{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "gemini-omni-1-2-flash", "name": "Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash", "vendor": "Google", "vendorUrl": "https://ai.google.dev", "kind": "model", "category": "video-generation", "summary": "Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is Google's generally available video model. It generates and edits clips of up to 15 seconds with audio from text, images, short clips and keyframes, from $0.023 a second at 360p to $0.209 at 4K.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-omni-1-2-flash", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-omni-1-2-flash.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-omni-1-2-flash.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemini-omni-1-2-flash.json", "dns": "gemini-omni-1-2-flash.grade.anchorterminal.com", "license": "Closed model, used through the Gemini API and Google Cloud under Google's terms. The google-genai SDKs are Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "An `x-goog-api-key` from Google AI Studio on the Gemini API, per the Gemini API listing; on Google Cloud, a project with Gemini for business. Paid use needs billing on the Cloud project.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "$1.50 per million input tokens, $9 per million text output tokens and $12 per million video output tokens. Video bills at 5,792 tokens a second at 720p, about $0.07 a second; Google gives $0.023 a second at 360p, $0.104 at 1080p and $0.209 at 4K with upsampling. No free tier, Batch, Flex or Priority. From 3 December 2026 requests to Omni 1.1 Flash route to 1.2 Flash at 1.2 rates. Per the pricing page, 11 November 2026.", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in Google's announcement of 5 November 2026. Paid use is billed to a Cloud project, per the Gemini API listing.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-11" }, "docsUrl": "https://aistudio.google.com/docs/omni", "llmsTxt": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "video.generate", "video.edit", "video.image-to-video", "video.audio" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "model", "multimodal", "usage-priced", "closed-source", "llms-txt", "watermark", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-11-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 55.1, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 972, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1524, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.8", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 54, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 30, "reliability": 45, "schema": 69, "security": 50, "transparency": 72 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-11" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Google's generally available video model makes clips of up to 15 seconds with audio, edits them turn by turn and upscales drafts to 1080p or 4K, from $0.023 a second at 360p to $0.209 at 4K. It is paid only, the guide still describes Omni 1.1, and every quality claim is Google's.", "bestFor": "Short product, ad and explainer clips with audio where an agent needs to revise a clip over several turns rather than regenerate it.", "strengths": [ "Generally available on the Gemini API and Google Cloud, per Google's post of 5 November 2026", "Per-second rates published without a login: $0.023 at 360p, about $0.07 at 720p, $0.104 at 1080p, $0.209 at 4K", "Edits run turn by turn through previous_interaction_id instead of regenerating the clip", "Takes text, reference images, up to three short reference clips and first and last keyframes", "Paid-tier content isn't used to improve Google's products, and outputs carry a SynthID watermark" ], "weaknesses": [ "No free tier, per the pricing page", "The Omni guide, read on 11 November, still describes Omni 1.1 Flash and doesn't mention 1.2", "Length is set in the prompt with timecodes, not by a request field", "Editing or extending uploaded videos isn't available in the EEA, Switzerland or the UK", "Google says fast sports action, rapid script changes and complex physics are still weak" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call POST /v1beta/interactions with model gemini-omni-1.2-flash and response_format type video; 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5,792 output tokens a second at $12 per million" }, { "item": "Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, 1080p", "unit": "video-second", "usd": 0.104, "note": "With upsampling" }, { "item": "Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, 4K", "unit": "video-second", "usd": 0.209, "note": "With upsampling" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Google LLC", "domain": "google.com", "domainRegistered": "1997-09-15", "domainNote": "The endpoint is on googleapis.com, Google's API domain. google.com was registered in 1997.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms", "privacy": "https://policies.google.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://aistudio.google.com/status", "changelog": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-11-11", "score": 89 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-omni-1-2-flash.json", "live": { "slug": "gemini-omni-1-2-flash", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://google.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2030-04-01T00:00:00z", "checkedAt": "2026-11-13T16:15:44.621683591Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-13T15:54:29.187425516Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-13T16:15:44.621683591Z" } }, "answer": "Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash scores 55.1 (C) on agent readiness against OpenAI Sora API's 9.4 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "openai-sora", "name": "OpenAI Sora API", "vendor": "OpenAI", "vendorUrl": "https://developers.openai.com", "kind": "model", "category": "video-generation", "summary": "Discontinued OpenAI video generation API for the Sora 2 and Sora 2 Pro models.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-sora", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-sora.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-sora.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openai-sora.json", "dns": "openai-sora.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/openai/openai-python", "license": "Apache-2.0 (SDKs)", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.openai.com/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "openai" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "openai" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer OpenAI API key, the same key as the rest of the OpenAI API. The Videos API no longer accepts requests.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Was billed per second of video on the OpenAI API. The pricing page no longer lists Sora or any video model, so there's nothing left to buy (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing).", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Retired. The OpenAI API never offered machine payment for Sora (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 31723, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.openai.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "video.generate", "video.image-to-video", "video.audio" ], "tags": [ "official", "closed-source" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 9.4, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "Shut down 2026-09-24, so out of the ranking", "rankOf": 1524, "categoryRank": 21, "methodology": "0.8", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 15, "payments": 0, "reliability": 0, "schema": 15, "security": 0, "transparency": 65 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-11-11" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Six months' notice, from 24 March to 24 September 2026. Shut down on 2026-09-24, so every call fails.", "strengths": [ "Six months' notice, from 24 March to 24 September 2026", "The deprecations page names all five model IDs and snapshots that were removed", "It used the same key and SDKs as the rest of the OpenAI API, so removal needs no auth changes elsewhere" ], "weaknesses": [ "Shut down on 2026-09-24, so every call fails", "No replacement video model on the OpenAI API, and the guide says no one-to-one replacement exists", "The pricing page no longer lists any video model" ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't call /v1/videos. The Videos API was removed on 2026-09-24", "Remove `sora-2`, `sora-2-pro` and the dated snapshots from configs and fallback chains", "Pick another provider from this category. OpenAI has no video model on its API now" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 1, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.8", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 9.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 15, "payments": 0, "reliability": 0, "schema": 15, "security": 0, "transparency": 35 }, "provenanceScore": 95, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-11", "maintenance": "2026-11-11", "payments": "2026-11-11", "reliability": "2026-11-11", "schema": "2026-11-11", "security": "2026-11-11", "transparency": "2026-11-11" }, "last": "2026-11-11", "lastMoved": "2026-10-08", "oldest": "2026-11-11", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "# Retired on 2026-09-24. The Videos API no longer accepts requests.\ncurl https://api.openai.com/v1/videos -H \"Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/video.generate", "tool": "https://letme.dev/openai-sora" }, "sameCompany": [ "openai-api", "openai-embeddings", "openai-guardrails", "openai-moderation", "openai-image-api", "openai-speech-to-text", "gpt-live", "openai-realtime", "openai-agents-sdk", "openai-decisions-api", "openai-agents-api", "openai-codex", "openai-dots", "gpt-oss-120b", "gpt-oss-20b" ], "area": "content", "retired": "2026-09-24", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "OpenAI OpCo, LLC", "domain": "openai.com", "domainRegistered": "2007-01-19", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://openai.com/policies/services-agreement/", "privacy": "https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.openai.com", "changelog": "https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "openai.com was registered in 2007, before OpenAI existed", "Facts reused from the openai-api listing" ], "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-sora.json" }, "edges": [ { "by": 68, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "gemini-omni-1-2-flash", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading for gemini-omni-1.2-flash on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Released and generally available on 5 November 2026; the SDKs added it to the Interactions model list on 10 November (30). Deprecations with earliest dates and no stated minimum notice (4 of 12). Churn in Google's video line: every Veo model on the Gemini API shut down by 22 October, and from 3 December 2026 requests to Omni 1.1 Flash are routed to 1.2 Flash and billed at its rates, four weeks after this release (4 of 8). Dated SDK and platform changelogs (15). SDK replies not sampled (5 of 10). Current SDKs in five languages (15). Runtimes stated (10). 30 + 4 + 4 + 15 + 5 + 15 + 10 = 83.", "b": "Read on the model lines. No release since the 2025-12-08 snapshot and none to come; the changelog re-read on 11 November has no video entry since the removal (0). Notice was six months, from 24 March to 24 September 2026, which meets OpenAI's published minimum of at least six months for generally available models, but no replacement was named (15). No public channel for Sora remains (0). The official SDKs live on, but they no longer reach a video model (0). 0+15+0+0+0 = 15." }, "scores": { "a": 83, "b": 15 } }, { "by": 54, "category": "schema", "leads": "gemini-omni-1-2-flash", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading for gemini-omni-1.2-flash on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Called through the Interactions API, which the platform's Discovery document doesn't type; the SDK's generated Interactions types list the model (10 of 25). llms.txt with Markdown twins (10). The Omni guide, read on 11 November, covers Omni 1.1 Flash on the same API and lists what isn't supported (system instructions, temperature, negative prompts, audio references, YouTube sources) and the regional limits; it doesn't name 1.2 (16 of 20). Aspect ratio (16:9 or 9:16), resolution (360p, 720p, 1080p, 4k) and delivery are enumerated; length is set in the prompt, not a field (10 of 15). REST and SDK examples; a failed generation sets the file state to FAILED, and other error codes aren't documented beyond the platform's page (8 of 15). Dated SDK and platform changelogs (15). 10 + 10 + 16 + 10 + 8 + 15 = 69.", "b": "What's left is the record. No live contract or reference for /v1/videos to grade (0 for the contract, llms.txt coverage, descriptions, typed inputs and examples). The video generation guide, re-read on 11 November, still opens with a banner saying the Sora 2 models and Videos API were shut down on 24 September 2026, that no one-to-one replacement API is available and that the guide is kept for historical reference, but it describes an API that can't be called and names no migration path, so it earns nothing here. The deprecations page lists the API and all five model IDs and snapshots with the announcement (24 March 2026) and removal (24 September 2026) dates (15)." }, "scores": { "a": 69, "b": 15 } }, { "by": 54, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "gemini-omni-1-2-flash", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "Read on the lines the Veo listing used for video models. Model reading for gemini-omni-1.2-flash on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Per the Omni guide (written for 1.1 on the same API), the video comes back in the response, inline as base64 or as a Google-hosted file to poll until ACTIVE with delivery uri for outputs over 4 MB (12 of 15). No callback (0 of 10). Resolution, aspect ratio and delivery control output size, and edits run turn by turn through previous_interaction_id without regenerating from scratch (10). No list of past jobs found (0 of 10). Standard Google error statuses on the platform, with FAILED as the only Omni-specific state (12 of 14). No idempotency key, and whether failed generations are billed isn't stated (5 of 20). Only model and input are required, with 720p and 16:9 as defaults, and SDKs in five languages plus the CLI (15). 12 + 0 + 10 + 0 + 12 + 5 + 15 = 54.", "b": "Nothing callable remains, so context cost, errors and retries can't be assessed (0)." }, "scores": { "a": 54, "b": 0 } }, { "by": 50, "category": "security", "leads": "gemini-omni-1-2-flash", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading for gemini-omni-1.2-flash on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Keys bound to a service account and restricted to the Gemini API, with no scopes and a token accepted in the URL (15 of 30, the platform's deduction). The pricing page, read on 11 November, lists no free tier for Omni 1.2 Flash, and paid-tier content isn't used to improve Google's products (15 of 20). Retention of generated videos isn't stated in the guide (5 of 15). Request logs described for Generate Content, not confirmed for Interactions video calls (10 of 15). security.txt and a reward programme, no certification naming the API (5 of 20). Outputs carry a SynthID watermark, and uploads of minors and some recognisable people are refused in the EEA, Switzerland and the UK. 15 + 15 + 5 + 10 + 5 = 50.", "b": "No live surface to secure, read as for other discontinued listings (smithery, playht-tts). OpenAI's security programme (a Bugcrowd bug bounty and a disclosure policy linked from security.txt on openai.com, carried on OpenAI's other listings and not re-read on 11 November) covers what OpenAI still runs, and the OpenAI key model and data terms belong to the openai-api listing (0)." }, "scores": { "a": 50, "b": 0 } }, { "by": 45, "category": "reliability", "leads": "gemini-omni-1-2-flash", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading for gemini-omni-1.2-flash on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Status page at aistudio.google.com/status with no readable components or history (10 of 20) and no readable incident record (5 of 30). Platform rate-limit tiers; the public rate-limit page has no Omni 1.2 row (5 of 15). Backoff guidance for 429 and 503 and SDK retries (15). No SLA read for the Gemini API route, and the Omni guide says provisioned throughput isn't supported there; Google's post puts it on Google Cloud (0). Google's post of 5 November says generally available, and the SDK commit marks the model GA (10). 10 + 5 + 5 + 15 + 0 + 10 = 45.", "b": "Retired, so there's nothing left to measure. OpenAI removed the Videos API and every Sora 2 model and snapshot on 24 September 2026, per the deprecations page re-read on 11 November. status.openai.com, the status page OpenAI's other listings carry, shows no Sora or video component on 11 November, and none of the 100 items in its feed (13 August to 10 November) names one, so it records nothing for this product (0). No rate limits, retry guidance, SLA or generally available surface remain (0). We sent no request to the API to test it." }, "scores": { "a": 45, "b": 0 } }, { "by": 30, "category": "payments", "leads": "gemini-omni-1-2-flash", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading for gemini-omni-1.2-flash on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. No machine payment protocol (0). The pricing page lists $1.50 per million input tokens, $12 per million video output tokens and effective rates of $0.023 a second at 360p, about $0.07 at 720p, $0.104 at 1080p and $0.209 at 4K, without a login (20). No free tier (0). A Google account and AI Studio key, or a Cloud project, come first (0). 0 + 20 + 0 + 0 = 20. Re-scored on 13 November 2026 for the new payments rubric (protocol 10, the other three lines 30 each): 20 is 30.", "b": "Nothing to buy. There was never a machine payment protocol (0), the pricing page listed no Sora or video model on 11 November (0), there was no free tier (0) and sign-up needed a person (0). Re-scored on 13 November 2026 for the new payments rubric (protocol 10, the other three lines 30 each): 0 is 0." }, "scores": { "a": 30, "b": 0 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "Model API", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Google", "b": "OpenAI", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.openai.com/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Closed model, used through the Gemini API and Google Cloud under Google's terms. 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OpenAI Sora API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.openai.com/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash and OpenAI Sora API without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 45 against 0", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 69 against 15", "Agent ergonomics, 54 against 0", "Security \u0026 auth, 50 against 0", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 0", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 15", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 65" ], "also": [ "Still running. OpenAI Sora API has shut down" ], "goodFor": "Short product, ad and explainer clips with audio where an agent needs to revise a clip over several turns rather than regenerate it.", "slug": "gemini-omni-1-2-flash", "watchFor": "No free tier, per the pricing page" }, { "aheadOn": null, "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "Nothing new. 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"openai-sora": 15, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 7, "edge": "gemini-omni-1-2-flash", "gemini-omni-1-2-flash": 72, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "openai-sora": 65, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "OpenAI Sora API shut down on 2026-09-24. Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash scores 55.1 (C) on agent readiness against OpenAI Sora API's 9.4 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do video generation.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "gemini-omni-1-2-flash": "Google's generally available video model makes clips of up to 15 seconds with audio, edits them turn by turn and upscales drafts to 1080p or 4K, from $0.023 a second at 360p to $0.209 at 4K. It is paid only, the guide still describes Omni 1.1, and every quality claim is Google's.", "openai-sora": "Six months' notice, from 24 March to 24 September 2026. Shut down on 2026-09-24, so every call fails." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-omni-1-2-flash-vs-openai-sora", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-omni-1-2-flash-vs-openai-sora.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-omni-1-2-flash-vs-openai-sora.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-omni-1-2-flash-vs-openai-sora.min.md" }, "markdown": "OpenAI Sora API shut down on 2026-09-24. Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash scores 55.1 (C) on agent readiness against OpenAI Sora API's 9.4 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do video generation.\n\n- Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: grade C, 55.1/100, rank #972 of 1524. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-omni-1-2-flash.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemini-omni-1-2-flash.json\n- OpenAI Sora API: grade F, 9.4/100, rank retired, not ranked. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-sora.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openai-sora.json\n- Best video generation for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/video-generation/index.md\n- All 203 video comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/video-generation/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash (C)\n\nGood for: Short product, ad and explainer clips with audio where an agent needs to revise a clip over several turns rather than regenerate it.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 45 against 0\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 69 against 15\n- Agent ergonomics, 54 against 0\n- Security \u0026 auth, 50 against 0\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 0\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 15\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 65\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Still running. OpenAI Sora API has shut down\n\nWatch for: No free tier, per the pricing page\n\n### OpenAI Sora API (F)\n\nGood for: Nothing new. It shut down on 2026-09-24.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: Shut down on 2026-09-24, so every call fails\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash +68\n\n- Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash (83): Model reading for gemini-omni-1.2-flash on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Released and generally available on 5 November 2026; the SDKs added it to the Interactions model list on 10 November (30). Deprecations with earliest dates and no stated minimum notice (4 of 12). Churn in Google's video line: every Veo model on the Gemini API shut down by 22 October, and from 3 December 2026 requests to Omni 1.1 Flash are routed to 1.2 Flash and billed at its rates, four weeks after this release (4 of 8). Dated SDK and platform changelogs (15). SDK replies not sampled (5 of 10). Current SDKs in five languages (15). Runtimes stated (10). 30 + 4 + 4 + 15 + 5 + 15 + 10 = 83.\n- OpenAI Sora API (15): Read on the model lines. No release since the 2025-12-08 snapshot and none to come; the changelog re-read on 11 November has no video entry since the removal (0). Notice was six months, from 24 March to 24 September 2026, which meets OpenAI's published minimum of at least six months for generally available models, but no replacement was named (15). No public channel for Sora remains (0). The official SDKs live on, but they no longer reach a video model (0). 0+15+0+0+0 = 15.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash +54\n\n- Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash (69): Model reading for gemini-omni-1.2-flash on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Called through the Interactions API, which the platform's Discovery document doesn't type; the SDK's generated Interactions types list the model (10 of 25). llms.txt with Markdown twins (10). The Omni guide, read on 11 November, covers Omni 1.1 Flash on the same API and lists what isn't supported (system instructions, temperature, negative prompts, audio references, YouTube sources) and the regional limits; it doesn't name 1.2 (16 of 20). Aspect ratio (16:9 or 9:16), resolution (360p, 720p, 1080p, 4k) and delivery are enumerated; length is set in the prompt, not a field (10 of 15). REST and SDK examples; a failed generation sets the file state to FAILED, and other error codes aren't documented beyond the platform's page (8 of 15). Dated SDK and platform changelogs (15). 10 + 10 + 16 + 10 + 8 + 15 = 69.\n- OpenAI Sora API (15): What's left is the record. No live contract or reference for /v1/videos to grade (0 for the contract, llms.txt coverage, descriptions, typed inputs and examples). The video generation guide, re-read on 11 November, still opens with a banner saying the Sora 2 models and Videos API were shut down on 24 September 2026, that no one-to-one replacement API is available and that the guide is kept for historical reference, but it describes an API that can't be called and names no migration path, so it earns nothing here. The deprecations page lists the API and all five model IDs and snapshots with the announcement (24 March 2026) and removal (24 September 2026) dates (15).\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash +54\n\n- Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash (54): Read on the lines the Veo listing used for video models. Model reading for gemini-omni-1.2-flash on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Per the Omni guide (written for 1.1 on the same API), the video comes back in the response, inline as base64 or as a Google-hosted file to poll until ACTIVE with delivery uri for outputs over 4 MB (12 of 15). No callback (0 of 10). Resolution, aspect ratio and delivery control output size, and edits run turn by turn through previous_interaction_id without regenerating from scratch (10). No list of past jobs found (0 of 10). Standard Google error statuses on the platform, with FAILED as the only Omni-specific state (12 of 14). No idempotency key, and whether failed generations are billed isn't stated (5 of 20). Only model and input are required, with 720p and 16:9 as defaults, and SDKs in five languages plus the CLI (15). 12 + 0 + 10 + 0 + 12 + 5 + 15 = 54.\n- OpenAI Sora API (0): Nothing callable remains, so context cost, errors and retries can't be assessed (0).\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash +50\n\n- Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash (50): Model reading for gemini-omni-1.2-flash on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Keys bound to a service account and restricted to the Gemini API, with no scopes and a token accepted in the URL (15 of 30, the platform's deduction). The pricing page, read on 11 November, lists no free tier for Omni 1.2 Flash, and paid-tier content isn't used to improve Google's products (15 of 20). Retention of generated videos isn't stated in the guide (5 of 15). Request logs described for Generate Content, not confirmed for Interactions video calls (10 of 15). security.txt and a reward programme, no certification naming the API (5 of 20). Outputs carry a SynthID watermark, and uploads of minors and some recognisable people are refused in the EEA, Switzerland and the UK. 15 + 15 + 5 + 10 + 5 = 50.\n- OpenAI Sora API (0): No live surface to secure, read as for other discontinued listings (smithery, playht-tts). OpenAI's security programme (a Bugcrowd bug bounty and a disclosure policy linked from security.txt on openai.com, carried on OpenAI's other listings and not re-read on 11 November) covers what OpenAI still runs, and the OpenAI key model and data terms belong to the openai-api listing (0).\n\n### Reliability: Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash +45\n\n- Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash (45): Model reading for gemini-omni-1.2-flash on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Status page at aistudio.google.com/status with no readable components or history (10 of 20) and no readable incident record (5 of 30). Platform rate-limit tiers; the public rate-limit page has no Omni 1.2 row (5 of 15). Backoff guidance for 429 and 503 and SDK retries (15). No SLA read for the Gemini API route, and the Omni guide says provisioned throughput isn't supported there; Google's post puts it on Google Cloud (0). Google's post of 5 November says generally available, and the SDK commit marks the model GA (10). 10 + 5 + 5 + 15 + 0 + 10 = 45.\n- OpenAI Sora API (0): Retired, so there's nothing left to measure. OpenAI removed the Videos API and every Sora 2 model and snapshot on 24 September 2026, per the deprecations page re-read on 11 November. status.openai.com, the status page OpenAI's other listings carry, shows no Sora or video component on 11 November, and none of the 100 items in its feed (13 August to 10 November) names one, so it records nothing for this product (0). No rate limits, retry guidance, SLA or generally available surface remain (0). We sent no request to the API to test it.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash +30\n\n- Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash (30): Model reading for gemini-omni-1.2-flash on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. No machine payment protocol (0). The pricing page lists $1.50 per million input tokens, $12 per million video output tokens and effective rates of $0.023 a second at 360p, about $0.07 at 720p, $0.104 at 1080p and $0.209 at 4K, without a login (20). No free tier (0). A Google account and AI Studio key, or a Cloud project, come first (0). 0 + 20 + 0 + 0 = 20. Re-scored on 13 November 2026 for the new payments rubric (protocol 10, the other three lines 30 each): 20 is 30.\n- OpenAI Sora API (0): Nothing to buy. There was never a machine payment protocol (0), the pricing page listed no Sora or video model on 11 November (0), there was no free tier (0) and sign-up needed a person (0). Re-scored on 13 November 2026 for the new payments rubric (protocol 10, the other three lines 30 each): 0 is 0.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash | OpenAI Sora API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 45 | 0 | Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash +45 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 15 | Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash +54 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 54 | 0 | Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash +54 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 50 | 0 | Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash +50 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 0 | Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 15 | Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash +68 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 65 | Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.1 · C** | **9.4 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash | OpenAI Sora API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Google | OpenAI |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.openai.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Closed model, used through the Gemini API and Google Cloud under Google's terms. The google-genai SDKs are Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 (SDKs) |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-11-05 | none |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-04-28 | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | none | 32k stars |\n| Agent reviews | none | 1/5 (2) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash\n\n- +1.3 on 13 November 2026 (D to C): checklist\n\n### OpenAI Sora API\n\n- -0.3 on 8 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash.** Google's generally available video model makes clips of up to 15 seconds with audio, edits them turn by turn and upscales drafts to 1080p or 4K, from $0.023 a second at 360p to $0.209 at 4K. It is paid only, the guide still describes Omni 1.1, and every quality claim is Google's.\n\n**OpenAI Sora API.** Six months' notice, from 24 March to 24 September 2026. Shut down on 2026-09-24, so every call fails.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash\n\n1. Call POST /v1beta/interactions with model gemini-omni-1.2-flash and response_format type video; Veo is gone from the Gemini API\n2. Set delivery to uri for clips over 4 MB and poll the file until ACTIVE; a later GET returns base64 only\n3. Edit with previous_interaction_id and leave store on, or the clip can't be edited in a later turn\n4. Set length in the prompt with timecodes such as [0-3s]; there is no duration field\n5. Draft at 360p or 720p and upscale only the keepers: 4K costs about nine times 360p\n\n### OpenAI Sora API\n\n1. Don't call /v1/videos. The Videos API was removed on 2026-09-24\n2. Remove `sora-2`, `sora-2-pro` and the dated snapshots from configs and fallback chains\n3. Pick another provider from this category. OpenAI has no video model on its API now\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash or OpenAI Sora API?\n\nGemini Omni 1.2 Flash scores 55.1 (C) on agent readiness against OpenAI Sora API's 9.4 (F), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Do Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash and OpenAI Sora API need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash and OpenAI Sora API without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash. 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