Roundup
Best AI Models for Research
Long documents, citations and careful reasoning: the models we reach for when accuracy matters more than speed.
Provider
Google DeepMind's Gemini and Gemma models.
- Priced models
- 37
- Listed last 30d
- 2
- Cheapest
- $0.063
- Google: Gemma 3 4B
- Median blended
- $0.850
- USD per 1M
- Market median
- $0.800
- all providers
- Largest context
- 1.0M
- Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)
Catalogue
All Google models
Newest listings first. Prices are USD per million tokens as listed on OpenRouter.
| Model | Input | Output | Blended | Context | Capabilities | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch) google/gemini-3.8-flash:batch | $0.375 | $1.88 | $0.750 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONImageVideoFileAudio | |
| Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash google/gemini-3.8-flash | $0.750 | $3.75 | $1.50 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONImageVideoFileAudio | |
| Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch) google/gemini-3.7-flash:batch | $0.375 | $1.88 | $0.750 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONImageVideoFileAudio | |
| Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash google/gemini-3.7-flash | $0.750 | $3.75 | $1.50 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONImageVideoFileAudio | |
| Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch) google/gemini-3.6-flash:batch | $0.375 | $1.88 | $0.750 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONImageVideoFileAudio | |
| Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash google/gemini-3.6-flash | $0.750 | $3.75 | $1.50 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONImageVideoFileAudio | |
| Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite:batch | $0.150 | $1.25 | $0.425 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONImageVideoFileAudio | |
| Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite | $0.300 | $2.50 | $0.850 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONImageVideoFileAudio | |
| Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image | $0.250 | $1.50 | $0.563 | 66K | ReasoningJSONImage | |
| Google: Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) google/gemini-3.1-flash-image | $0.500 | $3.00 | $1.13 | 131K | ReasoningJSONImage | |
| Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) google/gemini-3-pro-image | $2.00 | $12.00 | $4.50 | 131K | ToolsReasoningJSONImage | |
| Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash (batch) google/gemini-3.5-flash:batch | $0.750 | $4.50 | $1.69 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONImageVideoFileAudio | |
| Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash google/gemini-3.5-flash | $1.50 | $9.00 | $3.38 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONImageVideoFileAudio | |
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch) google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite:batch | $0.125 | $0.750 | $0.281 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONImageVideoFileAudio | |
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite | $0.250 | $1.50 | $0.563 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONImageVideoFileAudio | |
| Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it | $0.090 | $0.300 | $0.143 | 262K | ToolsReasoningJSONImageVideo | |
| Google: Gemma 4 31B google/gemma-4-31b-it | $0.090 | $0.340 | $0.152 | 262K | ToolsReasoningJSONImageVideo | |
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview | $0.250 | $1.50 | $0.563 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONImageVideoFileAudio | |
| Google: Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview) google/gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview | $0.500 | $3.00 | $1.13 | 66K | ReasoningJSONImage | |
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview-customtools | $2.00 | $12.00 | $4.50 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONAudioImageVideoFile | |
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (batch) google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview:batch | $1.00 | $6.00 | $2.25 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONAudioFileImageVideo | |
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview | $2.00 | $12.00 | $4.50 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONAudioFileImageVideo | |
| Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch) google/gemini-3-flash-preview:batch | $0.250 | $1.50 | $0.563 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONImageFileAudioVideo | |
| Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview google/gemini-3-flash-preview | $0.500 | $3.00 | $1.13 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONImageFileAudioVideo | |
| Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) google/gemini-3-pro-image-preview | $2.00 | $12.00 | $4.50 | 66K | ReasoningJSONImage | |
| Google: Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) google/gemini-2.5-flash-image | $0.300 | $2.50 | $0.850 | 33K | JSONImage | |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite:batch | $0.050 | $0.200 | $0.087 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONImageFileAudioVideo | |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite | $0.100 | $0.400 | $0.175 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONImageFileAudioVideo | |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch) google/gemini-2.5-flash:batch | $0.150 | $1.25 | $0.425 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONFileImageAudioVideo | |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash google/gemini-2.5-flash | $0.300 | $2.50 | $0.850 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONFileImageAudioVideo | |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro (batch) google/gemini-2.5-pro:batch | $0.625 | $5.00 | $1.72 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONImageFileAudioVideo | |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro google/gemini-2.5-pro | $1.25 | $10.00 | $3.44 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONImageFileAudioVideo | |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 google/gemini-2.5-pro-preview | $1.25 | $10.00 | $3.44 | 1.0M | ToolsReasoningJSONFileImageAudio | |
| Google: Gemma 3 4B google/gemma-3-4b-it | $0.050 | $0.100 | $0.063 | 131K | JSONImage | |
| Google: Gemma 3 12B google/gemma-3-12b-it | $0.050 | $0.150 | $0.075 | 131K | ToolsJSONImage | |
| Google: Gemma 3 27B google/gemma-3-27b-it | $0.080 | $0.450 | $0.172 | 131K | ToolsJSONImage | |
| Google: Gemma 2 27B google/gemma-2-27b-it | $0.650 | $0.650 | $0.650 | 8K | JSON |
Capability chips reflect what the listing declares; absence is not evidence a feature is missing.
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