens
Context: 1.0M; 66K max output

List price from OpenRouter, which passes Google's price through without markup. Refreshed hourly. Released June 5, 2025. Model id google/gemini-2.5-pro-preview.

What Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 costs in practice

At list price, before any batch or caching discount.

1,000 chat messages

$6.25

1,000 input + 500 output tokens each

1,000 RAG questions

$15.00

8,000 input + 500 output tokens each

100 coding-agent steps

$5.75

30,000 input + 2,000 output tokens each, no caching

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 price history

No price change since we started tracking on 2026-10-01. We record prices daily; changes will show here.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 price by host

Google AI Studio serves it below list price right now. Route to it to pay less on every token.

Google AI Studio$0.625 in · $5 out · 1.0M ctx · 99.4% uptime 24h
Google$1.25 in · $10 out · 1.0M ctx · 96.6% uptime 24h

Where to buy Google credits for less

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 costs the same per token everywhere it's sold through OpenRouter. What changes is the price of the credits. Live quotes for $100 of usage:

#	Where you buy	You payYou pay for $100.00 of usage	vs list price	Price source
1	OrbioCardCheapest right now Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee and card processing, both included in the quote.	$85.10 incl. $2.60 card processing	-14.9%	live quote
2	smaaartCard Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee on face value. Card processing and taxes shown at checkout.	$95.00 + card processing and tax at checkout (not in this number)	-5.0%	live quote
3	Direct from the labCard Prepaid credits at face value (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google…). Taxes may apply.	$100.00 no top-up fee	list price	face value
4	OpenRouterCrypto 5% on crypto purchases. No markup on model prices.	$105.00 fees included	+5.0%	published fee
5	OpenRouterCard 5.5% on card purchases, $0.80 minimum. No markup on model prices.	$105.50 fees included	+5.5%	published fee

Disclosure: this site is run by the team behind smaaart, one of the options compared. Tables are ranked by price only, from live quotes and published fees, including when smaaart isn't first. How we compare

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 cost calculator

Enter your monthly tokens to price your own usage.

Model$1.25 in / $10.00 out per 1M tokens · list price, liveInput tokens / month (millions)Output tokens / month (millions)

Usage at list price$162.50/ month(quotes below are for $163.00: purchases run from $5.00 to $10,000.00)

Cheaper alternatives to Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05

Other labs' models in the same price range or the one below, cheaper per token.

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.7	$2	$6	$3	500K
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash	$0.15	$0.47	$0.23	1M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashX	$0.37	$1.25	$0.59	1.0M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	$0.03	$0.5	$0.147	1.0M

Other Google models

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Gemma 3 4B	$0.05	$0.1	$0.063	131K
Gemma 3 12B	$0.05	$0.15	$0.075	131K
Gemma 3 27B	$0.08	$0.45	$0.172	131K
Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)	$0.3	$2.50	$0.85	33K
Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)	$2	$12	$4.50	66K
Gemini 3 Flash Preview	$0.5	$3	$1.13	1.0M

All Google API prices