# Gemini API cost suddenly skyrocketed

**URL:** <https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/gemini-api-cost-suddenly-skyrocketed/99479>\
**Category:** Gemini API\
**Tags:** api, gemini\
**Created:** [August 23, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/gemini-api-cost-suddenly-skyrocketed/99479 "2025-08-23T20:36:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![simplyfaster](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/simplyfaster/32/46925_2.png) [@simplyfaster](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/simplyfaster)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/gemini-api-cost-suddenly-skyrocketed/99479/2 "2025-08-23T21:25:37Z")

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Upon further inspeection I noticed that anomaly is related to this

 ![Screenshot_189](https://d3qe71uytubmmx.cloudfront.net/original/3X/d/b/db699956216ae77884cc0805d0741b4381aca90b.png)

But we never use image generation, we only generate text output. Furthermore we never use this model of gemini, we use 2.0 flash and 2.0 flash lite

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