Price an article on Gemini Pro, Flash and Flash-Lite, including the promotional rates and the 200K context threshold.
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Base text-token estimate, not an invoice. Excludes reasoning beyond the word estimate, output overshoot, cache writes/storage, tools, regional surcharges and editing. Unsupported tiers use Standard and say so. Check the calculation assumptions and budget for human editing.
One 1,500-word article costs $0.00082 on Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, Google's cheapest tracked model, and $0.0242 on Gemini 3.1 Pro, its most expensive. On Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, Batch costs $0.00041 at these assumptions.
This is a price ranking, not a writing-quality recommendation. Check the model-selection guide and real AI-written article examples before deciding what fits your editorial workflow.
One draft, a 250-word brief, 20% prompt overhead. Change any of it in the calculator.
| Model | 500w | 1,000w | 1,500w | 2,000w | 3,000w |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | $0.00030 | $0.00056 | $0.00082 | $0.00108 | $0.00160 |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite | $0.00107 | $0.00205 | $0.00302 | $0.00400 | $0.00595 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | $0.00174 | $0.00337 | $0.00499 | $0.00662 | $0.00987 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | $0.00174 | $0.00337 | $0.00499 | $0.00662 | $0.00987 |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | $0.00273 | $0.00517 | $0.00760 | $0.0100 | $0.0149 |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash | $0.00273 | $0.00517 | $0.00760 | $0.0100 | $0.0149 |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | $0.00273 | $0.00517 | $0.00760 | $0.0100 | $0.0149 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | $0.00643 | $0.0123 | $0.0181 | $0.0240 | $0.0357 |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | $0.00699 | $0.0135 | $0.0200 | $0.0265 | $0.0395 |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | $0.00858 | $0.0164 | $0.0242 | $0.0320 | $0.0476 |
Cheapest first. These are list rates applied to a token model — see the methodology for exactly where that diverges from an invoice.
The 1,000w column is the per-1,000-words figure people quote: $0.00056 on Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite at these settings.
Providers do not price the same way, and the differences change which model wins.
Google's lineup is the most aggressive at the cheap end: the Flash and Flash-Lite tiers are priced for volume, and Flash-Lite is among the least expensive ways to generate a full-length draft from any provider. The trade is a wider output premium — output typically costs eight times input, against five times on Claude.
Google offers Standard, Flex and Batch. Flex and Batch are both half price — Flex runs synchronously with slower scheduling, Batch asynchronously within 24 hours — so the decision is simply whether the job can wait. Some Gemini models keep the Standard cache-read rate on both. Google's 1.8× Priority tier is not modeled here.
The Pro models change rate above 200K input tokens — well under the 1M window they advertise. The rates below are the under-threshold rates, which is what an article workflow pays; the footnotes give the higher figures. This catches people who assume a 1M window means one price for 1M tokens.
Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.7 Flash and Gemini 3.6 Flash are on promotional rates that end 2026-12-31, after which they roughly double. They are attractive precisely because of that discount, so treat any annual budget built on them as provisional and re-check the footnotes below.
Every gallery below includes an unedited Gemini 2.5 Flash draft, published blind with a current-rate cost comparison. The model and the price stay hidden until you reveal them, so this page can name who took part without spoiling which draft is which.
USD per million tokens, cheapest output first.
| Model | Input | Cached in | Output | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | $0.10 | $0.010 | $0.40 | 1,000K |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Text, image and video input rate; audio input is $0.50. | $0.25 | $0.025 | $1.50 | 1,000K |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | $0.30 | $0.030 | $2.50 | 1,000K |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | $0.30 | $0.030 | $2.50 | 1,000K |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash Promotional rate through 2026-12-31; $1.50 / $7.50 from 2027-01-01. | $0.75 | $0.075 | $3.75 | 1,000K |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash Promotional rate through 2026-12-31; $1.50 / $7.50 from 2027-01-01. | $0.75 | $0.075 | $3.75 | 1,000K |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash Promotional rate through 2026-12-31; $1.50 / $7.50 from 2027-01-01. | $0.75 | $0.075 | $3.75 | 1,000K |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | $1.50 | $0.150 | $9.00 | 1,000K |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro Rate shown is for prompts up to 200K tokens; $2.50 / $15.00 above that. | $1.25 | $0.125 | $10.00 | 1,000K |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Rate shown is for prompts up to 200K tokens; $4.00 / $18.00 above that. | $2.00 | $0.200 | $12.00 | 1,000K |
Source: Google's published pricing. Compare against the other providers on the full pricing table.
Answers specific to this provider's rate structure.
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the cheapest tracked Gemini model for a full draft, and among the cheapest from any provider. The Flash and Flash-Lite tiers are Google’s volume play and are priced accordingly.
The Pro models change rate above 200K input tokens, despite advertising a 1M window. The rates on this page are the under-threshold rates, which is what an article workflow pays. The advertised context and the single-rate context are not the same number, which catches a lot of people budgeting from the headline figure.
No. Three Flash models are on promotional rates that expire, after which they double. They are attractive largely because of that discount, so an annual budget built on them should be treated as provisional. The footnotes on this page give the post-promotional figures.
Yes. Batch input and output are 50% off on every tracked Gemini model, and Google also sells Flex — slower synchronous processing — at the same half price. Some models keep the Standard cache-read rate on both. Google’s 1.8× Priority tier is not modeled here.
At the volume end they are close, and which one wins moves with promotional rates. Gemini carries a wider output premium — output averages over six times input — which matters more for article writing than for chat, because a draft is almost entirely output.
Price your workflow here, then check it against the other providers before committing. At article volumes the difference between two reasonable models is usually smaller than a single hour of editing. When the work can run asynchronously, compare Gemini's batch rate — not its standard rate — against DeepSeek, where no Batch tier is published. DeepSeek instead offers a separate off-peak discount.