When do Gemini Flash prices increase?
January 1, 2027. Google's published pricing page lists the new rates — $1.50 per 1M input tokens and $7.50 per 1M output tokens — effective from that date.
Price deadline · January 1, 2027
Gemini Flash prices double on Jan 1, 2027
Per Google's published pricing page, Gemini Flash input prices rise from $0.75 to $1.50 per 1M tokens — output from $3.75 to $7.50 — on January 1, 2027. This page tracks the live per-million rates for the whole Flash family and the cheaper alternatives.
What changes on January 1, 2027
The numbers below are Google's published first-party API rates — not estimates.
Input price
$0.75 → $1.50
per 1M tokens
Output price
$3.75 → $7.50
per 1M tokens
Effective date
Jan 1, 2027
per Google's pricing page
From that date, the same million-token workload costs twice as much at Gemini Flash's published rates. Workloads that keep calling the API unchanged pay the new price from January 1 onward.
Live prices: Gemini Flash family vs cheaper alternatives
Prices update automatically from our catalog — the same data behind the comparison and rankings pages.
| Model | Provider | Input | Output | Context | Capabilities | Best for | Latency | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek-V4.1-Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-1-flash | DeepSeek | $0.3 / 1M tokens | $1.18 / 1M tokens | 1M | Streaming | Chinese Q&A, general chat | 0-0ms | Catalog | Platform curated |
| GLM-5z-ai/glm-5 | Z Ai | Starting at $0.58 / 1M tokens | $2.58 / 1M tokens | 198k | StreamingTool callingJSON modeLong context | General chat via Z Ai, API workloads | 0-0ms | Catalog | Platform curated |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (Nano Banana 2)gemini/gemini-3.1-flash-image | Gemini | $0.151 / image | — | — | StreamingVision | image understanding, multimodal chat | 0-0ms | Catalog | Platform curated |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image(Nano Banana 2 Lite)gemini/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image | Gemini | $0.0336 / image | — | — | StreamingVision | image understanding, multimodal chat | 0-0ms | Catalog | Platform curated |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Litegoogle/gemini-3.1-flash-lite | $0.25 / 1M tokens | $1.50 / 1M tokens | 1M | StreamingTool callingJSON modeVision | image understanding, multimodal chat | 0-0ms | Catalog | Platform curated | |
| Gemini 3.5 Flashgoogle/gemini-3.5-flash | $1.50 / 1M tokens | $9 / 1M tokens | 1M | StreamingTool callingJSON modeVision | image understanding, multimodal chat | 0-0ms | Catalog | Platform curated | |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Litegoogle/gemini-3.5-flash-lite | $0.3 / 1M tokens | $2.50 / 1M tokens | 1M | StreamingTool callingJSON modeVision | image understanding, multimodal chat | 0-0ms | Catalog | Platform curated | |
| Gemini 3.6 Flashgoogle/gemini-3.6-flash | $1.50 / 1M tokens | $7.50 / 1M tokens | 1M | StreamingTool callingJSON modeVision | image understanding, multimodal chat | 0-0ms | Catalog | Platform curated | |
| Gemini 3.7 Flashgoogle/gemini-3.7-flash | $1.50 / 1M tokens | $7.50 / 1M tokens | 1M | StreamingTool callingJSON modeVision | image understanding, multimodal chat | 0-0ms | Catalog | Platform curated | |
| Gemini 3.8 Flashgoogle/gemini-3.8-flash | $0.75 / 1M tokens | $3.75 / 1M tokens | 1M | StreamingTool callingJSON modeVision | image understanding, multimodal chat | 0-0ms | Catalog | Platform curated |
Per 1M tokens. CNY-listed upstreams are converted at our display rate. Google's 2027 rates per its pricing page. Source: Google pricing page
Every Gemini Flash SKU, one link each
The full Flash family in our catalog — open any model page for its live rates.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (Nano Banana 2)
Gemini · — context
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image(Nano Banana 2 Lite)
Gemini · — context
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Google · 1M context
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Google · 1M context
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Google · 1M context
Gemini 3.6 Flash
Google · 1M context
Gemini 3.7 Flash
Google · 1M context
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Google · 1M context
FAQ
Gemini Flash price increase, answered
How much are Gemini Flash prices going up?
Per Google's published pricing page, input prices double from $0.75 to $1.50 per 1M tokens, and output prices rise from $3.75 to $7.50 per 1M tokens. The table above shows current per-million rates from our live catalog.
What are cheaper alternatives to Gemini Flash?
DeepSeek and GLM run comparable workloads at roughly an order of magnitude lower cost per million tokens. The live comparison table above lists current prices for both, next to the Flash family.
Does the price increase change how my NextModel API key works?
No. Your key, your integration, and the monthly hard cap keep working exactly the same. Per-model prices in our catalog track the upstream change, so the price shown on each model page is always the currently effective one.
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