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
StatusActive
CreatorGoogleGoogle
Providers
Context Window1.0M tokens
Max Output66K tokens
Input ModalitiesAudioImagePDFTextVideo
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 11 months ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 1 year ago
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
6.9
#352
Coding Index
7.4
#334
Math Index
35.3
#165
MMLU-Pro
0.7
#188
GPQA
0.5
#335
HLE
0.0
#424
LiveCodeBench
0.4
#170
AIME
0.5
#50
IFBench
0.3
#327
Time to First Token
0.33s
#223
SciCode
0.2
#362
MATH-500
0.9
#52
AIME 2025
0.4
#165
LCR
0.3
#208
TerminalBench Hard
0.0
#301
TAU2
0.2
#320
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

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandardBatchFlexPriority
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Cache Write
$ / 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
Audio In
$ / 1M
Image In
$ / 1M
Video In
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Write
$ / 1M
Audio In
$ / 1M
Image In
$ / 1M
Video In
$ / 1M
Google Gemini logo
Google Gemini
gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.1$0.4$0.01$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$0.05$0.2$0.15$0.05$0.05$0.18$0.72$0.018$0.54$0.18$0.18
Google Vertex AI logo
Google Vertex AI
gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.1$0.4$0.01$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$0.05$0.2$0.15$0.05$0.05$0.18$0.72$0.018$0.54$0.18$0.18
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.1$0.4$0.01N/A$0.0833$0.4$0.3$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/AN/A
Snowflake logo
Snowflake
gemini-2-5-flash-lite
$0.12$0.48N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A$0.06$0.24N/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/AN/A

Cost Calculator

US Dollar ($)
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 Tuned$0.412$2.25Available
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Tuned$0.412$2.25Available
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$0.300Deprecated
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview ReasoningAvailable
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite ReasoningAvailable

Other Models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Gemini 3.1 Flash ImageFlash131K$0.500$3.00
Gemini 3 Pro ImagePro66K$2.00$12.00
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 Flash ReasoningFlash
Gemini 3 ProPro$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
oci/google.gemini-2.5-flash-lite
publishers/google/models/gemini-2.5-flash-lite