Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash video costs $0.07 a second

A 15-second clip at 720p comes to about $1 through the API of Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, the video model Google unveiled on Thursday. The rate is $0.07 per second, 30% below the previous version, and users pick a length from 3 to 15 seconds in one-second steps. Omni 1.1 topped out at 10.

For users in Mexico, the cheapest route is Google Vids, where 15-second clips carry no extra charge for anyone signed in with a Google account or Workspace. The Gemini app, by contrast, reserves 15-second video for Google AI Ultra subscribers for now. The paid API is open to any developer, and to businesses through Vertex AI, but not on the free tier.

The rest of the per-second rates come from Google AI Studio's pricing page:

Google suggests drafting at 360p or 720p and upscaling to 1080p or 4K at the end. Everything the model produces carries SynthID, the imperceptible watermark Google uses to tag AI-generated content.

Google says Omni 1.2 follows reference material more closely (photos of a character, product or style, motion clips of up to 3 seconds, audio tracks) and keeps characters and scenes steadier from shot to shot. It also says a clip can be refined over several rounds without regenerating it, and that lip sync improved when several people talk. None of those gains has been tested independently.

Google acknowledges it is still working on three weak spots: fast sports action, abrupt scene cuts and complex physics. Those are where video models tend to break down.

Prices are in dollars only. Google has not given a peso price or a date for 15-second video to reach Ultra in Mexico.