Our take
Google AI Studio is Google's first-party inference platform for the Gemini model family, offering 44 tracked variants with a wide range of throughput tiers that trade speed against cost. It holds a verified security attestation and does not train on prompts, though EU-region hosting and zero-retention remain unverified in our data.
Use this when you need maximum throughput on an image-capable model — one variant reaches 465 tps. Pick the entry tier of Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite for budget-conscious text generation, or any tier when SOC 2 and a no-training policy are required. Skip it if you need confirmed EU data residency, a verified zero-retention option, or consistently fast throughput across every model variant.
- Widest throughput range for a single model — Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite spans 31 tps up to 186 tps, a 6× spread with the fastest tier twice the price of the slowest.
- Highest measured throughput in the sample set: 465 tps on Nano Banana 2 Lite Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image, 3.8× the next fastest tier.
- Strong compliance posture: SOC 2 attestation held and explicit no-training policy verified.
- Broad first-party catalogue — 44 tracked offers across Gemini 2.5, 3, 3.1 and 3.5 families including Flash, Flash Lite and image variants.
- Some tiers are extremely slow: Gemini 2.5 Flash at 2 tps is 93× slower than the fastest measured tier and 37× slower than its own Flash Lite variant at the same price point.
- EU data residency and zero-retention option both unverified in our data.
- Image model throughput mostly unmeasured — only one image variant has verified throughput.
Point your tools here
https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/openai/Model IDs on this page are LLMap's own slugs, built for browsing and comparing — not what Google AI Studio's API expects. Its own model identifier lives in the docs above.
Privacy & data handling
These answers cover requests sent to Google AI Studio through OpenRouter, as OpenRouter records them, last read 4 hours ago. For Google AI Studio's own API we hold no answer: check its terms. SOC 2 and the data processing agreement below are hand-checked, not part of that sync.
We have not dated this attestation or linked the report yet.
Prompt retention: 55 days.