Comment by jerryliu12

Gemini 2.5 Pro is pretty expensive, mostly because videos take up a lot of tokens. It's roughly 1 million input tokens/hr, with a relatively insignificant amount of output tokens. Fortunately, Gemini has a very generous free tier, which is more than enough to cover daily usage. If you set up one paid project (and just don't consume any tokens), you can still use the free tier on a different project, and they can't train on your data.