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Why use Gemini 2.5 Flash Live API on Google AI Studio?
Google AI Studio offers Gemini 2.5 Flash Live API with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.50/1M input tokens. Google AI Studio is a model prototyping environment and API access point for Gemini models, offering an inference playground for developers to test and build AI applications.
Input / 1M
$0.50
Output / 1M
$2.00
Cache
Not sourced
Batch
Not sourced
Setup recipe
Python + curlInstall
pip install google-genaiAuth
export GOOGLE_API_KEY=...Call
import os
from google import genai
client = genai.Client(api_key=os.environ["GOOGLE_API_KEY"])
response = client.models.generate_content(Model ID
gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025Request example
import os
from google import genai
client = genai.Client(api_key=os.environ["GOOGLE_API_KEY"])
response = client.models.generate_content(
model="gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025",
contents="Hello"
)
print(response.text)Gotchas
- Use the model name directly, e.g. "gemini-2.0-flash", "gemini-1.5-pro", or "gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06".
- The examples expect GOOGLE_API_KEY; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.50 |
| Output tokens | $2.00 |
Capabilities
VisionMultimodalJSON / Tool useAudio
About Gemini 2.5 Flash Live API
Gemini 2.5 Flash Live API is Google DeepMind's Gemini 2.5 model focused on audio understanding and generation. It offers a 128K-token context window.
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Model Specs
Released2025-12-01
Context128k
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2025-01