Google AI Pricing Update for Live Translation

Google AI updated pricing for Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, increasing rates from $3.50 or $0.0053/min to $21.00 or $0.0315/min for audio input, with billing based on total input and output audio token consumption.

Jun 9, 2026

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Affected

Google AI · live-translation

Pricing Change

Cost impact

High · 4/5

Estimated from pricing and window changes

Migration pressure

Medium · 2/5

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Cost

High

Score 4/580%

Quality

Low

Score 0/50%

Migration

Medium

Score 2/540%

Reliability

Low

Score 0/50%

Compliance

Low

Score 0/50%

Pricing change may impact budgeting and cost management for users of Gemini 3.5 Live Translate.

Changes

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Before

Last updated 2026-06-02 UTC.
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Missing the information I need","missingTheInformationINeed","thumb-down"],["Too complicated / too many steps","tooComplicatedTooManySteps","thumb-down"],["Out of date","outOfDate","thumb-down"],["Samples / code issue","samplesCodeIssue","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2026-06-02 UTC."],[],[]]

After

Live
Live Translate
Live Translation
Gemini 3.5 Live Translate
gemini-3.5-live-translate-preview
Our low-latency, real-time speech to speech translation model that supports 70+ languages.
$3.50 or $0.0053/min *  (audio)
$21.00 or $0.0315/min *  (audio)
*  Billing is based on total input and output audio token consumption, calculated at a rate of 25 tokens per second of audio, equating to an effective price of approximately $0.0368 per minute.
Last updated 2026-06-09 UTC.
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Missing the information I need","missingTheInformationINeed","thumb-down"],["Too complicated / too many steps","tooComplicatedTooManySteps","thumb-down"],["Out of date","outOfDate","thumb-down"],["Samples / code issue","samplesCodeIssue","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2026-06-09 UTC."],[],[]]

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