Using Gemini 2.5 Flash Live API on Google AI Studio

Implementation guide · Gemini 2.5 · Google DeepMind

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Google AI Studio exposes Gemini 2.5 Flash Live API through model ID gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at Google AI Studio and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Google AI Studio SDK or REST API to call gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025 — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.50/1M input, $2.00/1M output tokens. See full pricing.
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Code Examples

Install
pip install google-genai
API key
GOOGLE_API_KEY
Model ID
gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025

Use the model name directly, e.g. "gemini-2.0-flash", "gemini-1.5-pro", or "gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06".

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)

Pricing on Google AI Studio

TypePrice (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.

Full model details →

Model Specs

Released2025-12-01
Context128k
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2025-01

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Provider

Google AI Studio