Google has officially revealed for its new AI powerhouse, Gemini 2.5 Pro, setting a new benchmark as the company’s most expensive and advanced AI model to date. Touted for its exceptional performance in coding, reasoning, and mathematics, Gemini 2.5 Pro supports prompts up to 200,000 tokens, enabling developers to input content longer than the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Gemini 2.5 Pro Pricing Breakdown
- Up to 200,000 tokens:
- $1.25 per million input tokens
- $10 per million output tokens
- Above 200,000 tokens:
- $2.50 per million input tokens
- $15 per million output tokens
How It Stacks Up Against Competitors
While Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google’s priciest model, it remains cheaper than some top-tier rivals like:
- OpenAI GPT-4.5: $75/million input, $150/million output
- Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet: $3/million input, $15/million output
It’s notably more expensive than:
- Gemini 2.0 Flash: $0.10/million input, $0.40/million output
- OpenAI o3-mini: $1.10/million input, $4.40/million output
- DeepSeek R1: $0.55/million input, $2.19/million output
Demand Surging Despite Pricing
Despite its premium cost, Gemini 2.5 Pro has seen explosive adoption. Google CEO Sundar Pichai reported an 80% spike in developer usage on both the and AI Studio platforms this month. Industry insiders believe rising costs reflect growing computational demands and developer enthusiasm for frontier models with reasoning capabilities.
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