Overview
Google’s frontier reasoning model for complex, long-running professional and technical tasks. It is a sparse mixture-of-experts Transformer with native multimodal capabilities. Google Cloud announced its availability on October 13, 2026. (cloud.google.com)
Capabilities and uses
- Accepts text, images, audio and video; the DeepMind model card describes text output.
- Supports a unified 1,048,576-token input-and-output limit, including thinking and function-call tokens. Long outputs require continuation across segments; a single foreground segment supports up to 65,536 output tokens when streaming or 32,768 when non-streaming.
- Intended uses include software engineering, multi-step agents, document analysis, financial and legal workflows, scientific and mathematical reasoning, and cybersecurity defense.
- Available through Google Cloud’s Gemini platform API, Google AI Studio, Gemini for business and other Google products, subject to their access conditions. (docs.cloud.google.com)
Limitations
The model can hallucinate and may occasionally be slow or time out. Its knowledge cutoff is March 2026, with some domains potentially less current. Outputs for consequential decisions should be independently checked. The API supports implicit caching only, with a 4,096-token minimum; explicit context caching is not supported. Custom sampling values are ignored. (deepmind.google)
Pricing
Google Cloud Agent Platform, standard service; USD per 1 million tokens. Output pricing includes response and reasoning tokens. Prices below are for this model, not the separately named Cyber Permissive variant. (cloud.google.com)
| Period and endpoint | Input | Cached input read | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Through November 30, 2026 — global | $2.00 | $0.10 | $10.00 |
| Through November 30, 2026 — non-global | $2.20 | $0.11 | $11.00 |
| From December 1, 2026 — global | $4.00 | $0.20 | $20.00 |
| From December 1, 2026 — non-global | $4.40 | $0.22 | $22.00 |
Google Cloud states that the promotional rates are provided through 50% credits back on eligible net spending. Other service tiers and features may have different charges. Pricing source: Google Cloud Agent Platform pricing, checked November 15, 2026. (cloud.google.com)