Is Gemini Omni Flash free? No free tier; cheapest Sume clip is $0.11
Google's price page lists Not available for Omni Flash and Veo 3.1 on the free tier. The paid rates, and Sume's cheapest Omni clip (3 seconds at 360p).
No. Google's Gemini API pricing page shows Not available in the Free Tier column for Gemini Omni Flash and for Veo 3.1 (Standard, Fast and Lite), and describes Omni Flash as generally available to developers on the paid tier. On Sume, the cheapest Omni clip is the 3-second minimum at 360p, which is 3 x $0.0375 = $0.1125.
| Item | Free Tier | Paid Tier |
|---|---|---|
| Input (text, image, video, audio) | Not available | $1.50 per 1M tokens |
| Output, text | Not available | $9.00 per 1M tokens |
| Output, video | Not available | $17.50 per 1M tokens |
| Effective video price | Not available | About $0.10 per second at 720p (5,792 tokens per second) |
What the page also says
The row notes that billing is based on total output token consumption, at 5,792 tokens per second of 720p video. The page lists a second model, gemini-omni-flash-preview, separately. The data-use row says that free-tier content is used to improve Google products and paid-tier content is not, but there is no free-tier Omni Flash row to apply it to.
Cheapest ways to try it on Sume
Sume lists gemini-omni-flash-1.1 at 3 to 10 seconds in 16:9 or 9:16. The rows are $0.0375 per second at 360p, $0.125 at 720p, $0.1875 at 1080p and $0.375 at 4K. A minimum test is 3 seconds at 360p ($0.1125); a first look at 720p for 3 seconds is 3 x $0.125 = $0.375; a 10-second 1080p clip is $1.875.
Sume requires a funded balance for generation, which the catalog marks as requires_balance. Sume reserves the estimate at submit, so a first test needs enough balance to cover the estimate; the reservation is released if the job fails.
Cost of a trial run
A ten-clip trial of 5 seconds each at 720p costs 10 x 5 x $0.125 = $6.25 on Sume's gemini-omni-flash-1.1, or about 10 x $0.5068 = $5.07 on Google's own paid tier by the page's token arithmetic. The gap between them is Sume's 1.25 multiple, and the choice is between Google's paid account and one funded Sume balance across many models.
What to use for a no-cost look
If you want to see what Omni Flash returns without paying, the pricing page offers no free route in the API. Google's video guide points to Google AI Studio for trying the model interactively, but whether that is free for you depends on your account, and the page we read does not say. For any programmatic test, plan on paid usage and keep the first clip short: at 3 seconds, a 360p clip on Sume is $0.1125 and a 720p clip is $0.375.
Preview model
The same page lists gemini-omni-flash-preview as a second entry. We did not rely on it for any price in this post, because the generally available model id, gemini-omni-1.1-flash, is the one the page describes as ready for paid-tier developers. Sume's id for its listed row is gemini-omni-flash-1.1.
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