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Gemini API

Google's model API with a free tier whose prompts are used to improve Google's products; paid usage is per million tokens and stays private.

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Counts, not a score. 4 of 8 things we look for are published by Gemini API, and 4 we have not checked yet. A ratio would need a denominator from outside this site. A count does not.

What it costs you

What it really costs to startAll in, not the first-year promotional price.Free of charge on the Free tier, with free input and output tokens, Google AI Studio access and limited access to certain models; the catch is that free-tier content is used to improve Google's productsGemini Developer API pricing · source · checked 2026-09-12 · different for you?

What it costs to keep alivePer year, once the introductory pricing is over.Per 1M tokens in USD on the Paid tier: Gemini 3.8 Flash $0.75 input and $3.75 output through December 31, 2026, rising to $1.50 and $7.50 from January 1, 2027; Gemini 2.5 Flash $0.30 input, Flash-Lite $0.10, Gemini 2.5 Pro $1.25 input; Batch cuts the cost 50%Paid Tier, per 1M tokens in USD · source · checked 2026-09-12 · different for you?

The gate before the first cent

The gate before it pays anythingThe traffic, sales or balance you must reach before a single cent moves.Prepaid then pay-as-you-go billing to reach the Paid tier, which brings higher rate limits, context caching, the Batch API and Google's most advanced models, and stops your content being used to improve Google's productsPaid · source · checked 2026-09-12 · different for you?

How long before the first paymentThe gap you have to fund out of your own pocket.We have not checked this one yet. That is our gap, not theirs.

Is it yours or theirs

Who owns what you buildYours, or a room you are allowed to sit in until the rules change?On the Free tier your content is used to improve Google's products; on the Paid tier it is not, per the Used to improve our products row shown under every modelUsed to improve our products · source · checked 2026-09-12 · different for you?

Can you take it with youThe domain, the list, the content. What actually leaves with you.We have not checked this one yet. That is our gap, not theirs.

Can it be soldIs there a resale market, and what does it pay?We have not checked this one yet. That is our gap, not theirs.

What takes it all awayThe single rule, ban or dependency that ends it overnight.We have not checked this one yet. That is our gap, not theirs.

Put Gemini API next to something else

No article here covers Gemini API alongside another platform yet, so there is nothing to suggest. Pick your own pairing and the same questions get asked of each.

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How to read this page

The ten things above are not our idea of what matters. They are what the checklists in twenty hand-written articles on this site already asked, counted up: country and eligibility came first in nineteen of them, waiting time and what you are paid in came next. The payout minimum, the number most people search for, barely appeared. It is one row here, not the headline.

A row marked not publishedmeans we opened the company's own pages looking for it and it was not there. That is a finding, and it is dated. A row marked not checked yet means we have not done the work. Those two are kept apart on purpose: an empty box because we were slow should never look like an empty box because they were quiet.

Found something that has moved? Tell us. It gets checked against the source and the change is dated on the corrections page.

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