Google AI Studio / Gemini API

Model provider API with free tier

Free tier + paidModel APIs, routers & observabilityai.google.dev

What it is

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 it earns a slot

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.

Know before you commit

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.

Getting started

npm i @google/genai (or pip install google-genai)

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Pricing snapshot

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.

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Context: Model provider API with free tier. 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.
Reviewer notes (general, not written for this codebase): 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.
Watch out for: 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.
Pricing: 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.
Setup: npm i @google/genai (or pip install google-genai)
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