Gemini · Mid-tier · 1.0M context window
$0.0480 per call at 15,000 input / 1,500 output tokens.
Per call
$0.0480
10K calls/mo
$480
Cache savings
90% off input
Batch savings
50% off all
Adjust token counts, volume, and discount toggles to model your pdf summarization spend. Prices verified daily against provider pricing pages.
Call Gemini 3.1 Pro with the Google Generative AI SDK:
import google.generativeai as genai
model = genai.GenerativeModel("gemini-3.1-pro")
response = model.generate_content("Your prompt here")
# Cost: ~$0.0480 per call at standard rates
# Input: $2.00/MTok
# Output: $12.00/MTokPer-call cost for all models scoring 50+ on pdf summarization benchmarks. Hover for details.
Cheapest viable option: Gemini 3 Flash at $0.0120/call (75% less, 83/100 quality).
PDFs are the worst case for input cost: extracted text carries page furniture, headers, and footnotes that inflate token counts well past what the content warrants. Cleaning the extraction before sending it often cuts more cost than changing models. Long PDFs also routinely cross long-context pricing thresholds, so chunking is both a quality and a cost decision.
For Gemini 3.1 Pro specifically, that means output tokens cost 6.0x more than input, at $12.00 vs $2.00 per MTok. At this use case’s 15,000/1,500 token split, output accounts for 38% of the $0.0480 per-call cost.
| Direction | $/MTok | Tokens per call |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $2.00 | 15,000 |
| Output | $12.00 | 1,500 |
Caching drops input cost from $2.00 to $0.20/MTok. For repeated system prompts, that saves $0.0270 per call.
Submit requests asynchronously and receive 50% off all token costs. This works best for offline pipelines where latency requirements are flexible.
| Monthly volume | Cost per call | Standard monthly | Cached monthly | You save with caching |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 calls | $0.0480 | $480 | $210 | $270 |
| 50,000 calls | $0.0480 | $2,400 | $1,050 | $1,350 |
| 100,000 calls | $0.0480 | $4,800 | $2,100 | $2,700 |
| 500,000 calls | $0.0480 | $24,000 | $10,500 | $13,500 |
| 1,000,000 calls | $0.0480 | $48,000 | $21,000 | $27,000 |
Use Gemini 3.1 Pro for pdf summarization
Scores 80/100 (rank #2 of 88). Strong pick for production pdf summarization workloads.
Top-ranked: Gemini 3 Flash (83/100) at $0.0120/call
Gemini 3.1 Pro scores by task type. PDF Summarization highlighted.
| Task type | Confidence score | Rank out of 88 |
|---|---|---|
| Q&A | 87/100 | #4 |
| Classification | 86/100 | #3 |
| Code Review | 84/100 | #4 |
| Reasoning | 84/100 | #22 |
| Summarization(current page) | 80/100 | #2 |
| Creative Writing | 77/100 | #7 |
| Extraction | 75/100 | #5 |
| Code Generation | 57/100 | #24 |
Confidence scores are a third-party benchmark snapshot from week 26 of 2026. This snapshot is 17 weeks old, so treat the scores as directional and validate against your own evals.
9 models score 80+ on pdf summarization benchmarks, sorted by input rate. Cheapest: Gemini 3 Flash (75% less, 83/100 quality).
| Model | Provider | Input $/MTok | Output $/MTok | Quality | Per call | vs Gemini |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 3 Flash | Gemini | $0.50 | $3.00 | 83/100 | $0.0120 | 75% cheaper |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | Gemini | $0.75 | $3.75 | 75/100 | $0.0169 | 65% cheaper |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash | Gemini | $0.75 | $3.75 | 79/100 | $0.0169 | 65% cheaper |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | Gemini | $0.75 | $3.75 | 81/100 | $0.0169 | 65% cheaper |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Claude | $1.00 | $5.00 | 82/100 | $0.0225 | 53% cheaper |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | Gemini | $1.50 | $9.00 | 76/100 | $0.0360 | 25% cheaper |
| Grok 4.7 | Grok | $2.00 | $6.00 | 75/100 | $0.0390 | 19% cheaper |
| Claude Fable 5 | Claude | $10.00 | $50.00 | 77/100 | $0.2250 | 369% more |
| GPT 6 Astra | GPT | $10.00 | $50.00 | 76/100 | $0.2250 | 369% more |
Provider
Gemini
Tier
Mid-tier
Context
1.0M tokens
Released
Apr 2026
| Model | Tier | Input $/MTok | Output $/MTok | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | Fast / Budget | $1.50 | $9.00 | 1.0M |
| Gemini 3 Flash | Fast / Budget | $0.50 | $3.00 | 1.0M |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | Fast / Budget | $0.30 | $2.50 | 1.0M |
| Gemini 2.5 Computer Use | Fast / Budget | $1.25 | $10.00 | 128K |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | Fast / Budget | $0.30 | $2.50 | 1.0M |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Fast / Budget | $0.10 | $0.40 | 1.0M |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | Mid-tier | $1.25 | $10.00 | 1.0M |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite | Fast / Budget | $0.25 | $1.50 | 1.0M |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Custom Tools | Mid-tier | $2.00 | $12.00 | 1.0M |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | Fast / Budget | $0.75 | $3.75 | 1.0M |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash | Fast / Budget | $0.75 | $3.75 | 1.0M |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | Fast / Budget | $0.75 | $3.75 | 1.0M |
| Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash | Fast / Budget | $1.50 | $9.00 | 1.0M |
| Gemini Omni Flash | Fast / Budget | $1.50 | $9.00 | 1.0M |
| Gemini Robotics ER 2 | Fast / Budget | $1.00 | $5.00 | 131K |
You can compare Gemini 3.1 Pro head-to-head against any other model on our model comparison pages, or track how pricing has changed over time on the pricing history tracker.
See how Gemini 3.1 Pro costs change across different workload types.
Code Generation
$0.0520/call
Unit Test Generation
$0.0660/call
SQL Generation
$0.0150/call
API Generation
$0.0780/call
Code Refactoring
$0.0560/call
Code Review
$0.0340/call
PR Review
$0.0520/call
Security Review
$0.0420/call
Bug Detection
$0.0340/call
Document Summarization
$0.0320/call
Meeting Notes
$0.0400/call
Email Summarization
$0.0120/call
Chatbot
$0.0160/call
RAG Pipeline
$0.0300/call
Customer Support Bot
$0.0180/call
FAQ Bot
$0.0126/call
Data Extraction
$0.0200/call
JSON Extraction
$0.0156/call
Invoice Parsing
$0.0112/call
Resume Parsing
$0.0146/call
Chain of Thought
$0.0660/call
Legal Analysis
$0.0680/call
Math Reasoning
$0.0390/call
Financial Analysis
$0.0640/call
Content Moderation
$0.002200/call
Sentiment Analysis
$0.002200/call
Categorization
$0.003400/call
Intent Detection
$0.001800/call
Copywriting
$0.0250/call
Blog Writing
$0.0980/call
Marketing Copy
$0.0376/call
Product Descriptions
$0.0190/call
A typical pdf summarization call using Gemini 3.1 Pro costs about $0.0480 per call. This estimate uses 15,000 input tokens and 1,500 output tokens at standard rates. Standard rates are $2.00 per million input tokens and $12.00 per million output tokens.
Gemini 3.1 Pro scores 80 out of 100 on pdf summarization benchmarks overall. It ranks #2 across all 88 models in our cross-provider registry. The highest-ranked model for this task is Gemini 3 Flash from Gemini. That model scores 83/100 on this task type. Confidence scores are a third-party benchmark snapshot from week 26 of 2026. This snapshot is 17 weeks old, so treat the scores as directional and validate against your own evals.
The most affordable model for pdf summarization above 80/100 quality is Gemini 3 Flash. It comes from Gemini at $0.50 per million input tokens. Output costs $3.00 per million tokens with a quality score of 83/100. Switching from Gemini 3.1 Pro to Gemini 3 Flash saves about 75% per API call.
Three strategies lower Gemini 3.1 Pro costs for this task type effectively. Prompt caching gives a 90% discount on input tokens when reusing system prompts. The batch API gives 50% off all tokens for asynchronous processing workloads. Prompt optimization reduces token counts through more concise instructions and context windows. Combining caching with batching brings your cost from $0.0480 to about $0.002400 per call.
Gemini has 15 other models alongside Gemini 3.1 Pro today: Gemini 3.5 Flash at $1.50/$9.00 per million tokens (fast / budget), Gemini 3 Flash at $0.50/$3.00 per million tokens (fast / budget), Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite at $0.30/$2.50 per million tokens (fast / budget), Gemini 2.5 Computer Use at $1.25/$10.00 per million tokens (fast / budget), Gemini 2.5 Flash at $0.30/$2.50 per million tokens (fast / budget), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite at $0.10/$0.40 per million tokens (fast / budget), Gemini 2.5 Pro at $1.25/$10.00 per million tokens (mid-tier), Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite at $0.25/$1.50 per million tokens (fast / budget), Gemini 3.1 Pro Custom Tools at $2.00/$12.00 per million tokens (mid-tier), Gemini 3.6 Flash at $0.75/$3.75 per million tokens (fast / budget), Gemini 3.7 Flash at $0.75/$3.75 per million tokens (fast / budget), Gemini 3.8 Flash at $0.75/$3.75 per million tokens (fast / budget), Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash at $1.50/$9.00 per million tokens (fast / budget), Gemini Omni Flash at $1.50/$9.00 per million tokens (fast / budget), Gemini Robotics ER 2 at $1.00/$5.00 per million tokens (fast / budget). The right choice depends on whether your pdf summarization workload prioritizes quality, cost, or speed.
Gemini 3.1 Pro supports a context window of 1.0M tokens per API call. This sets the maximum combined length of your input prompt and generated response. For pdf summarization, typical calls use 15,000 input and 1,500 output tokens. That is well within this limit, leaving room for longer prompts or multi-turn conversations.
This calculator estimates costs based on published rates only. Connect your API usage to see where your money goes and which models drive your spend.