Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Google · Multimodal · Released Jul 2025
Google's lightweight multimodal model from the Gemini 2.5 family with native thinking capabilities, designed for fast inference and cost efficiency.
- Strengths
- Handles images and text with thinking, offering a smaller footprint and faster response times than the full Gemini 2.5 Flash.
- Best for
- Applications requiring multimodal reasoning at lower latency and reduced cost, including batch processing workflows.
- Limitations
- Smaller scale means it trades raw capability for speed and efficiency; reasoning depth is more constrained than Gemini 2.5 Pro.
Input / 1M
$0.1
Output / 1M
$0.4
Cached input / 1M
$0.01
Context window
1.05M
Also billed
- Cache write
- $0.0833 / 1M
- Audio input
- $0.3 / 1M
Price history
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Snapshots
| Effective | Input | Output | Cached in | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Jun 2026 | $0.1 | $0.4 | $0.01 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 11 Jun 2026 | $0.1 | $0.4 | $0.01 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |