# gemini-2.5-pro — API, Pricing & Context Window

`gemini-2.5-pro` is Google's widely used pro-tier multimodal model, valued for strong reasoning and a **1M-token context window** spanning **text, image, video, audio, and PDF**. It remains a reliable choice for established multimodal applications.

Vivgrid serves `gemini-2.5-pro` as a globally centralized model through its unified, OpenAI-compatible API, easing migration to or from newer Gemini releases.

## Specifications

|     |     |
| --- | --- |
| **Provider** | Google |
| **Model ID** | `gemini-2.5-pro` |
| **Best for** | General-purpose |
| **Context window** | 1,048,576 tokens |
| **Modalities** | Text, Image, Video, Audio, Pdf |
| **Tool / function calling** | Yes |
| **Knowledge cutoff** | 2025-01 |
| **Acceleration** | 🌐 Global (Centralized) |

## Pricing

Pricing in USD per 1M tokens, matching the provider's rates.

| Input | Cached input | Output |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $1.25 | $0.31 | $10.00 |

## Quick start

Call `gemini-2.5-pro` through Vivgrid's unified, OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Get an API key from the [Vivgrid Console](https://console.vivgrid.com/).

```
curl https://api.vivgrid.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VIVGRID_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "gemini-2.5-pro",
    "messages": [\
      { "role": "user", "content": "Say hello in English, Chinese and Spanish." }\
    ],
    "stream": true
  }'
```

## Ideal use cases

- Established multimodal reasoning applications
- Long-context analysis over mixed media
- Document, audio, and video understanding
- A stable baseline before adopting Gemini 3

## Related models

- [gemini-3-pro-preview](/content/docs/models/gemini-3-pro-preview/index.html) — the next-gen pro model
- [gemini-2.5-flash](/content/docs/models/gemini-2.5-flash/index.html) — faster, cheaper sibling
- [gemini-3.1-pro-preview](/content/docs/models/gemini-3.1-pro-preview/index.html) — latest pro release

[gemini-3-flash-preview](/content/docs/models/gemini-3-flash-preview/index.html) — Google's fast multimodal Gemini 3 model with a 1M-token context window and very low cached pricing.

[gemini-2.5-flash](/content/docs/models/gemini-2.5-flash/index.html) — Google's fast, affordable multimodal model with a 1M-token context window across text, image, video, audio and PDF.