Gemini 2.5 Pro
Google · released Jun 17, 2025
- Type
- Closed
- Input
- $1.25
- Output
- $10.00
- Cached
- None held
List price · per 1M tokens · Google AI at 1M context · machine-readable source ↗
Our take
Written Sep 2, 2026Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google's flagship reasoning model that handles up to one million tokens in a single request across text, images, audio, video and files. It scores strongly on human preference leaderboards for coding, creative writing and difficult instructions, though its weights are not available for download.
Choose this for long-document or multimodal analysis at million-token scale, competitive programming, or creative writing and hard-prompt tasks. Use Google AI Studio for budget prototyping, or Vertex for higher throughput. Skip it if you need to self-host, do web development, or want measured real-world software engineering above 53.6%.
The case for it
- Strong across diverse human-preference arenas: 1465.3 on coding, 1458.1 on hard prompts, 1442.7 on creative writing.
- One-million-token request limit with text, image, file, audio and video input.
- 84.3% on LiveCodeBench, near the top of measured models on contamination-free competitive programming.
- Wide price-performance range from the same provider, from slower budget tiers to 97 tps on Vertex.
The case against it
- Real-world software engineering lags its coding-arena strength: 53.6% on SWE-bench versus 84.3% LiveCodeBench.
- Web development specifically is a weak spot, 239.9 points below its general coding arena score.
- Proprietary weights with no self-hosting option and undisclosed parameter count.
How good is it?
A text model from Google for drafting and editing prose, with no measured weak spots on this board.
- drafts, rewrites and editingArena Creative Writing · 34th of 168
EverydayGeneral questions and everyday reasoning
Arena Text (overall)53rd of 168 · 1446
CodingWriting and fixing code on its own
Arena Coding79th of 168 · 1464
AgenticPlanning, calling tools, staying on task
Not yet scored on Arena Agent. It is on SWE-bench Verified, in 27th of 42 with 53.6.
WritingDrafting and rewriting prose
Arena Creative Writing34th of 168 · 1443
Arena Creative Writing is the only board that has scored it for this.
These tests check whether a model follows instructions — a precondition for all the work above, but not a measure of how well that work is done.
Every published score for this model9 scoresEvery figure we hold, from 9 boards, with who ran it and a link to the source — including the boards no rating above is built on.
Where to rent it
Prices checked between 59 min and 7 hours ago — each listing carries its own date.
Google AI, direct
The lab is the cheapest at this context. The strip above and this offer are the same one, compared at 1M of context. One cheaper row below is outside that comparison: a non-standard pricing tier.
- per 1M tokens
- $1.25 in / $10.00 out
- Context served
- 1M
- Throughput
- Not measured
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google AI Studioflex tierThrough OpenRouter | $0.63 / $5.00checked 1 hour ago | 1M66K max reply | 105 tok/s | No | Yes55 days | Unknown |
| DeepInfraDirect | $1.25 / $10.00checked 1 hour ago | 1M | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Google AIDirect | $1.25 / $10.00checked 59 min ago | 1M66K max reply | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Google Vertex AIeuThrough OpenRouter | $1.25 / $10.00checked 7 hours ago | 1M66K max reply | 70 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| Google Vertex AIglobalThrough OpenRouter | $1.25 / $10.00checked 1 hour ago | 1M66K max reply | 74 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | $1.25 / $10.00checked 1 hour ago | 1M | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Google Vertex AIusThrough OpenRouter | $1.25 / $10.00checked 1 hour ago | 1M66K max reply | 64 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| Google AI StudioThrough OpenRouter | $1.25 / $10.00checked 1 hour ago | 1M66K max reply | 71 tok/s | No | Yes55 days | Unknown |
| Google Vertex AIpriority tierglobalThrough OpenRouter | $2.25 / $18.00checked 1 hour ago | 1M66K max reply | 91 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| Google AI Studiopriority tierThrough OpenRouter | $2.25 / $18.00checked 1 hour ago | 1M66K max reply | 69 tok/s | No | Yes55 days | Unknown |
Google AI Studio
DeepInfra
Google Vertex AI
OpenRouterAcross the 10 listings we hold: 7 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 3 do not say. 4 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google AI StudioflexThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DeepInfraDirect | |||
| Google AIDirect | |||
| Google Vertex AIeuThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Vertex AIglobalThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Vertex AIusThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google AI StudioThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Vertex AIpriority · globalThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google AI StudiopriorityThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Tool calling: 8 of 10 listings say yes, 2 publish no parameter list. JSON output: 8 of 10 listings say yes, 2 publish no parameter list. Strict schema: 8 of 10 listings say yes, 2 publish no parameter list.
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When we formed this view
Recent changes
What moved
first indexed by our pipelineEach date is the day we first saw the change, or the day the maker announced it.
What we do not know about this model yet
- 2 of 10 listings publish no parameter list, so what their API accepts is unknown to us.
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 3 of 10 listings do not say whether they train on prompts.
- We hold no batch or off-peak rate for any of its listings.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
We hold no licence record for this model, and no record of published weights either — so we can neither summarise its terms nor point you at the weights.
Identifiers
- Takes in, gives back
- Text, images, audio, video and documents in, text out
- Catalogue slug
- google-gemini-2-5-pro