Gemini 2.5 Pro
Google · Released Dec 2025
Now the budget long-context pick: a 40% price cut (Jun 2026) made full-corpus passes affordable at mid-size budgets — the longest context window available with strong Google ecosystem integration.
Is it right for you?
Good for
- Processing extremely long documents
- Google Workspace integration
- Multilingual tasks
- Cost-effective general-purpose use
Not good for
- Agentic coding requiring deep understanding
- Privacy-sensitive data processing outside Google
- Tasks where Claude or GPT-4o quality is noticeably better
How it performs by task
Long document analysis
Largest context window at 1M tokens makes it ideal for processing very large documents and codebases.
Multilingual tasks
Strong multilingual performance across European and Asian languages with natural fluency.
Data extraction
Reliable structured extraction with good schema adherence and competitive pricing.
Code generation
Competent code generation but noticeably behind Claude 4 Sonnet and GPT-4o on complex tasks.
Pricing
Input
$1.25 / 1M tokens
Output
$10 / 1M tokens
Context
1M tokens
Verdict history
Google cuts Gemini 2.5 Pro pricing 40% — our budget long-context verdict flips
Full reasoningBudget agents just got cheaper: Gemini 2.5 Flash is our new pick
Full reasoningSources
- Google Gemini ModelsMay 2026
- Gemini PricingMay 2026