Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite is Google's language model with a 1.0M context window and up to 66K output tokens, available from 6 providers, starting at $0.075 / 1M input and $0.300 / 1M output. A lightweight Gemini 2.5 Flash variant optimized for ultra-low latency and cost efficiency while retaining reasoning capabilities.
Specifications
Canonical IDgoogle-gemini-2-5-flash-lite
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorGoogleGoogle
Providers
Context Window1.0M tokens
Max Output66K tokens
Input ModalitiesAudioImagePdfTextVideo
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 10 months ago
Knowledge Cutoff
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
12.7
#340
Coding Index
7.4
#325
Math Index
35.3
#165
MMLU-Pro
0.7
#188
GPQA
0.5
#325
HLE
0.0
#413
LiveCodeBench
0.4
#170
AIME
0.5
#50
IFBench
0.3
#316
Time to First Token
0.54s
#259
SciCode
0.2
#353
MATH-500
0.9
#52
AIME 2025
0.4
#165
LCR
0.3
#199
TerminalBench Hard
0.0
#291
TAU2
0.2
#310
Output TPS

Capabilities

Input5/5
Text
Image
Audio
Video
PDF
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities10/13
Reasoning
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling
Parallel Function Calling
Structured Outputs
Native JSON Schema
Web Search
URL Context
Computer Use·
Code Execution
File Search
Prompt Caching
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

ProviderStandardBatchFlexPriority
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Cache Write
$ / 1M
Reasoning
$ / 1M
Audio In
$ / 1M
Web Search
$ / query
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Audio In
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Audio In
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Write
$ / 1M
Audio In
$ / 1M
Oracle Cloud (OCI) logo
Oracle Cloud (OCI)
oci/google.gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.075$0.300N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Google Gemini logo
Google Gemini
gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.100$0.400$0.010$0.010$0.400$0.300N/A$0.050$0.200$0.150$0.050$0.200$0.150$0.180$0.720$0.018$0.540
Google Vertex AI logo
Google Vertex AI
gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.100$0.400$0.010$0.010$0.400$0.300N/A$0.050$0.200$0.150$0.050$0.200$0.150$0.180$0.720$0.018$0.540
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.100$0.400$0.010N/A$0.400$0.300$0.014
Snowflake logo
Snowflake
gemini-2-5-flash-lite
$0.100$0.400N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A$0.050$0.200N/A
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.100$0.400$0.010N/AN/AN/AN/A

Cost Calculator

Preset:

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite1.0M$0.250$1.50Available
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview1.0M$0.250$1.50Available
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Live$0.250$1.50Available
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Live Preview$0.250$1.50Available
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Live TunedAvailable
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite TunedAvailable
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview1.0M$0.100$0.400Deprecated
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite1.0M$0.075$0.300Current
Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite1.0M$0.075$0.300Deprecating
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview ReasoningAvailable
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite ReasoningAvailable

Other models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Gemini 3.5 FlashFlash1.0M$1.50$9.00
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom ToolsPro1.0M$2.00$12.00
Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewPro1.0M$2.00$12.00
Gemini 3 FlashFlash1.0M$0.500$3.00
Gemini 3 Flash PreviewFlash1.0M$0.500$3.00
Gemini 3 Pro PreviewPro1.0M$2.00$12.00
Gemini 3 Pro ImagePro66K$2.00$12.00
Gemini 3 Flash ReasoningFlash
Gemini 3 ProPro$2.00$12.00
Gemini 3 Pro Preview LowPro

Model IDs