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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

CTX1.05M

46Quality

Reasoning · Vision · Tools

Input$0.10/M

Output$0.40/M

Lean Gemini 2.5 lane for cheap multimodal traffic and quick agents

PaidProprietary591/1044

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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Lean Gemini 2.5 lane for cheap multimodal traffic and quick agents

gemini-2.5-flash-lite

Type: Text
Quality: 46 · Top 54% on the Epoch Capabilities Index
Context window: 1,048,576 tokens
Max output: 65,536 tokens
Input price: $0.10 / 1M tokens
Output price: $0.40 / 1M tokens
Cache read: $0.01 / 1M tokens
Cache write: —
Released: Jun 17, 2025
Knowledge cutoff: Jan 2025
Takes in: Text, Image, Audio, Video, PDF
Puts out: Text
Reasoning: Yes
Tool calling: Yes
Structured output: Yes
File attachments: Yes
Access: Paid
License: Proprietary
Rarity: Common
Set number: 591/1044

Open Google docs Quality 46 Where to run it 23 Evolution 1/3 Meet its creature Battle Solar Mini 4

Weights aren’t public. Use is governed by Google’s terms. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 19, 2026. Official source: ai.google.dev.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 54% of the 277 models on the Epoch Capabilities Index: #150.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

Epoch Capabilities Index#150 of 277
One number fitted from dozens of hard benchmarks, from science questions to agentic coding.134.0 index
Listed as Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Jun 2025)
LMArena Text#186 of 416
People compare two anonymous answers and vote for the better one.1,369 rating
Listed as gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17-thinking
LMArena Text · Coding#201 of 411
The text arena’s coding prompts only.1,373 rating
Listed as gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17-thinking
LMArena Text · Math#200 of 400
The text arena’s math prompts only.1,363 rating
Listed as gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17-thinking
LMArena Text · Creative writing#146 of 414
The text arena’s creative writing prompts only.1,367 rating
Listed as gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17-thinking
LMArena Vision#99 of 165
Questions about images, voted by people.1,187 rating
Listed as gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17-thinking

Scores from Epoch AI and LMArena, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

23 providers sell Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

CheapestLLMTR$0.10 in · $0.10 out
Free to try1 providerKenari
From the labGoogle$0.10 in · $0.40 out

API providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
KenariFree`gemini-2-5-flash-lite`	Free	Free	1.05M
LLMTRCheapest paid`google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite`	$0.10	$0.10	1.05M
Poe`google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite`	$0.07	$0.28	1.02M
Jiekou.AI`gemini-2.5-flash-lite`	$0.09	$0.36	1.05M
AIHubMix`gemini-2.5-flash-lite`	$0.10	$0.40	1.05M
CrossModel`gemini/gemini-2.5-flash-lite`	$0.10	$0.40	1.05M
GoogleOfficial`gemini-2.5-flash-lite`	$0.10	$0.40	1.05M
Helicone`gemini-2.5-flash-lite`	$0.10	$0.40	1.05M
Impossibl`google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite`	$0.10	$0.40	1.05M
Kilo Gateway`google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite`	$0.10	$0.40	1.05M

Show 13 more providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
Merge Gateway`google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite`	$0.10	$0.40	1M
NanoGPT`gemini-2.5-flash-lite`	$0.10	$0.40	1.05M
NEAR AI Cloud`google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite`	$0.10	$0.40	1.05M
Ofox`google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite`	$0.10	$0.40	1.05M
OpenRouter`google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite`	$0.10	$0.40	1.05M
OrcaRouter`google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite`	$0.10	$0.40	1.05M
Requesty`gemini-2.5-flash-lite@eu`	$0.10	$0.40	1.05M
SAP AI Core`gemini-2.5-flash-lite`	$0.10	$0.40	1.05M
Vercel AI Gateway`google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite`	$0.10	$0.40	1.05M
Vertex`gemini-2.5-flash-lite`	$0.10	$0.40	1.05M
ZenMux`google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite`	$0.10	$0.40	1.05M
AnyAPI`google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite`	—	—	1.05M
Qiniu`gemini-2.5-flash-lite`	—	—	1.05M

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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