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Google has expanded access to Gemini 2.5 Pro, its latest AI flagship model, emphasizing its strong performance and competitive pricing. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai called Gemini 2.5 Pro Google's "most intelligent model + now our most in demand," reflecting an 80 percent increase in demand this month alone across both Google AI Studio and the Gemini API. Users can now access an expanded public preview with higher usage limits, including a free tier option, while Gemini Web Chat users can continue accessing the 2.5 Pro Experimental model, which should deliver equivalent performance. Additional announcements are expected at Google's Cloud Next '25 conference on April 9.
Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro is significantly cheaper than competing models such as Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-4o. For prompts up to 200,000 tokens, input costs $1.25 per million tokens, with output at $10. Larger prompts increase to $2.50 and $15 per million tokens respectively. This pricing has surprised social media users, with some noting that it's "about to get wild" given the model's capabilities. Google also offers free grounding with Google Search for up to 500 queries per day in the free tier, followed by 1,500 additional free queries in the paid tier, however data from the free tier can be used for AI training, while data from the paid tier cannot.
Independent testing by the AI research group EpochAI validates Google's benchmark results, as Gemini 2.5 Pro scored 84% on the GPQA Diamond benchmark, notably higher than human experts' typical 70% score. Ben Dickson from VentureBeat declared Gemini 2.5 Pro may be the “most useful reasoning model yet.” The model is also highly regarded for OCR, audio transcription, and long-context coding. Effectively pricing reasoning models is becoming the next big battleground for AI model developers, and Google's move with Gemini 2.5 Pro is a significant step in that direction.
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Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro is significantly cheaper than competing models such as Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-4o. For prompts up to 200,000 tokens, input costs $1.25 per million tokens, with output at $10. Larger prompts increase to $2.50 and $15 per million tokens respectively. This pricing has surprised social media users, with some noting that it's "about to get wild" given the model's capabilities. Google also offers free grounding with Google Search for up to 500 queries per day in the free tier, followed by 1,500 additional free queries in the paid tier, however data from the free tier can be used for AI training, while data from the paid tier cannot.
Independent testing by the AI research group EpochAI validates Google's benchmark results, as Gemini 2.5 Pro scored 84% on the GPQA Diamond benchmark, notably higher than human experts' typical 70% score. Ben Dickson from VentureBeat declared Gemini 2.5 Pro may be the “most useful reasoning model yet.” The model is also highly regarded for OCR, audio transcription, and long-context coding. Effectively pricing reasoning models is becoming the next big battleground for AI model developers, and Google's move with Gemini 2.5 Pro is a significant step in that direction.
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- Simon Willison's Weblog: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview pricing
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