As has been the case before, developers will be able to try out grounding for free in AI Studio, which is essentially Google’s playground for developers to test and refine their prompts, and access its latest large language models. Gemini API users will have to be on the paid tier and will pay $35 per 1,000 grounded queries.

AI Studio’s recently launched built-in compare mode makes it easy to see how the results of grounded queries differ from those that rely solely on the model’s own data.