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Gemini pricing in the US
Google sells Gemini in the US two ways, both in US dollars. Google AI plans (Plus, Pro and Ultra) are for one person each, on personal Google Accounts only. Google Workspace Business editions include Gemini for 1 to 300 users and are how Google sells it to businesses. Workspace prices exclude sales tax. Google does not say whether the Google AI plan prices include sales tax. Gemini Enterprise, a separate agent platform, is priced per seat, and the Gemini API is priced per million tokens.
Country
- Starting price
- Free plan
- Paid from US$4.99/month (Google AI Plus)
- Pricing model
- Per person on Google AI plans
- Per user in Google Workspace
- Plus AI credit top-ups
- Billing
- Monthly or yearly
- Workspace annual plans are still billed monthly
- Tax
- Sales tax extra on Workspace
- Not stated on Google AI plans; prices in USD
- YOY change
- Not enough history
- Last updated
- 18 Oct 2026
How much does Gemini cost in the US?
Plans
Google AI plans are for one person on a personal account, in USD, and Google does not say whether they include sales tax. Google Workspace prices are per user, in USD, excluding sales tax. Gemini Enterprise is in US dollars.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual, per month | Who it is for | Key limits |
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| Google AI plans | ||||
| Gemini (no plan) | US$0 per user | Not offered | Free of charge with a Google Account | Key limits
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| Google AI Plus | US$4.99 per user | Not offered | Get more access to new features to boost your productivity and creativity | Key limits
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| Google AI Pro | US$20 per user | Not offered | Get higher access to new features to boost your productivity and creativity | Key limits
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| Google AI Ultra 5x | US$100 per user | Not offered | The highest level of access to the best of Google AI and exclusive features | Key limits
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| Google AI Ultra 20x | US$200 per user | Not offered | The highest level of access to the best of Google AI and exclusive features | Key limits
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| Google Workspace | ||||
| Google Workspace Business Starter | US$8.40 per user | US$7 per user | Gemini AI assistant in Gmail, plus business email | Key limits
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| Google Workspace Business Standard | US$17 per user | US$14 per user | Gemini AI assistant in Gmail, Docs, Meet and more | Key limits
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| Google Workspace Business Plus | US$26 per user | US$22 per user | Business Standard plus 5 TB pooled storage, Vault and advanced security | Key limits
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| Google Workspace Enterprise | Custom pricing | Not offered | Enterprise-grade security, compliance and AI for large organisations | Key limits
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| Gemini Enterprise | ||||
| Gemini Enterprise Business | From US$21 a seat | Not offered | For small businesses and teams. No IT setup needed. | Key limits
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| Gemini Enterprise Standard and Plus | From US$30 a seat | Not offered | For organisations that need enterprise-grade IT controls | Key limits
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Additional costs
Costs on top of the plan price.
| Cost | Price | Source |
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| AI credit top-ups | US$25 for 2,500; US$50 for 5,000; US$200 for 20,000One-off, on Google AI Pro and Ultra, valid 12 months | |
| AI Expanded Access for Workspace | Not publicly listedPer user a month, for higher AI limits on Business Standard and Plus | |
| Gemini in Docs, Sheets, Meet and Drive | US$17 a user a month, or US$14 on an annual planNeeds Business Standard or above; Business Starter has Gemini in Gmail only | |
| Workspace maximum of 300 users | Enterprise pricingPast 300 users, Enterprise is required | |
| Google AI plans for a business | Workspace pricingPersonal Google Accounts only; a Workspace account needs a Workspace edition | |
| Gemini Enterprise | From US$21 a seat a month; from US$30 on Standard and PlusPer seat, a separate agent platform | |
| Gemini API | Minimum top-up US$5Prepaid through Google Cloud Billing, in US dollars, expiring after 12 months |
API prices
The Gemini API is billed by use, in US dollars per million tokens, separately from any plan.
| Model | Input | Output | Cached input | Context window | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 4 Argon | US$2 | US$10 | US$0.10 | 1.05M tokens | |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | US$0.75 | US$3.75 | US$0.08 | 1.05M tokens | |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | US$0.30 | US$2.50 | US$0.03 | 1.05M tokens |
Gemini cost calculator
Enter how many people need Gemini, any AI credit top-ups, and any API use to price every plan. Estimates in USD, excluding sales tax on Workspace; Google does not say whether Google AI plan prices include it.
How many people in each role will use AI?
For example, General office: 10 people. 12 people in total.
- General officeEmail, writing, summaries and researchpeople
- Content and marketingDrafting, editing and campaignspeople
- Software developmentCoding assistants, reviews and debuggingpeople
- Customer supportReplies and ticket summariespeople
- Finance and analysisSpreadsheets, reports and documentspeople
Do you also want AI to do jobs automatically?
How many times a month for each job. For example, 300 if you sign about 300 contracts a month.
Writing
- Answer support emailsa month
- Summarise email threadsa month
- Answer questions from your documentsa month
- Summarise contractsa month
- Draft blog posts or newslettersa month
- Review code changesa month
Decisions
- Route support ticketsa month
- Score inbound leadsa month
- Flag invoices for reviewa month
- Check documents against a policya month
Estimated cost
US$202a month
Google Workspace Business Standard: 12 people
- Per year, billed monthly
- US$2,419
- Per year, billed annually
- US$2,016Saves US$403
- Seats
- US$202
How we worked it out
- General office staff use AI in short bursts, so a standard seat covers them.
- Content and marketing staff use AI through the day, within a standard seat's limits.
Estimated, USD, excluding sales tax.
What Gemini costs by company size
Estimated cost by number of employees, assuming every employee gets a Google Workspace user, on the cheapest plan that fits each end of the band.
| Employees | Plans | Monthly cost | Annual cost | |||||||||
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| 1 to 10 | Gemini (no plan) to Google Workspace Business Starter | US$0 to US$84 | US$0 | to | US$84 | US$0 to US$1,008 | US$0 | to | US$1,008 | |||
| 11 to 50 | Google Workspace Business Starter | US$92 to US$420 | US$92 | to | US$420 | US$1,109 to US$5,040 | US$1,109 | to | US$5,040 | |||
| 51 to 200 | Google Workspace Business Starter | US$428 to US$1,680 | US$428 | to | US$1,680 | US$5,141 to US$20,160 | US$5,141 | to | US$20,160 | |||
| 201 to 500 | Google Workspace Business Starter | US$1,688 to No plan | US$1,688 | to | No plan | US$20,261 to No plan | US$20,261 | to | No plan | |||
Gemini discount codes and offers
Current Gemini offers in the US, checked 18 October 2026.
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Google Workspace trial and introductory price
14 days free, then up to 50% off the first 3 months
Applied at checkout
New Workspace customers; first 20 users; the discount varies by plan and is for a limited time
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Gemini Enterprise Business trial
Free trial of Gemini Enterprise Business
Length and terms not stated on the US page
How to negotiate Gemini's price
Ranked by confidence of the biggest return.
| Rank | Lever | How it works | What it can save |
|---|---|---|---|
| [01] | Commit to a Workspace annual plan | Business Starter drops from US$8.40 to US$7 a user a month, Standard from US$17 to US$14 and Plus from US$26 to US$22, still billed monthly. | US$17 to US$53 a user a year |
| [02] | Start on the Workspace introductory offer | New customers get 14 days free, then up to 50% off the first 3 months for up to 20 users. | Up to 50% of 3 months, for up to 20 users |
| [03] | Stay on Business Starter if Gmail is enough | Starter has Gemini in Gmail only. Standard adds Gemini in Docs, Sheets, Meet and Drive at twice the price. | US$7 a user a month on annual plans |
| [04] | Pick Google AI Plus over Pro for one person | On a personal account, Plus is US$4.99 a month against US$20 for Pro, at half Pro's Gemini app limits. | US$15 a month |
| [05] | Remove unused Workspace users before renewal | Workspace is billed per user. Check who has not used Gemini or Workspace in the last month before the annual commitment renews. | US$168 a Business Standard user a year, on an annual plan |
| [06] | Ask for Enterprise terms past 300 users | Business editions stop at 300 users. Workspace Enterprise is priced through Google's sales team. | Not publicly listed |
Gemini price history
Gemini's API list prices over the last two years, in US dollars per million tokens, from Google's own pricing pages. US plan prices are not charted yet.
API prices
Gemini's API price over the same two years, one line per model family, in US dollars per million tokens. Each point is the blended price, 70% input and 30% output; hover for each launch and change.
Gemini alternatives
Other tools in our price guides for the US, largest first by market share.
| Vendor | Starting price | Pricing model | Key difference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Free plan; paid from US$8 a user a month (ChatGPT Go) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, plus usage credits | Credits for use past Business limits | Price guides |
| Claude | Free plan; paid from US$20 a user a month (Claude Pro) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, plus usage at API rates | Use past plan limits billed at API rates | Price guides |
| Meta AI | Free plan; paid from US$7.99 a user a month (Meta One Core) | Free for everyday use, per person for Core and Premium, per profile for business plans, plus API usage | Free assistant, with paid Meta One bundles per person or per business profile | Price guides |
| Grok | Free plan; paid from US$8 a user a month (Grok Plus) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, plus prepaid usage credit | Use past plan limits is prepaid credit | Price guides |
| DeepSeek | Pay as you go API, per million tokens | Pay as you go, per million tokens, half price off-peak | Half price off-peak | Price guides |
| Mistral Vibe | Free plan; paid from US$15 a user a month (Mistral Vibe Pro) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, plus usage at API rates | Per person or per seat in US dollars before tax, with API usage in the same plan | Price guides |
| Qwen | US$8 a user a month (Qwen Token Plan Lite) | Per person for one developer, per seat for teams, plus API usage per token | Per person or per seat in US dollars on monthly Credits quotas, plus API usage per token | Price guides |
| Kimi | Free plan; paid from US$19 a user a month (Kimi Plus) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, paid yearly, plus usage top-ups | Per person or per seat in US dollars, Business paid yearly, plus top-ups at about API rates | Price guides |
| Z.ai | Free plan; paid from US$18 a user a month (GLM Coding Plan Lite) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, plus Team overage at API rates | Per person or per seat in US dollars before tax, 20% off quarterly and 30% off yearly | Price guides |
| MiniMax | Free plan; paid from US$22 a user a month (MiniMax M Plan Go) | Per person for one user, no team plan, plus credit packs past plan limits | Per person in US dollars before tax, no team plan, plus credit packs past plan limits | Price guides |
| Jev | Pay as you go API, per million tokens | Pay as you go, per input token, output free | API only, per billion input tokens in US dollars, output free | Price guides |
Gemini pricing questions
Gemini without a plan costs nothing. Google AI Plus is US$4.99 a month, Google AI Pro US$20, and Google AI Ultra US$100 or US$200 depending on its limits. In Google Workspace, Business Starter is US$7, Standard US$14 and Plus US$22 a user a month on an annual plan, or US$8.40, US$17 and US$26 on the Flexible plan, excluding sales tax.
Not on a business account. Google AI Plus, Pro and Ultra can only be bought on personal Google Accounts, and Google points Workspace customers to Workspace editions and add-ons instead. For a business, Gemini comes with Google Workspace Business Starter, Standard or Plus.
Workspace prices do not: Google's US page says they do not include tax, and Google charges any applicable state sales tax on subscriptions bought directly. Whether sales tax applies depends on the billing address. Google does not say whether the Google AI plan prices include it.
Business Standard and above. Business Starter has Gemini in Gmail and basic Gemini app access only. Standard adds Gemini in Docs, Sheets, Slides, Vids, Drive, Meet and Chat, at US$14 a user a month on an annual plan or US$17 on the Flexible plan.
On Workspace, an annual commitment costs about 16% less than the Flexible plan and is still billed monthly. No yearly price for Google AI Plus, Pro or Ultra is shown on Google's US page.
Yes, in the US. Google's US page says Google AI Pro includes US$10 a month of Google Cloud credits through the Google Developer Program, Ultra 5x US$40 and Ultra 20x US$100. This page takes them off API costs on those plans. The credits expire a year after they are granted.
The API is priced per million tokens, in US dollars, and billed through Google Cloud Billing from a minimum prepaid top-up of US$5. Gemini 3.8 Flash is US$0.75 for input and US$3.75 for output; Gemini 4 Argon is US$2 and US$10 until 30 November 2026, then US$4 and US$20; Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is US$0.30 and US$2.50.
On 16 January 2025 Google put Gemini into Workspace Business plans and raised Business Standard from US$12 to US$14 a user a month. On 19 May 2026 Google added an Ultra plan at US$100 a month and cut the top Ultra plan from US$250 to US$200.
Gemini pricing sources and methodology
Google AI plans from gemini.google/us/subscriptions/ as shown on 18 October 2026; Google Workspace from workspace.google.com/pricing with the region set to United States on the same day, Flexible plan prices as monthly and annual commitment prices as annual per month.
Workspace prices exclude sales tax: Google's US page says they do not include tax, and Google charges any applicable state sales tax on direct purchases. Google's US subscriptions page carries no tax wording for Google AI plans. Every price on this page is treated as excluding sales tax.
Estimates from list prices. Google AI plans serve one person each on a personal account, so two or more people are priced on Google Workspace, monthly on the Flexible plan and yearly on the annual commitment. AI credit top-ups are added at cost. API tokens are priced on the chosen model from Ensurva's AI price guides, in US dollars, less the Google Cloud credits Google's US page lists for Google AI Pro and Ultra. Company size assumes every employee gets a Workspace user. Workspace Enterprise and Gemini Enterprise are not priced.
The API table comes from the same data as Ensurva's AI price guides, read from Google's own pricing pages, in US dollars per million tokens.
The chart shows the Gemini API's list prices from the AI price guides' data, in US dollars. No dated US plan prices have been collected yet, so plan prices are not charted.
Drawn from how Google charges, not from records of negotiated deals.
No public comments on Gemini's pricing from Americans have been collected yet, so this page has no comments section.
Checked monthly against Google's own pages.
The calculator's By use case tab puts each person on a seat that suits how heavily their role uses AI. Software developers use it most, about 15% of their working hours against about 6% across all workers (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2026), so they get the heavier seat where the plan has one. Content, support and finance staff fit a standard seat, and general office staff use AI least. Each automated job is priced at a typical size, about 100 tokens to 75 words: a support reply reads about 1,100 words and writes 200, and a contract summary reads 10,000 and writes 750. Decision jobs read the record and give a short typed answer: about 600 words to route a support ticket, 4,500 to check a document against a policy. Those sizes are Ensurva's own estimates. A model that writes no text, such as Jev, is priced on decision jobs only. Jobs are priced as API use on the vendor's default model, less any API credits the plan includes.
- Gemini subscriptions (United States) 18 Oct 2026
- Google Workspace pricing (United States) 18 Oct 2026
- Google AI plans 18 Oct 2026
- Google AI plans (US), Cloud credits 18 Oct 2026
- Google Developer Program benefits 18 Oct 2026
- Taxes in your region (Workspace) 18 Oct 2026
- Manage your AI credits 18 Oct 2026
- Purchase Google AI credits 18 Oct 2026
- Gemini Apps limits and upgrades 18 Oct 2026
- AI Expanded Access 18 Oct 2026
- Gemini API billing 18 Oct 2026
- Gemini API pricing 18 Oct 2026
- Google AI subscription updates from I/O 2026 18 Oct 2026
- Workspace blog: AI in Business and Enterprise plans 18 Oct 2026
Prices are estimates from Google's published list prices on the date shown. Check gemini.google and workspace.google.com before buying.