Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Google · released Jul 22, 2025
- Type
- Proprietary
- Input
- $0.10
- Output
- $0.40
- Cached
- Not published
List price · per 1M tokens · Google AI at 1M context · source ↗
Our take
Written Aug 3, 2026Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite is a lightweight multimodal model from Google that can handle up to one million tokens in a single request and accepts text, images, files, audio and video. It is available only through hosted APIs with tiered speed options, and no benchmark scores are currently available.
Choose this for massive-document analysis where a one-million-token request limit matters more than measured quality scores, or for multimodal pipelines combining several input types. Pick the slower tier when cost matters most and 65 tokens per second is enough; pay twice as much for the faster tier only when throughput is the bottleneck. Skip it if you need self-hosting, fine-tuning, or any verified quality data to compare against peers.
The case for it
- One-million-token request limit stands alone as unusually large in this data.
- Entry tier is half the input and output cost of the standard tier on the same platform.
- Throughput flexibility from 16.5 to 99 tokens per second on Google AI Studio, with a mid-tier option at 99 tokens per second for twice the entry price.
The case against it
- No measured quality scores in our data — no Elo, MMLU, or other benchmarks held.
- Proprietary weights with no open licence; self-hosting and fine-tuning are not possible.
- Throughput varies sharply by tier and provider, with an 83 percent gap between the slowest and fastest tiers and uneven speed-to-price ratios across hosts.
How good is it?
We hold no score for this model.
We look for every model we track on every board we watch, and none of them has turned up Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite — so there is no intelligence, coding, agentic or writing score to show you, not a low one, none.
Or rent it from someone else
The lab is also the cheapest we hold. The strip above and this offer are the same one, so nothing on this page undercuts Google AI on 1M of context.
- per 1M tokens
- $0.10 in / $0.40 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 tier | $0.050 / $0.20 | 1M | 101 tok/s | No | Yes55 days | Unknown |
| Google AI | $0.10 / $0.40 | 1M66K out | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Google Vertex AIeu | $0.10 / $0.40 | 1M | 99 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| OpenRouter | $0.10 / $0.40 | 1M | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Google AI Studio | $0.10 / $0.40 | 1M | 188 tok/s | No | Yes55 days | Unknown |
| Google Vertex AI | $0.10 / $0.40 | 1M | 85 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| Google AI Studiopriority tier | $0.18 / $0.72 | 1M | 17 tok/s | No | Yes55 days | Unknown |
Google AI Studio
Google Vertex AI
OpenRouterAcross the 7 listings we hold: 5 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 2 do not say. 2 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us rather than confirmed either way.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
- ✓
- Supported
- ✗
- Not supported
- Not published
- host gave no parameter list
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google AI Studioflex | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google AI | |||
| Google Vertex AIeu | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google AI Studio | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Vertex AI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google AI Studiopriority | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Tool calling: 6 of 7 listings say yes, 1 publishes no parameter list. JSON output: 6 of 7 listings say yes, 1 publishes no parameter list. Strict schema: 6 of 7 listings say yes, 1 publishes no parameter list.
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When we formed this view
Dates behind this page
Prices last checked 9d ago
What we do not know about this model yet
- No board we watch has turned up a score, so we hold no quality figures at all.
- 1 of 7 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.
- 2 of 7 listings do not say whether they train on prompts.
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
Commercial API terms. We hold no licence record for this model, so there is nothing to summarise here.
Identifiers
- Modality record
- text+image+file+audio+video->text
- Catalogue slug
- google-gemini-2-5-flash-lite