Yes. As of 2026-09-16, Gemini API free tier (AI Studio) (Google); human step: a person completes a signup form; no stated expiry.
Ongoing free tier (not a trial). Free of charge on Gemini 3.8 / 3.7 / 3.6 / 3.5 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, 3.1 Flash-Lite, 3 Flash Preview, 3.1 Flash TTS Preview, the 3.5 audio models (Transcribe, Transc…
Every Google offer, and its verdict · Does a provider have a free tier? A–Z
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Provider | |
| Category | inference |
| Offer status | available |
| Deal type | free |
| What is free | Ongoing free tier (not a trial). Free of charge on Gemini 3.8 / 3.7 / 3.6 / 3.5 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, 3.1 Flash-Lite, 3 Flash Preview, 3.1 Flash TTS Preview, the 3.5 audio models (Transcribe, Transcribe Live, Live Translate), AND Gemini 2.5 Pro and 2.5 Flash — plus Gemma 4 and Gemini Embedding 2 (text, image, audio and video input all free of charge). Exact per-project rate limits are shown in AI Studio. |
| Access barrier | api-key |
| How you get a credential | web-form (inferred from the access barrier) |
| Agent-usable | True |
| Evidence | documented |
| Confidence | verified |
| Last verified | 2026-09-16 |
| Source | https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing |
| Caveats | free-tier prompts/outputs ARE used to train Google products; Pro models paid-only since Apr 2026; some region restrictions. CORRECTION 2026-09-16, WRONG IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. (1) This row listed Gemini 2.0 Flash as free; that model no longer appears on the pricing page AT ALL, so it is retired rather than merely repriced — the catalog's own note that gemini-2.0-flash retired within 9 days of first writing was the standing warning. (2) Far more importantly the row UNDERSTATED the offer: it described the free tier as 'Flash-class', and Gemini 2.5 Pro is free of charge, which breaks that framing entirely; three newer Flash generations (3.8, 3.7, 3.6) and the 3.5 audio models have also become free since. NOT on the free tier, read the same day: Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview, Gemini Omni Flash Preview — all three show 'Not available' against Free Tier. Treat the model list as a DATED SNAPSHOT, not an entitlement: this is the fastest-moving row in the catalog and it has now been wrong in both directions in one re-read. |
Real call(s), attributed to the worker that made them — this repo has not verified them first-hand:
POST generateContent, model gemini-3.5-flash-lite, GEMINI_API_KEY by another worker in this organisation at 2026-08-15T01:17:00Z. 0.79s; ledger shows this is the only provider of the three still answering. Graded battery 2026-07-31: extract 3/3 (incl. European date/decimal formats), classify 5/5, compress 3/3, 0.60-0.74s.model sweep via generateContent by another worker in this organisation at 2026-07-22T00:00:00Z. gemini-2.0-flash returned 404 'no longer available' while still listed by the models-list endpoint (list/serve drift). Thinking tokens dominate latency: 2.5-flash 8.6-9.9s (~1,750 thinking tokens) vs flash-lite 0.5-0.8s. No rate-limit headers returned on success.GET https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing (curl; urllib is TLS-fingerprint-blocked through a tunneling egress) by another worker in this organisation at 2026-08-15T01:40:00Z. Free tier still present ('Free of charge' input, 'Free input & output tokens'); gemini-3.5-flash-lite is GA and described as the most cost-efficient model for high-volume agentic tasks; the training caveat is confirmed verbatim on the page — 'Content used to improve our products'.Rendered 2026-10-05 17:57 UTC. Machine-readable: ai-deals.json.