Google Gemini through Squiid

What Google Gemini is

Google's Gemini API serves the Gemini model family through the Google AI developer platform. Its distinguishing features are context length, native multimodality and grounding: you can pass a long PDF, an audio file or a video directly in a request, use the Files API to reuse large inputs, and enable grounding with Google Search so answers cite current pages. Function calling and JSON schema responses work the same way they do on other providers, so swapping Gemini in behind an existing abstraction is usually mechanical. Gemini Flash models are positioned as the cheap high-throughput tier, while the Pro models take the harder reasoning work, and both are reachable from the same client.

For an app built with an agent, Gemini tends to be the model reached for when the input is big or is not text. Summarising a recorded sales call, reading a 300 page compliance document, pulling line items out of a scanned invoice, or captioning user-uploaded video all fit it well. It also shows up as the cheap high-volume tier for classification when latency and price matter more than the last few points of quality.

Why connect it through Squiid

Squiid holds the Google API key and routes requests to https://api.squiid.io/v1/google-gemini/... with Authorization: Bearer $SQUIID_API_KEY, and the Google GenAI SDKs work by pointing their base URL at the gateway (gateway convention). You do not create a Google Cloud project, attach a billing account or manage a service account JSON file to get started. Token and media usage is metered against prepaid credits at Google's listed rates, capped by your balance, and billed on the single Squiid invoice alongside everything else the project uses. Because provisioning is instant, an agent can add Gemini to a project in the same session it decides it needs long-context summarisation.

• One account, one key, one bill, one dashboard. Google Gemini sits beside every other service your project uses, on the same invoice and the same credit balance.
• Key custody. Squiid holds the Google Gemini credentials. Your code carries SQUIID_API_KEY, so GEMINI_API_KEY, GOOGLE_API_KEY, GOOGLE_GENAI_BASE_URL never land in a repository, a preview deployment or an agent’s context.
• Metering you can see. Every call is counted per service and per day, so you know what Google Gemini costs before the month ends.
• Pause on zero. When prepaid credits run out the gateway stops authorizing usage instead of running up a bill you did not fund.
• One rotation. Rotating the Squiid key cuts off every agent, worker and deployment at once, with no provider key to hunt down.

What you get

• Gemini text, vision and long-context models
• Audio, video and PDF input through the same key
• No Google Cloud project or service account file to set up
• Per-model usage metering in the Squiid dashboard
• Google list pricing with no Squiid markup

How to connect Google Gemini

One variable replaces the provider credentials this service would normally need. Requests go to the gateway and the official SDKs work by pointing their base URL at it (gateway convention).

# .env
# replaces GEMINI_API_KEY, GOOGLE_API_KEY, GOOGLE_GENAI_BASE_URL
SQUIID_API_KEY=sq_live_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

# every request: https://api.squiid.io/v1/google-gemini/...
# header:       Authorization: Bearer $SQUIID_API_KEY

Pricing through Squiid

Google charges per input and output token by model, with separate rates for audio and video input, at the provider's listed price. Squiid passes that through at par: one dollar of prepaid credit is one dollar of Google Gemini usage, with no markup and no per-request margin.

Google Gemini has no subscription attached on Squiid today. If a plan is required for a feature you need, it passes through at the provider’s listed price with no Squiid fee.

Squiid adds no markup to provider prices. There is a free plan at $0 a month with a 15% fee when you top up credits, Solo at $19.97 a month with a top-up fee that starts at 8% and falls to 3.5% as your spend grows, Team from $29.97 a seat a month with the same ladder one point lower, and Custom with a rate of 3% or less. Credits are prepaid, so Google Gemini usage stops when the balance reaches zero rather than producing an invoice you did not fund. Auto top-up with a cap keeps production running without handing anyone an open-ended card.

If you leave

Nothing to move: Google Gemini is usage-metered, so leaving means creating your own Google Gemini key and pointing the client at it. Squiid never owns your code, your schema or your domain, and the gateway speaks Google Gemini's own API, so the client change is a base URL. The handover page lists what happens for every provider in the catalogue.

Works with every coding agent

Google Gemini through Squiid is just an HTTP call with a bearer token, so every agentic coding tool can use it with the single key already in your environment:

• Claude Code
• Cursor
• ChatGPT
• Codex
• Grok
• Gemini CLI
• GitHub Copilot
• Windsurf
• Perplexity
• Devin
• Replit
• v0
• Lovable
• Cline

Vibe coding a feature on Google Gemini usually means asking for it in plain language and letting the agent write the integration. Because the key is Squiid’s rather than the provider’s, it can do that without ever holding a credential that could be leaked, logged or committed.