Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast, cost-effective, and reliable video generation

On November 6, 2026, Google made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available on Google Cloud; John Nack, Sr. Product Manager, Google Cloud, wrote in Google Cloud Blog's report. The model is built for everyday videos businesses make in volume, including product videos, virtual try-ons, and ads. It costs $0.07 per second of 720p video, 30% less than Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, with similar savings at other resolutions. Clips can run up to 15 seconds, up from 10, and it follows image, video, and audio references more closely than before.

This piece is for business users in Google Vids, teams waiting on chat video in Gemini for business, and developers embedding the model through the API. It covers what Google shipped on November 6, the price and length change from Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, drafts at 360p or 720p that upscale to 1080p or 4K, more natural speech, conversational edits, and limits such as allowlisted audio references.

What Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash shipped

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is production-ready on Google Cloud's enterprise-grade infrastructure and security, with Provisioned Throughput and an imperceptible SynthID watermark on outputs. Business users can create in Gemini for business and Google Vids. Developers call the API or embed it in applications and agents. Design and creative platforms are building it into their products so people create and edit video where they already work. Google calls the model fast, cost-effective, and reliable, and a closer match to image, video, and audio references than before.

Artlist, FLORA, invideo, Krea, Picsart, Runway, Photoroom, and QuickFrame AI already use it. Roee Peled, CPTO of Artlist, cites reference-based generation, video extension, and creative consistency, "helping our customers move from experimentation to professional content production at scale." Retailers use Gemini Omni to turn existing photos into product spins, lifestyle clips, try-on videos, and video ads. Matt Rouif, CEO and co-founder of Photoroom, chose Gemini Omni Flash for Video Ad Maker and Product Animator because it "balances quality, speed and cost."

What changed for builders in Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

720p costs $0.07 per second, 30% less than Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, with similar savings at other resolutions. No cache price or benchmark score is given. Length for generate and edit rises from 10 to 15 seconds. Stronger image and video adherence keeps products, characters, and brand details consistent from shot to shot. Shivam Rastogi, VP of Engineering at invideo, says evals showed it "sticks to the prompt, and the physics and sound feel real," and "15 seconds means a full scene in one go."

Drafts are made at 360p or 720p, then the best are upscaled to 1080p or 4K. Narek Hayrapetyan, Picsart's head of product and partnerships, says draft mode lets teams "iterate concepts in minutes, then render in 4K for TV-ready AI dramas," and text "stays crisp across frames." Dialogue is more fluid and natural-sounding, with clearer lip-sync and distinct multi-speaker conditioning. The same clip can swap a product, change lighting, or change camera angle. Andrew Taco Zhang of FLORA says a colorway or background edit leaves the product untouched.

How to install or upgrade Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

Business users start in Google Vids, combining generated clips with avatars, music, and voiceover for product explainers, teasers, social posts, and sales pitches. Chat in Gemini for business is coming soon, for a short video from a prompt or a product photo. The opening lists both surfaces; the get-started lines say try Google Vids now and mark Gemini for business as coming soon. No package install, /model switch, pinned launch flag, or default-model command is published. The paths from the post are the lines below.

Try it in Google Vids
Coming soon to Gemini for business

Try it in the Google Cloud console
Build with the API
See the pricing

Developers start in the Google Cloud console, build with the API, and use the published pricing. Applications and agents embed Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash through that API. No model ID, SDK package, gcloud flag, or Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash upgrade command is given. The release is the generally available model at $0.07 per second of 720p, with clips up to 15 seconds. Richard Girges, chief technology officer of QuickFrame AI, says 15-second 1080p video is a complete CTV ad in one generation for businesses of all sizes.

Gotchas and compatibility in Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

Audio references are gated behind allowlisting, even though the model follows them more closely than before. Image and video references carry the shot-to-shot consistency claim and are not described as allowlisted. The only dollar price is $0.07 per second of 720p. Other resolutions have similar savings, with no figures. Length stops at 15 seconds, up from 10. Drafts are 360p or 720p; 1080p and 4K are upscales. QuickFrame's CTV case is 15 seconds at 1080p. Every output carries an imperceptible SynthID watermark.

The same clip can swap a product, change lighting, or change camera angle instead of starting over. Andrew Taco Zhang says FLORA's video-to-video "takes footage into entirely new styles," and the product stays untouched even from detailed images and finished video. Numan Khan, creative specialist at Krea, says outputs "retain an amazing level of detail" while "making only the changes we ask for." Krea uses that for character and scene replacements. Runway uses Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash to produce and scale high-quality content, with enterprise collaborative tools for professional production.

What to watch after Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

Google will keep improving Gemini Omni based on feedback from what builders make. The chat path is still coming soon: a short video from a prompt or a product photo in Gemini for business chat. Audio references stay allowlisted. Narek Hayrapetyan says Gemini Omni 1.2 "fits the way our teams work," and general availability lets Picsart bring this quality to over 100M Picsart creators. Characters look and sound real, he says, as drafts move to 4K for TV-ready AI dramas.

Matt Rouif says Photoroom turns product photos into video ads that sell in minutes, calls 15-second video "a top user request," and cites general availability and SLAs for sellers and enterprise customers. Shivam Rastogi says that for fast video at scale it is "one of the best we've tested." Roee Peled says Artlist wants control and flexibility for professional production. Numan Khan plans character and scene replacements at Krea. Richard Girges says QuickFrame users launch CTV and social ads in minutes.