Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google · released Jun 17, 2025
- Type
- Closed
- Input
- $0.30
- Output
- $2.50
- Cached
- None held
List price · per 1M tokens · Google AI at 1M context · machine-readable source ↗
Our take
Written Sep 30, 2026Gemini 2.5 Flash is a hosted-only model: we list no download for it, so using it means choosing a host. It handles text, images, files, audio and video in one request, and its measured results are strongest on set-piece programming problems rather than on real-world coding work.
Reach for it on competitive-style programming exercises, where it passes 76.2% of LiveCodeBench problems, or when a single request has to carry text, images, files, audio and video together. Long documents go in whole, though reliable recall across all of it is unverified in our data. Skip it if you need fixes landed in an existing codebase without review, or if you need top-tier human-rated chat quality.
The case for it
- 76.2% pass on LiveCodeBench, 8th of 16 on that board as of 28 Sep 2026 — set-piece programming exercises rather than fixes to an existing project.
- Text, images, files, audio and video all go into one request, so a screenshot, a recording or a document does not have to be converted first.
- The request capacity takes long documents whole, though reliable recall across all of it is unverified in our data.
The case against it
- 28.7% of real GitHub issues resolved end-to-end on SWE-bench Verified via mini-SWE-agent, 35th of 42 as of 19 Feb 2026 — a result for the model inside that harness, not a standalone measure.
- Mid-field on human preference: 90th of 168 on Arena Text (overall) as of 25 Sep 2026, and 112th of 168 on Arena Coding; those boards record which answer people preferred, not whether it was correct.
- We list no download for it, so using it means choosing a host.
How good is it?
EverydayGeneral questions and everyday reasoning
Arena Text (overall)90th of 168 · 1409
CodingWriting and fixing code on its own
Arena Coding112th of 168 · 1424
AgenticPlanning, calling tools, staying on task
Not yet scored on Arena Agent. It is on SWE-bench Verified, in 35th of 42 with 28.7.
WritingDrafting and rewriting prose
Arena Creative Writing73rd of 168 · 1394
Arena Creative Writing is the only board that has scored it for this.
These tests check whether a model follows instructions — a precondition for all the work above, but not a measure of how well that work is done.
Every published score for this model8 scoresEvery figure we hold, from 8 boards, with who ran it and a link to the source — including the boards no rating above is built on.
Where to rent it
Prices checked between 59 min and 13 hours ago — each listing carries its own date.
Google AI, direct
The lab is the cheapest at this context. The strip above and this offer are the same one, compared at 1M of context. One cheaper row below is outside that comparison: a non-standard pricing tier.
- per 1M tokens
- $0.30 in / $2.50 out
- Context served
- 1M
- Throughput
- Not measured
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google AI Studioflex tierThrough OpenRouter | $0.15 / $1.25checked 1 hour ago | 1M66K max reply | 194 tok/s | No | Yes55 days | Unknown |
| DeepInfraDirect | $0.30 / $2.50checked 1 hour ago | 1M | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Google AIDirect | $0.30 / $2.50checked 59 min ago | 1M66K max reply | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Google Vertex AIeuThrough OpenRouter | $0.30 / $2.50checked 1 hour ago | 1M66K max reply | 97 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| Google Vertex AIThrough OpenRouter | $0.30 / $2.50checked 13 hours ago | 1M66K max reply | 56 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| Google Vertex AIglobalThrough OpenRouter | $0.30 / $2.50checked 1 hour ago | 1M66K max reply | 73 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | $0.30 / $2.50checked 1 hour ago | 1M | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Google AI StudioThrough OpenRouter | $0.30 / $2.50checked 1 hour ago | 1M66K max reply | 49 tok/s | No | Yes55 days | Unknown |
| Google AI Studiopriority tierThrough OpenRouter | $0.54 / $4.50checked 1 hour ago | 1M66K max reply | 110 tok/s | No | Yes55 days | Unknown |
| Google Vertex AIpriority tierglobalThrough OpenRouter | $0.54 / $4.50checked 1 hour ago | 1M66K max reply | 38 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
Google AI Studio
DeepInfra
Google Vertex AI
OpenRouterAcross the 10 listings we hold: 7 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 3 do not say. 4 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google AI StudioflexThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DeepInfraDirect | |||
| Google AIDirect | |||
| Google Vertex AIeuThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Vertex AIThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Vertex AIglobalThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google AI StudioThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google AI StudiopriorityThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Vertex AIpriority · globalThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Tool calling: 8 of 10 listings say yes, 2 publish no parameter list. JSON output: 8 of 10 listings say yes, 2 publish no parameter list. Strict schema: 8 of 10 listings say yes, 2 publish no parameter list.
Models people weigh against Gemini 2.5 Flash
When we formed this view
Recent changes
What moved
first indexed by our pipelineEach date is the day we first saw the change, or the day the maker announced it.
What we do not know about this model yet
- 2 of 10 listings publish no parameter list, so what their API accepts is unknown to us.
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 3 of 10 listings do not say whether they train on prompts.
- We hold no batch or off-peak rate for any of its listings.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
We hold no licence record for this model, and no record of published weights either — so we can neither summarise its terms nor point you at the weights.
Identifiers
- Takes in, gives back
- Text, images, audio, video and documents in, text out
- Catalogue slug
- google-gemini-2-5-flash