
Google launches Gemini 2.5 Pro, free app access continues
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Google launches Gemini 2.5 Pro, free app access continues
Gemini 2.5 Pro entered experimental testing in late March (03-25) Four days after debuting for paying subscribers and developers, Google surprisingly made it available for free users. It got a big coding upgrade in May (05-06) just before I/O, and one last update at the start of June (06-05) With the stable version today, there are “no changes from the 06-05 preview version.” Google AI Ultra offers the “highest access” to the Pro version of the app.
Gemini 2.5 Pro entered experimental testing in late March (03-25). Four days after debuting for paying subscribers and developers, Google surprisingly made it available for free users. It got a big coding upgrade in May (05-06) just before I/O, and one last update at the start of June (06-05).
With the stable version today, there are “no changes from the 06-05 preview version.”
L-R: Latest, 06-05, 05-06, 03-25 benchmarks
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With this launch, 2.5 Pro will lose the “preview” label in the Gemini app’s model picker. It follows 2.5 Flash entering GA in the app at I/O last month. Google notes how Pro is for “Reasoning, math & code” prompts, while Flash is for “Fast all-around help.”
Google tells us today that free Gemini app users will continue to have “limited access” to 2.5 Pro, with AI Pro subscribers getting 100 prompts per day, or “expanded access.” Google AI Ultra offers the “highest access.”
2.5 Flash is also now generally available and stable for developers. It’s the same 05-20 model preview from I/O with updated pricing:
$0.30 / 1M input tokens (*up from $0.15 input)
$2.50 / 1M output tokens (*down from $3.50 output)
We removed the thinking vs. non-thinking price difference
We kept a single price tier regardless of input token size
Additionally, developers can now preview Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite for “high-volume, latency-sensitive tasks like translation and classification” where cost is a priority. Google touts “lower latency than 2.0 Flash-Lite and 2.0 Flash on a broad sample of prompts.”
Thinking is turned off by default, but can be enabled with set budgets. Available native tools include “Grounding with Google Search, Code Execution, and URL Context in addition to function calling.” There’s also
multimodal input and the 1 million-token context length.
2.5 Flash Lite has all-around higher quality than 2.0 Flash-Lite on coding, math, science, reasoning and multimodal benchmarks.
Google Releases Upgraded Gemini 2.5 Pro AI Model in Preview
Google has released a preview version of Gemini 2.5 Pro, the new version of its AI model that the company claims is its smartest yet. The update builds on the model shown at Google I/O in May and will be available to everyone in the coming weeks.
Gemini 2.5 Pro is made for enterprise-scale applications and is now accessible to developers through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Vertex AI, and the Gemini app.
Google says the model continues to do well at coding, leading on difficult coding benchmarks such as Aider Polyglot. It also shows top-level performance on GPQA and Humanity’s Last Exam (HLE), which tests math, science, knowledge, and reasoning abilities.
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The company also says it has improved the model’s style and structure based on feedback from the previous release; it is now more creative and better at formatting responses. Developers now have access to “thinking budgets,” which give more control over cost and latency.
Gemini 2.5 Pro costs $1.25 for every million input tokens and $10 for every million output tokens, which is lower than many other options in the market.
Source: https://9to5google.com/2025/06/17/gemini-2-5-pro-launch/