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 $0.3 / 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
StatusDeprecating
CreatorGoogleGoogle
Providers
Context Window1.0M tokens
Max Output66K tokens
Input ModalitiesAudioImagePDFTextVideo
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 1 year ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 2 years ago
Deprecation Date
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
#323
Math Index
#161
MMLU-Pro
#180
GPQA
#308
HLE
#274
LiveCodeBench
#143
AIME
#45
IFBench
#184
Time to First Token
#322
SciCode
#403
MATH-500
#33
AIME 2025
#161
LCR
#188
TerminalBench Hard
#276
TAU2
#344
Output TPS
#3

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

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandardFlexFastBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Cache Write 5m
$ / 1M
Reasoning
$ / 1M
Audio In
$ / 1M
Image In
Web Search
$ / request
Video In
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Audio In
$ / 1M
Image In
$ / 1M
Video In
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Audio In
$ / 1M
Image In
$ / 1M
Video In
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Reasoning
$ / 1M
Audio In
$ / 1M
Image In
Web Search
$ / request
Video In
$ / 1M
Google Gemini logo
Google Gemini
gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.1$0.4$0.01N/A$0.4$0.3$0.1
/ 1M tokens
N/A$0.1$0.05$0.2$0.15$0.05$0.05$0.18$0.72N/A$0.54$0.18$0.18$0.05$0.2N/AN/A$0.25$0.05
/ 1M tokens
N/A$0.05
Google Vertex AI logo
Google Vertex AI
gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.1$0.4$0.01N/A$0.4$0.3$0.1
/ 1M tokens
N/A$0.1$0.18$0.72$0.018$0.54$0.18$0.18$0.05$0.2N/AN/A$0.15$0.05
/ 1M tokens
N/A$0.05
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.1$0.4$0.01$0.0833$0.4$0.3$0.000000
/ image
$0.014N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite:batch
$0.05$0.2$0.01$0.2$0.15$0.000000
/ image
$0.014N/A
Oracle Cloud (OCI) logo
Oracle Cloud (OCI)
oci/google.gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.075$0.3N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Snowflake logo
Snowflake
gemini-2-5-flash-lite
$0.12$0.48N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A$0.06$0.24N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.1$0.4$0.01N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A$0.05$0.2N/AN/AN/A$0.18$0.72$0.018N/AN/AN/A

Cost Calculator

US Dollar ($)
Preset:

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite1.0M$0.150$1.25Available
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image66K$0.250$1.50Available
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite1.0M$0.250$1.50Available
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview1.0M$0.250$1.50Deprecated
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Live$0.250$1.50Available
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Live Image$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

Other Models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Gemini 3.7 FlashFlash1.0M$0.375$1.88
Gemini 3.6 FlashFlash1.0M$0.750$3.75
Gemini 3.1 Flash ImageFlash131K$0.500$3.00
Gemini 3 Pro ImagePro131K$2.00$12.00
Gemini 3.5 FlashFlash1.0M$0.750$4.50
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 ProPro1.0M$2.00$12.00

Model IDs

gemini-2-5-flash-lite
gemini-2-5-flash-lite-reasoning
gemini-2.5-flash-lite
gemini/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
google-gemini-2-5-flash-lite
google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite:batch
oci/google.gemini-2.5-flash-lite
publishers/google/models/gemini-2.5-flash-lite