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  "slug": "google-ai-studio-gemini-api",
  "name": "Google AI Studio / Gemini API",
  "url": "https://ai.google.dev",
  "cat": "ai",
  "group": "ai",
  "tagline": "Model provider API with free tier",
  "price": "Free tier in AI Studio with rate limits. Paid: Gemini 3.7 Flash $0.75/$3.75 per M in/out; Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite $0.30/$2.50; Gemini 2.5 Pro $1.25/$10.",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "Google's developer surface for Gemini: AI Studio is the browser playground and key issuer, the Gemini API is the endpoint. Uniquely among frontier labs it ships a genuinely usable free tier, plus huge context windows and native multimodal input across text, image, audio and video.",
  "why": "You can ship a working prototype without entering a credit card, and Flash-tier pricing stays cheap when you scale. Best option when your app needs to read PDFs, screenshots or video without a separate vision pipeline.",
  "warn": "Free-tier prompts and responses may be used to improve Google products and can be seen by human reviewers — never send customer data through an unpaid key. Paid-tier terms exclude training use.",
  "install": "npm i @google/genai (or pip install google-genai)",
  "category": {
    "key": "ai",
    "name": "Model APIs, routers & observability",
    "desc": "Providers, gateways, inference hosts and eval layers — constantly conflated, listed separately here.",
    "group": "ai",
    "groupName": "Put AI inside it"
  },
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    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://ai.google.dev/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T18:09:22.039+00:00"
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