Gemini Omni Flash opens to developers via the Gemini API
Confirmed
The takeaway
On 30 June 2026 Google released gemini-omni-flash-preview in the Gemini API and AI Studio (plus gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image GA), letting developers generate and conversationally edit video with Gemini Omni for roughly $0.10 per second of output.
Status
- Claim
Confirmed
- Our reporting
- High confidence
- Importance
- 2 of 5
- Last verified
- 29 September 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra61 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5In its training data
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen91 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.730 days after its cutoff
It is after the cutoff of GPT-6 Astra, Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Grok 4.7, and can be in the training data of Claude Opus 5.5.
Key facts
- Model ID: gemini-omni-flash-preview (deprecated 2026-09-30 in favour of gemini-omni-1.1-flash)
- Pricing per Gemini API docs: $17.50 per 1M video output tokens, 5,792 tokens per second of 720p video (~$0.10/s)
- Same-day GA of gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image
What happened
Six weeks after its consumer debut, Gemini Omni Flash became available to developers through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio as a preview model.
Why it matters
API access turned Omni from a consumer feature into a building block; third-party creative tools began integrating it (Adobe Firefly, Figma Weave and Runway integrated the later 1.1 version).
Sources
3 sources from 2 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
3 sources: 3 primary
Primary
- Gemini API release notes (30 June 2026)ai.google.dev, docs
- Gemini API pricingai.google.dev, docs
- Gemini Omni Flash model carddeepmind.google, official
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