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Gemini 2.5 Pro

Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google DeepMind's flagship large language model — a 2-million-token-context multimodal system with industry-leading video and document understanding. It ships through Vertex AI, Gemini app, and Workspace, making it the natural choice for teams already inside the Google Cloud ecosystem.

Model specs

Vendor
Google
Family
Gemini 2.5
Released
2025-03
Context window
2,000,000 tokens
Modalities
text, vision, audio, video, code
Input price
$1.25/M tok
Output price
$10/M tok
Pricing as of
2026-04-20

Strengths

  • Largest context window among major frontier models (2M tokens)
  • Leading video understanding, strong multilingual coverage
  • Competitive pricing vs. Claude Opus 4.7 / GPT-5 at comparable reasoning quality

Limitations

  • Behind Claude Opus 4.7 on hard coding agent tasks
  • Tool-use ecosystem less mature than OpenAI / Anthropic
  • Safety filters can be aggressive on borderline prompts

Use cases

  • Long-context research — multi-paper synthesis, codebase review
  • Video analysis — summarise lectures, extract timestamps
  • Document OCR and structured extraction (tables, forms)
  • Workspace-integrated agents (Gmail, Docs, Drive)

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreAs of
MMLU-Pro≈85%2026-04
GPQA Diamond≈68%2026-04
Video-MME≈82%2026-04

Frequently asked questions

What is Gemini 2.5 Pro?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google DeepMind's flagship multimodal large language model with a 2-million-token context window, available via Vertex AI, the Gemini app, and Google Workspace integrations.

How does Gemini 2.5 Pro compare to Claude Opus 4.7?

Gemini 2.5 Pro has the largest context window (2M vs Claude Opus 4.7's 1M) and leads on video understanding. Claude Opus 4.7 is stronger on long-horizon coding agents and tool-call reliability.

What is Gemini 2.5 Pro best at?

Long-context document and codebase analysis, video understanding, and Google Workspace-integrated agents. Its 2M-token window is uniquely useful for whole-codebase or multi-document workflows.

Sources

  1. Google AI — Gemini models — accessed 2026-04-20
  2. Google Cloud — Vertex AI pricing — accessed 2026-04-20