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Google doubles Gemini API prices for top models in December and January

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Google is increasing the API costs for its Gemini models, with Gemini 4 Argon doubling in price on December 1st and Gemini 3.8 Flash set to double on January 1st. These price hikes, which were not widely announced, will affect users who rely on these models for various tasks. The author highlights that input tokens often constitute the majority of the cost, and suggests exploring cheaper alternatives like Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite or considering the Batch API for non-urgent tasks, which can effectively cancel out the price increase. AI

IMPACT Increased operational costs for developers using Gemini APIs may necessitate re-evaluation of model choices or optimization strategies.

RANK_REASON Price increase for an existing API service.

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Google doubles Gemini API prices for top models in December and January

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Mohamed Abidi ·

    Gemini API cost: two prices double before January

    <p>If you picked Gemini 4 Argon this year because it cost the same as Claude Sonnet, check Google's pricing page again. On December 1, Argon goes from $2 to $4 per million input tokens and from $10 to $20 per million output tokens. Same model, same traffic, twice the invoice.</p>…

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