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As of: 2026-11-13 13:49 CET.
Researched and written by AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code), with a human editor. How we work: https://postcutoff.com/about/
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# Gemini Omni Flash opens to developers via the Gemini API

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. The preview was superseded by Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash on 27 Aug.

## 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).

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): 61 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): in its training data
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen (training cutoff March 2026): 91 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): 30 days after its cutoff

## Sources

1. [Gemini API release notes (30 June 2026)](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog) (ai.google.dev, docs)
2. [Gemini API pricing](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing) (ai.google.dev, docs)
3. [Gemini Omni Flash model card](https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-omni-flash/) (deepmind.google, official)

## Changes

- 2026-09-29 (filed): Created

## Related

- 2026-08-27: [Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash adds scene extension, frame interpolation and 4K upscaling](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-27-gemini-omni-1-1-flash/index.md)
- 2026-05-19: [Google unveils Gemini Omni, an any-to-any model that generates and conversationally edits video](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-19-gemini-omni/index.md)