Gemini
GoogleGemini 4 Argon is Google's new flagship reasoning model, with introductory API rates through November 30.
Google made Gemini 4 Argon generally available on October 13, 2026. Its Standard API rate is $2/$0.10/$10 per M input/cached-input/output tokens through November 30, then $4/$0.20/$20 from December 1. Batch and Flex are half of Standard; Priority is 1.8x. The 1M-token context supports up to 1M output tokens through background long decode, while synchronous requests default to a 65,536-token output limit. Caching is implicit only, with a 95% cached-input discount.
Gemini 3.8 Flash remains the leading model in Google's Flash family for long-horizon software engineering, agentic and multimodal work. Google publishes $0.75/M input, $0.075/M cached, $3.75/M output through 2026-12-31, reverting to $1.50/$0.15/$7.50 on 2027-01-01. Batch, Flex and Priority service tiers are modeled at their published prices, and the model has a 1M-token context window with 65,536 maximum output tokens. Google now routes Gemini 3.7 Flash requests to 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash requests to 3.6 Flash, so the deprecated aliases are not listed as separate price lanes.
Pricing
per 1M tokens · USD / CHF| Model | Tier / Host | Context | Input | Cached | Output | Confidence |
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Gemini 4 Argon Google's flagship reasoning model, generally available since October 13, 2026. Standard API rates are $2/$0.10/$10 per M input/cached-input/output tokens through November 30, then $4/$0.20/$20 from December 1. Batch and Flex are half of Standard; Priority is 1.8x. Implicit caching only; explicit caching is unsupported. The default synchronous output limit is 65,536 tokens; background long decode supports up to 1,048,576 output tokens, limited by the shared context window. | Foundry ·Global | 1.0M 1.0M max out | $2.00CHF 1.61 | $0.10CHF 0.081 | $10.00CHF 8.05 | official Google Gemini API release notes, checked 2026-10-14, mark Gemini 4 Argon (`gemini-4-argon`) generally available on October 13. Google's Gemini 4 Argon model page, checked 2026-10-14, gives a 1,048,576-token shared context window, 65,536 default synchronous output limit, and up to 1,048,576 output tokens with background long decode. The Gemini API pricing page, captured 2026-10-14, lists Standard at $2/M input, $0.10/M cached input, and $10/M output through November 30, 2026, then $4/$0.20/$20 from December 1; Batch and Flex are half of Standard, and Priority is 1.8x. Caching is implicit only and Google says explicit caching is unsupported. A full Azure Retail Prices Foundry feed sweep and exact `gemini` meter search on 2026-10-14 returned no Google/Gemini token meter, so this is a Direct API lane with no Foundry rate inferred. |
Standard (from December 1) begins 1 Dec UTC Standard (from December 1)$4.00 / $0.20 / $20.00Batch$1.00 / $0.05 / $5.00Batch (from December 1)$2.00 / $0.10 / $10.00Flex$1.00 / $0.05 / $5.00Flex (from December 1)$2.00 / $0.10 / $10.00Priority$3.60 / $0.18 / $18.00Priority (from December 1)$7.20 / $0.36 / $36.00 | ||||||
Gemini 3.8 Flash New flagship Flash model for long-horizon coding and autonomous agents. Introductory Standard rate is $0.75/$0.075/$3.75 per M through 2026-12-31, reverting to $1.50/$0.15/$7.50 on 2027-01-01. Google also publishes separate Batch, Flex and Priority rates below; cache storage is a separate hourly charge and is not modeled. | Foundry ·Global | 1.0M 65.5K max out | $0.75CHF 0.604 | $0.075CHF 0.06 | $3.75CHF 3.02 | official Google Gemini API pricing page (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing), captured 2026-09-05: Standard publishes $0.75/M input, $0.075/M cached input and $3.75/M output through December 31, 2026, then $1.50/$0.15/$7.50 from January 1, 2027; Batch, Flex and Priority are modeled as service-tier variants below. Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash model page (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.8-flash) publishes an input limit of 1,048,576 tokens and output limit of 65,536 tokens. The separate cache-storage price is not part of this token-rate schema. |
Standard (from 2027) begins 1 Jan 2027 UTC Standard (from 2027)$1.50 / $0.15 / $7.50Batch$0.375 / $0.037 / $1.88Batch (from 2027)$0.75 / $0.075 / $3.75Flex$0.375 / $0.037 / $1.88Flex (from 2027)$0.75 / $0.075 / $3.75Priority$1.35 / $0.135 / $6.75Priority (from 2027)$2.70 / $0.27 / $13.50 | ||||||
Gemini 3.6 Flash Promotional rate (50% off standard pricing) through 2026-12-31; reverts to $1.50/$0.15/$7.50 per M on 2027-01-01. | Foundry ·Global | — | $0.75CHF 0.604 | $0.075CHF 0.06 | $3.75CHF 3.02 | official Gemini API pricing page (ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing), captured 2026-08-14; page stamped "Last updated 2026-08-13 UTC" and publishes the reversion date inline per price cell, verbatim: "$0.75 through December 31, 2026.$1.50 starting January 1, 2027." Also bills a separate cache-storage dimension at $1.00 per 1M tokens per hour, not modeled by this schema. Batch/Flex bill at exactly 50% of Standard and Priority at exactly 1.8x, in both the current and post-reversion periods — now modeled as service-tier variants below. |
Standard (from 2027) begins 1 Jan 2027 UTC Standard (from 2027)$1.50 / $0.15 / $7.50Batch$0.375 / $0.037 / $1.88Batch (from 2027)$0.75 / $0.075 / $3.75Flex$0.375 / $0.037 / $1.88Flex (from 2027)$0.75 / $0.075 / $3.75Priority$1.35 / $0.135 / $6.75Priority (from 2027)$2.70 / $0.27 / $13.50 | ||||||