Google drops new Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview, says it excels at coding

The Lmarena leaderboard has a new top contender, after Google launched its new, most advanced reasoning model last night.

Google touts it as especially good for developers, improving on what many felt was already the best coding model.

«Go-to for developers»
The model, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview, aims to become the «go-to model for developers,» and can deliver video to code from a simple YouTube video, or you could create your own to describe the problem you’re solving.

The model can also take cues from dictation and audio files, meaning you can simply talk to it to guide it through your work.

Google also says it is much better at front-end development, like matching fonts, margins and colors and then writing CSS code for it automatically.

Available in AI Studio
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview should be available in Google AI Studio, along with the API.

It is, however, rather expensive — costing $1.25 for input of less than 200K tokens and $10 for output. More than 200K tokens will set you back $2.50 for input and $15.00 for output, which is a tad higher than GPT 4.1’s pricing.

There is no news about when it will be available on the free tier, which still lists Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental as the current model, and that is the previous one.

According to several posts on /r/singularity today, the new Gemini is in fact better at coding, but thinks a little longer, and seems to have regressed in other areas, like creative writing.

Read more: Google’s announcement blog, Deepmind’s overview, Google Vertex capabilities, writeup on TechCrunch, 9to5Google, and r/singularity is full of it today.