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Google Cloud's enterprise surface for Gemini and partner models.
- Category
- cloud
- Free tier
- No
- OpenAI API
- Custom
- Adds on top
- None - list price
Margin over the underlying model price
What Google charges
Live prices for widely-hosted open-weight models, sampled from the shared catalogue. Compare the same row against other hosts on each model page.
| Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Throughput |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1.0M | - |
Google alternatives
Other services in the same category. These are genuine substitutes - services in a different category solve a different problem.
Amazon Bedrock
AWS's managed multi-vendor model service with private VPC access.
Azure
Azure AI Foundry, with regional data residency and enterprise agreements.
Databricks
Model serving sitting next to the customer's own lakehouse data.
Google AI Studio
The direct Gemini API, with a genuinely usable free tier.
Frequently asked
Is Google OpenAI-compatible?
No. Google uses its own API shape, so you will need its SDK or a translation layer such as LiteLLM.
Does Google have a free tier?
Not currently. Google bills from the first request.
How does Google charge?
Per token or per character Margin over the underlying model price: none - list price.