Imagen 4 API Pricing
Short answer
Imagen 4 costs $0.04 /image. Last verified 2026-06-17 from cloud.google.com. Confidence: Auto.
Imagen 4 is Google's dedicated text-to-image model, the cheapest path for bulk generation across three quality tiers.
Price per image
$0.04 /image
Price detailSame tiers, billed inside GCP
Capabilities
Resolution / specup to 1080p / 2K / 4K, Fast/Standard/Ultra
Modalitytext → image
ChannelGoogle Vertex AI
ProviderGoogle
Best for
PhotorealText-to-imageBulk
Flat per-image price per tier (no token math). Text-to-image only; use Nano Banana for conversational editing.
Last checked Auto
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