Decisions API changelog

Gemini Decision launches with the Decisions API for zero-output-token decisions

Google released Gemini Decision and the Decisions API for fast, calibrated binary, categorical, and rubric decisions across text, images, audio, video, and PDFs with zero output tokens.

Who is affected:

Developers building classification, moderation, or evaluation pipelines can now use a dedicated decision model.

Suggested next step:

Review the Gemini Decision pricing and rate limits before adopting it.

Decisions API adds $0.001 charges for web grounding searches and URL fetches

Each web grounding search costs $0.001 in addition to input tokens for the added results. Each successful URL fetch costs $0.001 in addition to searches and input tokens.

Who is affected:

Developers who use web_grounding mode or URL fetching in the Decisions API pay extra per call.

Suggested next step:

Add the $0.001 per search and per fetch cost to your Decisions API budget before enabling web grounding.