gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025

proprietary

The Live API enables low-latency, real-time voice and video interactions with Gemini 2.5 Flash. It processes continuous streams of audio, video, or text to deliver immediate, human-like spoken responses, creating a natural conversational experience for your users.

Context
131K
Max output
8K
Input price
$0.3/1M tokens
Output price
$2.5/1M tokens

Capabilities

Reasoning & Interaction
Reasoning
Tool Calling
Output Control
Structured Output
JSON Mode
Infrastructure
Streaming
Batch Processing

Details

Creator Google AI
Licenseproprietary
Statusactive
Typechat
Input modalitiestext, image, video, audio
Output modalitiestext, image, audio
Open weightNo
Parameters—
Architecture—
Context window131K tokens
Max input—
Max output8K tokens
Reasoning tokens—
Knowledge cutoff
Release date—
Sourceofficial

Tools

Function Callingfunction_calling
Call external functions and APIs

Endpoints

Generate ContentPOST
Generate text from multimodal inputhttps://us-central1-aiplatform.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/{model}:generateContent
Stream ContentPOST
Stream text generation responseshttps://us-central1-aiplatform.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/{model}:streamGenerateContent

Pricing

Text tokensPer 1M tokens
InputCached inputOutput
Standard$0.3—$2.5
Priority$0.54—$4.5
Flex$0.15—$1.25

Family Comparison: gemini-2.5

ModelContextMax outPricing
gemini-2.5-computer-use-preview-10-2025128K64K—
gemini-live-2.5-flash-preview———
gemini-2.5-flash-lite1.0M66K$0.1$0.4
gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview——$0.3$2.5
gemini-2.5-flash-image66K33K$0.3$2.5
gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-20251.0M66K$0.3$2.5
gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025131K8K$0.3$2.5
gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20——$0.3$2.5
gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-20251.0M66K$0.3$2.5
gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-25——$0.3$2.5
gemini-2.5-flash-preview-tts8K16K$0.3$2.5
gemini-2.5-flash1.0M66K$0.3$2.5
gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25——$1.25$10
gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06——$1.25$10
gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05——$1.25$10
gemini-2.5-pro-preview-tts8K16K$1.25$10
gemini-2.5-pro1.0M66K$1.25$10

API

GET/v1/models/vertex/gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025

gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025

The Live API enables low-latency, real-time voice and video interactions with Gemini 2.5 Flash. It processes continuous streams of audio, video, or text to deliver immediate, human-like spoken responses, creating a natural conversational experience for your users.

Changes · 12 entries
gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025updatee3d7dedAug 31, 2026, 04:13 AM
descriptionThe Interactions API is now generally available. We recom...→The Live API enables low-latency, real-time voice and vid...
gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025update88d97e5Jun 30, 2026, 04:49 AM
descriptionThe Live API enables low-latency, real-time voice and vid...→The Interactions API is now generally available. We recom...
gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025update36c567eMar 27, 2026, 07:38 PM
statusdeprecated→active
deprecation_date2025-12-12
successorgemini-3.1-flash-live-preview
gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025update02f1856Mar 27, 2026, 07:24 PM
statusactive→deprecated
deprecation_date2025-12-12
successorgemini-3.1-flash-live-preview
gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025updatefa2bbbbMar 24, 2026, 05:22 AM
descriptiona Latina Français Indonesia Italiano Polski Português – B...→The Live API enables low-latency, real-time voice and vid...
taglinea Latina Français Indonesia Italiano Polski Português – B...→The Live API enables low-latency, real-time voice and vid...
gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025update1cd659eMar 24, 2026, 04:19 AM
capabilitiesjson modeyes
gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025updateb301ebeMar 23, 2026, 11:47 PM
descriptiona Latina Français Indonesia Italiano Polski Português – B...
licenseproprietary
taglinea Latina Français Indonesia Italiano Polski Português – B...
open_weightno
gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025update2b100acMar 23, 2026, 05:30 AM
model_typechat
gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025update7a4f1f6Mar 22, 2026, 05:43 AM
modalitiesoutput["text","image"]→["text","image","audio"]
pricinginput$0.3output$2.5batch input$0.15batch output$1.25tiers[{"label":"Text tokens","unit":"Per 1M tokens","columns":...
gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025updateb50649fMar 21, 2026, 11:58 PM
tools["function_calling"]
endpoints["generateContent","streamGenerateContent"]
gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025updatec9a70c5Mar 21, 2026, 08:12 AM
knowledge_cutoffJanuary 2025→2025-01
gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025create7f5c66fMar 21, 2026, 05:16 AM