Google Gemini API
Access Google's most capable multimodal AI models for text, image, audio, and video understanding through the Gemini API.
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2026-02-03
At a glance
Essential information
About
Google Gemini API provides access to Google's most advanced multimodal AI models, capable of understanding and processing text, images, audio, and video. Built by Google DeepMind, Gemini represents the cutting edge of AI capabilities.
What you can build
- Multimodal AI applications that process text, images, and video
- Advanced chatbots with visual understanding
- Document analysis and extraction tools
- Video content understanding systems
- Educational applications with image recognition
- Creative tools for content generation
- AI-powered search and retrieval systems
Pricing
View Pricing| Free tier | Yes |
| Starting from | Free tier available |
| Notes | Free tier with 15 RPM; paid plans start at $0.075/M tokens for Flash model. |
Last updated: 2026-02-03. Please refer to the official pricing page as pricing may have changed.
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Authentication & Limits
View Docs- Auth type
- api_key
- Rate limits
- 15 RPM (free tier); 360 RPM (paid tier).
Steps to get API key
- 1Visit ai.google.dev and sign in
- 2Click "Get API key" in Google AI Studio
- 3Create a new API key
- 4Copy the key securely
- 5Use in x-goog-api-key header or as query parameter
FAQ
Gemini is natively multimodal, trained from the ground up to understand and process text, images, audio, and video simultaneously.
