6 NOV 2026 — Google changed its Omni video model on 5 November. It cut the per-second price by about 30% and lengthened clips by half, and the two changes almost cancel out at the top end. A full-length clip from the new Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash costs roughly three US cents more than a full-length clip from the model it replaces, by our arithmetic from Google's own price list.
Google announced Omni 1.2 Flash on the Gemini API and in its business products, with clips of up to 15 seconds against a 10-second ceiling on Omni 1.1, at US$0.07 per second of 720p video. The company says the new version also holds characters, products and reference images more steadily across a clip. Those quality claims are Google's own, shown through its demo clips, and no independent test has been published yet.
The model is about four months old. Its per-second price stayed put through preview and general availability until this week, when the clip got longer and the second got cheaper.
Omni from preview to 1.2
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Public preview
Google released gemini-omni-flash-preview, generating 3 to 10 second videos at 720p, according to the Gemini API release notes. An archived copy of the pricing page from 10 July lists video output at $17.50 per million tokens, or about $0.10 a second.
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Omni 1.1 Flash, labelled GA
The release notes call gemini-omni-1.1-flash "the GA version" and add video extension, first-and-last-frame interpolation and output from 360p to 4K. The preview endpoint was scheduled for deprecation on 30 September. A pricing page archived on 30 August shows the same $17.50 rate.
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Free in Google Vids
Google opened Omni 1.1 video generation in its Vids editor to anyone with a Google account at no cost, in a Workspace post by product manager Justin Luk. The post gives no monthly limit.
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Still $0.10 a second
The last archived copy before the launch still lists Omni 1.1 at $17.50 per million video tokens. The preview model no longer appears.
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Omni 1.2 Flash, $12.00
Video output drops to $12.00 per million tokens, clips reach 15 seconds and paid-tier rate limits double. Vids now allows up to three free 15-second videos a month, according to a second Workspace post.
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Google Cloud availability
Google Cloud's post by John Nack repeats the 30% figure and claims "similar savings at other resolutions".
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Old model redirected
From this date, calls to gemini-omni-1.1-flash route automatically to 1.2 and are billed at 1.2 rates.
Checking the 30% against the price list
Google bills Omni video by output tokens, at 5,792 tokens for each second of 720p, the same rate for both versions on its pricing page. At the Standard tier, 5,792 tokens at $17.50 per million comes to $0.1014 a second for Omni 1.1, and at $12.00 per million to $0.0695 for Omni 1.2. That is a cut of 31.4%, so the advertised "30%" rounds slightly down. The 1.2 page itself gives about $0.70 for a 10-second clip and about $1.04 for a 15-second one.
Compare the longest clip each model allows. Ten seconds of Omni 1.1, its maximum, cost 57,920 tokens, or $1.01. Fifteen seconds of Omni 1.2 costs 86,880 tokens, or $1.04. Anyone who simply moves to the longer clip pays about 2.9% more per generation while getting 50% more footage. The saving appears only when clips are the same length: a 10-second shot falls from $1.01 to $0.70.
The Cloud post's line about other resolutions cannot be checked from the API price list. The 1.2 entry gives per-second prices from $0.023 at 360p to $0.209 for upsampled 4K, but the 1.1 entry gives a token rate for 720p only. Input pricing, at $1.50 per million tokens, and text output, at $9.00, are unchanged between the two versions.
Google's 1.2 announcement also says that "for the first time, Gemini Omni is now generally available". Its own release notes and two archived pricing pages treated Omni 1.1 as generally available from 27 August. Google's blog post does not explain the difference.
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