Google · Released Jun 17, 2025Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Lean Gemini 2.5 lane for cheap multimodal traffic and quick agents.
- Capability
- 133.9ECI · #118 of 148
- Input
- $0.10per 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.40per 1M tokens
- Context
- 1.05M66K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.10per million tokens
- Output
- $0.40per million tokens
- Cached input
- $0.01per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.175cheaper than 79% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $0.40 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $4.50 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $45.00 |
Official Google API price, as listed on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
#118 of 148 scored models
The shaded band is Epoch AI’s confidence range (129.8–136.3); the tick marks the median scored model.
Scores from Epoch AI, run independently of Google.
The details
- Lab
- Released
- Jun 17, 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
- Thinking budget
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- Yes
- Weights
- Proprietary
- API model ID
gemini-2.5-flash-liteon Google- Availability
- 20 API providerslisted on models.dev
What Google claims
Published by the lab at launch. Settings vary, so compare these only with care.
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About Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
How much does Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite cost?
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite costs $0.10 input / $0.40 output per million tokens (official Google API price). Cached input is $0.01 per million tokens. At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.175 per million tokens, cheaper than 79% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite 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?
Epoch AI gives Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite a Capabilities Index score of 133.9 (likely range 129.8–136.3), ranking it #118 of 148 models Epoch has scored.
Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite open source?
No. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is proprietary; you use it through Google’s API or partner platforms.
What inputs does Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite support?
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts text, images, PDFs, audio and video and replies in text. It is a reasoning model, supports tool calling and can return structured JSON output.
When was Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite released?
Google released Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite on Jun 17, 2025. Its training data runs to Jan 2025.
What are the best alternatives to Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Mistral Small 3.2 (Mistral AI, ECI 131.7, $0.10 / $0.30), Qwen3 30B A3B (Alibaba (Qwen), ECI 136.2, $0.114 / $0.50), GPT OSS 20B (OpenAI, ECI 137.8, $0.07 / $0.295) and DeepSeek V3 0324 (DeepSeek, ECI 135.9, $0.24 / $0.90).