Grounding with Google Search- Detailed Costing

[ManuJose]

I am looking to understand the costs involved in Gemini API when using Grounding with Google search feature

According to the documentation, the costs involved in grounding via Google search would include:

• Cost of Input Tokens
• Cost of Output Tokens
• Cost of Grounding (regardless of the tokens involved)- $35 per 1000 request 

Once a Google search is performed with the input query, data will be fetched from relevant website links and used as context for the LLM. Are these context tokens considered as Input tokens as well? If so, can customers view the context provided or get an approximation of the tokens fetched as context?. 

Additionally, what happens if the query is complex and requires multiple searches? Will this be treated as a single grounding request or multiple requests(based on the number of websearches), depending on the query? For example, consider the following query: “What were the main topics discussed in the recent G7 summit, and provide a brief write-up for each topic, along with the most recent news related to them.”

[NorieRam]

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