Google adds pay-as-you-go billing and up to 20% commitment discounts for Gemini Enterprise

Google Cloud introduced pay-as-you-go billing for Gemini Enterprise with no base fee, Flexible Savings Plans that cut token costs 10% for one year or 20% for three, and per-project spend caps that pause agents. (Google Cloud Blog; Axios; CIO)

Pay-as-you-go can sit alongside per-seat subscriptions and is rolling out from select customers. Google also previewed deferred execution pricing that runs agent jobs on off-peak capacity at roughly half the inference cost; it was listed as coming soon. (Google Cloud Blog; Axios; CIO)