Google · Released Sep 25, 2025Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview 09-2025
September 2025 preview of Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite with better instruction following and multimodal quality.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.095per 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.38per 1M tokens
- Context
- 1.05M66K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.095per million tokens
- Output
- $0.38per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.166cheaper than 81% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $0.38 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $4.28 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $42.75 |
Median of 2 paid API providers on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview 09-2025 yet.
The details
- Lab
- Released
- Sep 25, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Jan 2025
- Context window
- 1,048,576 tokens
- Max output
- 65,536 tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Images, PDFs, Audio, Video
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- Always on
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Proprietary
- Availability
- 2 API providerslisted on models.dev
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About Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview 09-2025
How much does Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview 09-2025 cost?
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview 09-2025 costs $0.095 input / $0.38 output per million tokens (median across 2 API providers). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.166 per million tokens, cheaper than 81% of the 445 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview 09-2025?
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview 09-2025 accepts up to 1,048,576 tokens per request and can write up to 65,536 tokens in one response.
How good is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview 09-2025?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview 09-2025 yet.
Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview 09-2025 open source?
No. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview 09-2025 is proprietary; you use it through an API or partner platforms.
What inputs does Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview 09-2025 support?
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview 09-2025 accepts text, images, PDFs, audio and video and replies in text. It is a reasoning model, supports tool calling.
When was Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview 09-2025 released?
Google released Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview 09-2025 on Sep 25, 2025. Its training data runs to Jan 2025.
What are the best alternatives to Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview 09-2025?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Ministral 14B (Mistral AI, $0.175 / $0.175), Rnj-1 Instruct (Essential AI, $0.15 / $0.15), Apertus 8B (Swiss AI, $0.10 / $0.20) and MiMo-V2-Flash (Xiaomi, $0.10 / $0.30).