Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash cuts video price 30%

The headline number is 15 seconds. The useful change is the edit.

Google released Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash on Nov. 5. The video model now generates and edits clips up to 15 seconds long, up from 10 seconds in Omni 1.1, and you set the length in one-second steps from 3 to 15 seconds.

Cheaper per second, longer per clip

Google says the price is $0.07 per second of 720p video, 30% lower than Omni 1.1.

$0.07 a second.

At that rate, a full 15-second clip at 720p works out to $1.05 before any upscaling. You draft at 360p or 720p, then upscale to 1080p or 4K, Google says.

It is in the Gemini API, with Google AI Studio for prototyping, and generally available on Google Cloud, where enterprises can also buy Provisioned Throughput. Google Vids gets 15-second clips at no additional cost for anyone with a Google account or Workspace subscription. Flow gets multi-turn scene direction, Google Ads uses it to scale video campaigns, and the Gemini app rollout starts with Google AI Ultra subscribers.

Editing a clip beats rerolling it

Until now, fixing one wrong detail in an AI clip usually meant generating the whole thing again. That is reshooting a commercial because the coffee cup was the wrong color.

Google says Omni 1.2 Flash supports multi-turn conversational editing. You can swap a product or a background, or change the lighting, weather or aspect ratio, without regenerating the whole clip.

Google lists other changes:

• Guidance from reference images of a character, product or style, plus motion clips up to 3 seconds and audio cues.
• Better consistency from the first frame to the last, with keyframe interpolation and clip extension.
• Fewer unwanted jump cuts in complex camera moves.
• More natural speech, clearer lip-sync and multi-speaker conditioning.

Google published no benchmark scores. Its comparisons with Omni 1.1 are example clips, not numbers. It also says work is ongoing on fast sports action, rapid script changes and complex physics.

Every output carries an imperceptible SynthID watermark.

What it means if you pay per second

If you already generate video through the API, the price cut lands on your next invoice without any work from you. The editing is where you have to change habits.

Run a batch of your real shots and count how many need a small fix rather than a full redo. Every fix you make by edit instead of regeneration is a clip you did not pay for twice.

Use reference images of your product to keep it consistent across a campaign. And skip this model for fast sports or physics-heavy shots for now, on Google's own say-so.

More on video and image models lives in Creative.

Watch the rivals' price sheets

The next signal is whether competing video model makers match the 30% cut, and whether the Gemini app rollout reaches subscribers below Ultra.

Watch the price sheets. Then count your retakes.