As recorded at collection: Google Gemini API opens all models for free, with no credit card required
As recorded at collection: Google offers an ongoing free tier for API access to its Gemini AI models, with no credit card required. It includes the most capable Gemini 2.5 Pro, as well as 2.5 Flash, Flash-Lite, and the publicly available Gemma 3 model, with support for a long context of 1 million tokens. Calls are limited to 5-15 per minute and 100-1,000 per day, and your input may be used to train models.
- What you get
- Free API access to all Gemini models, with no card required
- Price
- Free
- Valid until
- Ongoing free access
- Requirements
- No credit card is required. Depending on the model, usage is limited to 5-15 requests per minute and 100-1,000 per day, with tighter limits since the reductions in December 2025. Google may use data exchanged on the free tier to train models, so it is safer not to enter sensitive information.
Details
Google offers free access to Gemini models as APIs that programs can call. All models are included, from the highest-performing Gemini 2.5 Pro and fast-responding 2.5 Flash to the lighter Flash-Lite and open model Gemma 3. The free tier also supports a full 1-million-token context, allowing long documents to be processed in a single request.
To start, visit the Gemini API page with your Google account and generate an API key, an authentication string needed to use the service. You can use it immediately without registering a credit card or payment method. There is no separate review or waiting process.
The restrictions are clear. Depending on the model, calls are limited to 5-15 per minute and 100-1,000 per day, making the tier unsuitable for bulk processing. The reductions in December 2025 further narrowed the allowance. Google says it may use free-tier data to train models, so entering personal information or business secrets is not recommended.
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- aicredits
- Collected at
- July 26, 2026, 08:05 KST
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- Updates
- July 27 00:21 · Reclassified due to a change in criteria