Google · AI model API pricing

How much does Gemini 3.5 Flash cost?

Google's current workhorse — undercuts every same-generation mid tier from OpenAI and Anthropic.

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What that means per month

Standard on-demand rates from Google's official pricing page, last checked 2026-07-28. Batch runs at 50% of these rates. Monthly figures exclude caching and batch discounts. Confirm live pricing before committing.

Where Gemini 3.5 Flash sits on price

At the reference month of 10M input and 3M output tokens, Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $42, which makes it the 22nd cheapest of the 30 models tracked here. That is 25× the price of Qwen-Flash, the cheapest model at this mix ($1.70). Among the 11 mid-tier models it ranks 9th, behind MiniMax M3 at $6.60.

Cache economics

Cached input on Gemini 3.5 Flash bills at $0.15 per 1M — 10% of its own input rate, against a 10% median across the models here that publish a cached-read price. 2 models discount cached reads more steeply than this. On the reference month, serving 80% of that input from cache takes the input side of the bill from $15 to $4.20, leaving output untouched at $27 — which is why a high reuse rate changes the ranking above rather than just shaving the total.

Cache reads only. Writes are billed separately by some providers and are excluded here — see the rate note above for Google's terms. Try it at your own hit rate on the AI cost calculator.

Cheaper alternatives

At a reference workload of 10M input / 3M output tokens a month, these cost less than Gemini 3.5 Flash ($42/mo):

• Grok 4.5 $38/mo
• Grok 4.6 $38/mo
• Mistral Medium 3.5 $37.5/mo

Gemini 3.5 Flash head-to-head