Google · Released Apr 14, 2026Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview
Vision-language model for embodied reasoning: spatial understanding, task planning, and physical-world agentic robotics.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $1.00per 1M tokens
- Output
- $5.00per 1M tokens
- Context
- 131K66K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $1.00per million tokens
- Output
- $5.00per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $2.00pricier than 70% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $4.50 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $50.00 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $500.00 |
Median of 1 paid API provider on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview yet.
The details
- Lab
- Released
- Apr 14, 2026
- Knowledge cutoff
- Jan 2025
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens
- Max output
- 65,536 tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Images, Audio, Video
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- Always on
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- Yes
- Weights
- Proprietary
- Availability
- 1 API providerlisted on models.dev
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About Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview
How much does Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview cost?
Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview costs $1.00 input / $5.00 output per million tokens (median across 1 API provider). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $2.00 per million tokens, more expensive than 70% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview?
Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview accepts up to 131,072 tokens per request and can write up to 65,536 tokens in one response.
How good is Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview yet.
Is Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview open source?
No. Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview is proprietary; you use it through an API or partner platforms.
What inputs does Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview support?
Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview accepts text, images, audio and video and replies in text. It is a reasoning model, supports tool calling and can return structured JSON output.
When was Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview released?
Google released Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview on Apr 14, 2026. Its training data runs to Jan 2025.
What are the best alternatives to Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are GLM-5V-Turbo (Z.ai (Zhipu), $1.20 / $4.00), DeepSeek V4 Pro (DeepSeek, $1.32 / $3.00), Seed 2.1 Pro (ByteDance Seed, $0.891 / $4.45) and Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) (xAI, $1.25 / $2.50).