Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06
Google · released May 7, 2025
- Type
- Closed
- Input
- $1.00
- Output
- $20.00
- Cached
- None held
List price · per 1M tokens · Google AI at 8K context · machine-readable source ↗
Our take
Written Sep 2, 2026Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google's flagship reasoning model that accepts text, images, files, audio and video in a single request, with a one-million-token limit. Its throughput-graded pricing lets you trade speed for cost, though we hold no measured quality scores for it yet.
Pick this for massive-context document or video analysis where the one-million-token limit matters, or for multimodal workloads where you can accept lower throughput to cut cost. Use the mid-tier for production work at 65–73 tokens per second. Skip it if you need verified benchmark scores to compare quality, or if the premium high-throughput tier is too expensive for your budget.
The case for it
- One-million-token request limit among the largest we track, suited to long-document and video understanding.
- Broad multimodal input in one model: text, images, files, audio and video.
- Throughput-graded pricing lets users trade speed for cost: five times the throughput for twice the price between tiers.
The case against it
- Premium high-throughput tier is slower and costs more than the mid-tier, with no clear quality gain.
- No benchmark scores, Elo ratings or task scores in our data, so quality is unverified.
How good is it?
We hold no score for this model.
So there is no figure here for everyday use, coding, agent work or writing. That is a gap in our data, not a low score.
Where to rent it
Prices checked between 2 hours and 8 hours ago — each listing carries its own date.
Google AI Studio, through OpenRouter
Why this differs from the header. The strip above quotes Google AI's own list price; this is the cheapest live offer, whoever is serving it — a reseller undercutting a lab is ordinary commerce, not an error.
- per 1M tokens
- $1.25 in / $10.00 out
- Context served
- 1M
- Throughput
- ~71 tok/s
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google AI Studioflex tierThrough OpenRouter | $0.63 / $5.00checked 2 hours ago | 1M66K max reply | 105 tok/s | No | Yes55 days | Unknown |
| Google Vertex AIusThrough OpenRouter | $1.25 / $10.00checked 2 hours ago | 1M66K max reply | 64 tok/s | No | No | Unknown |
| Google Vertex AIeuThrough OpenRouter | $1.25 / $10.00checked 8 hours ago | 1M66K max reply | 70 tok/s | No | No | Unknown |
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | $1.25 / $10.00checked 2 hours ago | 1M | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Google Vertex AIglobalThrough OpenRouter | $1.25 / $10.00checked 2 hours ago | 1M66K max reply | 74 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| Google AI StudioThrough OpenRouter | $1.25 / $10.00checked 2 hours ago | 1M66K max reply | 71 tok/s | No | Yes55 days | Unknown |
| Google AI Studiopriority tierThrough OpenRouter | $2.25 / $18.00checked 2 hours ago | 1M66K max reply | 69 tok/s | No | Yes55 days | Unknown |
| Google Vertex AIpriority tierglobalThrough OpenRouter | $2.25 / $18.00checked 2 hours ago | 1M66K max reply | 91 tok/s | No | No | Unknown |
| Google AIDirect | $1.00 / $20.00checked 2 hours ago | 8K16K max reply | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
Google Vertex AI
OpenRouterAcross the 9 listings we hold: 7 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 2 do not say. 1 appears 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 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Vertex AIusThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Vertex AIeuThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Vertex AIglobalThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google AI StudioThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google AI StudiopriorityThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Vertex AIpriority · globalThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google AIDirect |
Tool calling: 8 of 9 listings say yes, 1 publishes no parameter list. JSON output: 8 of 9 listings say yes, 1 publishes no parameter list. Strict schema: 8 of 9 listings say yes, 1 publishes no parameter list.
Models people weigh against Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06
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
- No independent board has scored it, so we hold no quality figures at all.
- 1 of 9 listings publishes no parameter list, so what its API accepts is unknown to us.
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 2 of 9 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-preview-05-06