Gemini 2.5 Pro → Grok 4.7: cost per request on six tasks
Grok 4.7 costs between 28% less and 51% more than Gemini 2.5 Pro per request on six common tasks. It costs no more per result that works if its results work first time at least 73% as often as Gemini 2.5 Pro's on translation, and 51% more often on search re-ranking. Google has announced Gemini 2.5 Pro's API shutdown for 2026-12-01.
List prices per million tokens
| Model | Input | Cached input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | $1.25 | $0.125 | $10.00 |
| Grok 4.7 | $2.00 | $0.50 | $6.00 |
Prices checked 2026-11-12.
Cost per 1,000 requests
| Task | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Grok 4.7 | Change | Cheaper per result that works if it works first time at least |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support bot answerInstructions, three help-centre passages and the customer's question in; a short answer out. | $6.75 | $7.80 | 16% more | 16% more often than Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| Invoice field extractionInstructions and one invoice's text in; about 15 fields as JSON out. | $5.63 | $6.50 | 16% more | 16% more often than Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| Lead scoringScoring rules and one lead's form answers in; a score and a one-line reason out. | $2.50 | $3.00 | 20% more | 20% more often than Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| Email reply draftInstructions and the email thread so far in; a reply of about 300 words out. | $5.88 | $5.40 | 8% less | 92% as often as Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| TranslationInstructions and about 500 words of text in; the same text in another language out. | $9.13 | $6.60 | 28% less | 73% as often as Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| Search re-rankingA search query and 20 result snippets in; the ids of the best five, in order, out. | $5.50 | $8.30 | 51% more | 51% more often than Gemini 2.5 Pro |
Token counts are typical sizes, not measurements.
Gemini 2.5 Pro is being shut down
Google has announced Gemini 2.5 Pro's API shutdown for 2026-12-01, with gemini-3.8-flash (requests auto-route, billed at 3.8 Flash rates) as the replacement (source).
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