Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clips

Google rolled out Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash on November 5, 2026. In Google Keyword Blog's report, Anish Nangia, Product Manager at Google DeepMind, describes native 15-second video, up from 10 seconds in Omni 1.1, plus improved reference adherence and multi-turn conversational editing. Google dropped the price 30% from Gemini Omni 1.1, to $0.07 per second for 720p, and made the model generally available on the Gemini API and in Gemini for business.

This piece is for Gemini API developers, Google Cloud teams, and creators in Flow, Google Vids, the Gemini app, and Google Ads. It covers clip length, price, references, speech, camera moves, where each surface turns the model on, and the limits Google still names.

What Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash shipped

Native generation and editing run up to 15 seconds, with duration in one-second increments from 3 to 15 seconds, for a complete story, a product explainer, or a full social ad. Inputs can mix character, product, or style images, motion clips up to three seconds, and audio cues. Omni 1.2 Flash "holds onto those details from start to finish," so faces, garments, packaging typography, and brand colors stay consistent across camera angles. Product photography or character sheets can become virtual try-on clips, catalog spins, and branded video ads.

Multi-turn editing covers the full 15-second clip. A later turn swaps a product or background, changes lighting or weather, or switches aspect ratio. One demo moves the background from a striped pavilion tent to an oak forest, a stable with a white horse, a market fair, and a stone castle, keeping both characters' performances, armor reflections, and camera framing. Multi-turn edits produce ad variants for different audiences and placements. Businesses, startups, and creatives are already using the model in their workflows.

What changed for builders in Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

Versus Gemini Omni 1.1, Google dropped the price 30% and set 720p at $0.07 per second. That is the only per-second rate in the announcement. The 1080p and 4K upscales have no separate price listed. Native length goes from 10 seconds to 15, in one-second steps from 3 to 15. Drafts run at 360p or 720p, then upscale to 1080p or 4K. A follow-up edit fixes one detail on the existing clip. Motion references used as a guide stop at three seconds.

Given the same static studio-lighting exhibition poster and five-layer animation prompt, Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash "does not match the reference image as closely as 1.2 does." Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash builds the poster layer by layer on the dusty-pink cyclorama, rising the hexagonal plinth, assembling ribbed glass, a warm filament, faceted crystal, and coiled-cord letterforms for HALO, GLOW, and LUMEN. Material, shadow, and typography stay locked through the final frame. Characters, objects, products, props, and environments show less visual drift or morphing from the first frame to the last, including across interpolated keyframes and extended clips.

How to install or upgrade Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

The model is on the Gemini API, and Google says this is the first general availability for Gemini Omni, including Gemini for business, on Google Cloud's enterprise-grade infrastructure and security. Developers prototype in Google AI Studio, then use the interactive starter apps and the developer documentation and pricing. Businesses work in the Google Cloud console and build enterprise solutions with the API. Provisioned Throughput is available, and outputs carry an imperceptible SynthID watermark. This release publishes no package-update command, slash-command model switch, pinned launch flag, or default-model command.

Gemini API: generally available
Prototype in Google AI Studio
Interactive starter apps
Developer documentation and pricing

Model: Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash
Gemini for business: generally available

Google Cloud console
Enterprise solutions with the API
Provisioned Throughput

Flow: direct scenes and multi-turn edits
Google Vids: 15-second clips at no additional cost
Google account or Google Workspace subscription
Gemini app: 15-second videos for Google AI Ultra subscribers
Google Ads: scale video campaigns

Flow handles scene direction and multi-turn edits. Google Vids makes 15-second clips at no additional cost for a Google account or a Google Workspace subscription. The Gemini app is rolling 15-second video out to Google AI Ultra subscribers, and Google Ads is where campaigns scale. Settings are 3 to 15 seconds in one-second steps, a draft at 360p or 720p, 720p at $0.07 per second, and an upscale to 1080p or 4K. Edit turns reuse the same clip for a product, background, light, weather, or aspect-ratio change.

Gotchas and compatibility in Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

In the 1.1-versus-1.2 first-to-last test, 1.2 Flash connects an exterior start frame and an interior end frame in one continuous camera push, with subtle differences: the cats on the roof, the soup ladle turning into chopsticks, and other minor changes. Direction includes sweeping FPV flythroughs, zoom-outs, and orbits, with fewer unwanted jump cuts, steadier scale, and a more polished cinematic look. Two architectural photos drive one FPV flight across the piazza, through the bronze doors, and up through the Pantheon's coffered dome to the oculus, with zero jump cuts.

One crash zoom-out goes from a tight shoreline close-up to an aerial island vista in a single 10-second shot, with natural scale and zero cuts. Dialogue is more fluid, with clearer lip-sync and distinct multi-speaker conditioning, for multi-character scenes in Flow, explainers in Gemini for business, and Google Vids pieces with avatars, music, and narration. A conservatory test uses one scene image, four character and mouth references, and one-second voice references. Each sampled voice goes to the right character, with expressive lip-sync and natural comedic timing over 15 seconds.

What to watch after Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

The Gemini API and Gemini for business are generally available, with Provisioned Throughput on Google Cloud. Flow, Google Vids, and Google Ads are the other surfaces Google names for use now, and Vids adds 15-second clips at no additional cost for a Google account or a Google Workspace subscription. The Gemini app is still rolling out, and only to Google AI Ultra subscribers. Google says work continues on fast sports action, rapid script changes, and complex physics. Google calls the model ideal for businesses, developers, and creators producing video at scale.

One style frame becomes a 4-shot, 15-second macro science explainer with accurately spelled, motion-tracked callouts. Characters, text, and camera moves hold across longer shots, multiple turns, and transitions with no cuts. Motion transfer builds a rippling octopus on turn 1, then a dancer on turn 2 whose gown mirrors that motion. A try-on uses one model photo and front-and-back shots of three outfits for a 15-second run of 360-degree turns and match cuts, keeping the model's identity and each garment's cut, drape, and back details.