--- title: "Google prices Gemini Decisions at 10 cents a million tokens, with no output charge" description: "Bounded agent work, the routing and grading calls every AI system makes thousands of times a day, is being priced toward zero by the two biggest distribution owners in AI, days before Anthropic prices an IPO on premium tokens." publisher: "The Inference" section: "Model" published: 2026-11-12T15:39:28.783Z modified: 2026-11-12T15:39:28.783Z canonical: https://theinference.org/article/google-s-gemini-decisions-api-charges-0-10-a-million-input-tokens-no-output-charge-before-anthropic-s-ipo language: en keywords: "Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Model Pricing, IPOs" --- # Google prices Gemini Decisions at 10 cents a million tokens, with no output charge > Bounded agent work, the routing and grading calls every AI system makes thousands of times a day, is being priced toward zero by the two biggest distribution owners in AI, days before Anthropic prices an IPO on premium tokens. [Google DeepMind](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/google-deepmind) [opened the Gemini Decisions API on Wednesday](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemini-decisions-api/), and its price card marks a break from how models have been sold. The endpoint's gemini-decision-1 model scores up to 1,000 yes/no, multiple-choice and rubric questions in a single forward pass over one multimodal input of up to 256K tokens, returning confidence scores in 150 to 250 milliseconds [1]. The pricing is the news: $0.10 per million input tokens, zero output tokens billed, no thinking-token, OCR or transcription charges [1]. Against its own cheapest chat tier, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, run through the Interactions API, Google's standard chat-completion endpoint, [Google](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/alphabet) says Decision 1 cost $0.88 on its shared benchmark suite versus $4.14, a 4.7x self-undercut [5]. Google is also its own first customer: Gemini Notebook, its research notebook product, uses the endpoint to route queries to the right model tier, at up to 40% lower latency on everyday requests [1]. ## Everyone sells bounded judgment now Google is not alone in repricing judgment. [Meta](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/meta) launched Muse Ember on November 9 at the same $0.10 per million input tokens, plus $0.50 per million output [3]. [OpenAI](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/openai)'s Decisions API, generally available since October 22 on GPT-6 Luna, also charges $0.10 input with free output, and offers $0.01 cache reads for reused reference material [5]. TypeSafe's Jev, a cheaper classification model, undercuts them at $0.042; Nace AI's Drex Max, a document and tool-use model, sits at $0.03 [5]. *Chart: **Five vendors price decision calls at ten cents or less** Bar chart of input price per million tokens for decision models* *Listed input price per million tokens, output free where noted; sources: VentureBeat (11 Nov 2026), Google blog (11 Nov 2026), TheStreet via Yahoo Finance (11 Nov 2026). [1][3][5]* ## Anthropic prices an IPO into a ten-cent market The timing lands hardest on [Anthropic](https://theinference.org/markets/companies/anthropic), which [prices its Nasdaq IPO on November 18](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/10/anthropic-sets-price-range-of-70-to-78-in-upcoming-ipo.html): 825 million shares at $70 to $78, up to a $1.405 trillion fully diluted valuation, off $33.24 billion of nine-month revenue [4]. That valuation assumes [premium token prices](https://theinference.org/article/anthropic-cuts-fable-5-2-prices-20-on-ipo-roadshow-eve-and-google-and-broadcom-shareholders-carry-the-bill) hold. But an IPO buyer underwriting $33 billion of revenue on expensive tokens is watching the two biggest distribution owners in AI converge on ten cents for routing, policy checks and grading, the calls every agent makes thousands of times a day [4]. ## At 10,000 inquiries, model fees come to $2.25 [TheStreet's arithmetic](https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/metas-10-cent-ai-model-151700704.html) shows why: 10,000 customer inquiries at 1,000 input and 250 output tokens each run about $2.25 in Muse Ember fees [3]. At that level, model cost stops being the line item; agent plumbing becomes the product. The number to watch is Google's blended price per token: whether Gemini revenue grows faster than the average price per call falls. Output-free pricing for agent-control work already has three adopters, with Google, OpenAI and TypeSafe all billing $0 output [5]. A fourth would make it the standard. *Chart: **Three of four decision vendors bill nothing for output tokens** Bar chart of output price per million tokens: Meta Muse Ember charges $0.50, Gemini Decision 1, OpenAI GPT-6 Luna and TypeSafe Jev charge nothing* *Listed output price per million tokens, November 2026. Sources: VentureBeat (11 Nov 2026), TheStreet via Yahoo Finance (11 Nov 2026). [3][5]* ## Takeaway Google, OpenAI and Meta have converged on ten cents per million input tokens for bounded decision calls, days before Anthropic prices a $1.4 trillion IPO on premium token pricing. ## Sources 1. [Google DeepMind blog, "Gemini Decisions API: Fast, calibrated multimodal decisions", 11 Nov 2026](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemini-decisions-api/) 3. [TheStreet via Yahoo Finance, "Meta's 10-cent AI model raises a big question for business", 11 Nov 2026](https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/metas-10-cent-ai-model-151700704.html) 4. [CNBC, "Anthropic sets IPO price range of $70 to $78, looks to start trading Nov. 19, sources say", 10 Nov 2026](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/10/anthropic-sets-price-range-of-70-to-78-in-upcoming-ipo.html) 5. [VentureBeat, "Google's Gemini Decision 1 model scores up to 1,000 questions in one API call", 11 Nov 2026](https://venturebeat.com/technology/googles-gemini-decision-1-model-scores-up-to-1-000-questions-in-one-api-call) --- Google prices Gemini Decisions at 10 cents a million tokens, with no output charge — The Inference. Canonical: https://theinference.org/article/google-s-gemini-decisions-api-charges-0-10-a-million-input-tokens-no-output-charge-before-anthropic-s-ipo