Google Gemini API web search tool pricing.
Prices checked
Google Gemini API Grounding, Gemini 3 costs $14 per 1,000 searches when you make 1,000 a month and $14 at 100,000, checked .
At 1,000 searches a month
Google Gemini API
Grounding, Gemini 3 · pay as you go
What 1,000 searches cost you, bought the cheapest way Google Gemini API sells them.
At 100,000 a month
Google Gemini API
pay as you go
The same price per search at any volume: no discount for more.
The model's tokens are billed on top of every search. What Google's models cost by the token
Every way Google Gemini API sells it
Grounding, Gemini 3, Model tools
$14 per 1,000 searches at 1,000 a month; $14 per 1,000 searches at 100,000.
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Pay as you go
pay as you go
$14/1k searches - 2
Free searches
5,000 a month
free
How each price is read
- Per search query, and one prompt may make several; tokens are billed on top. Gemini 3 and newer models.
- Searches a month on the paid tier, shared across every Gemini 3 and newer model.
- Per grounded prompt, however many searches it makes; tokens are billed on top.
- Grounded prompts a day on the paid tier.
How we count
Each price is per 1,000 searches when you make 1,000 or 100,000 searches a month and buy them the cheapest way that provider sells: pay as you go, the plan that covers them with its overage, or a pack spread over the months it lasts. A free allowance is not subtracted; free tiers are listed on their own.
A free tier is a limit, not a price: it is listed on every page and called the cheapest on none. A model's search tool bills the model's tokens on top of each search, so it is compared only with other model tools. A price read for the first time, or that moved a lot, is marked while a second reading checks it.
Similar APIs
Other model search tools, cheapest first. Each percentage is against Google Gemini API's $14 per 1,000 searches at 1,000 searches a month.
Frequently asked
- How much does the Google Gemini API web search tool cost?
- $14 per 1,000 searches for Grounding, Gemini 3 when you make 1,000 a month (pay as you go), and $14 per 1,000 searches at 100,000 a month (pay as you go), checked 21 Oct 2026. Tax is extra.
- Does Google Gemini API have a free tier?
- Yes. Grounding, Gemini 3: 5,000 a month free; Grounding, Gemini 2.5: 1,500 a day free. A free tier is a limit, not a price: it is listed on every page and called the cheapest on none.
- What does a Google Gemini API search return?
- Model tools: The search a model makes for itself inside a model call, with the model's tokens billed on top.
- What is cheaper than Google Gemini API?
- Among model search tools, Perplexity web_search tool, fast at $1 per 1,000 searches, xAI web_search tool at $5 per 1,000 searches, Anthropic Web search tool at $10 per 1,000 searches, OpenAI Web search tool at $10 per 1,000 searches, each at 1,000 searches a month.
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