Google (Gemini) · Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
gemini-2.5-flash-liteAvailable from the provider.
- Released
- Deprecatednot announced
- Retirednot announced
Summary
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the cheapest active model of the three core providers in this dataset, at $0.1 per million input tokens and $0.4 per million output tokens. It still offers a 1,048,576-token context window and text, image, video, audio and PDF input, with a January 2025 knowledge cutoff.
Google aims Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite at bulk classification, straightforward extraction and latency-critical work, the cases where budget and speed decide the design. It is listed with a July 2025 update.
It returns text, with caching, code execution, file search, function calling, Maps and search grounding, structured outputs, thinking, URL context, the Batch API and flex and priority inference. The Live API is not supported, and it does not generate images or audio. The output limit is 65,536 tokens.
No deprecation has been announced for the stable model ID; the September 2025 preview snapshot has already been shut down.
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Specifications
- Input price
- $0.10 / M tok
- Output price
- $0.40 / M tok
- Price class
- Budget
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Max output
- 65,536 tokens
- Released
- 22 July 2025
- Input modalities
- text, image
- Output modalities
- text
- Knowledge cutoff
- January 2025
- Tool use
- Yes
- Structured output
- Yes
- License
- unknown
- Maker
- Google (Gemini)
Use it for
- Classify or extract at very high volume where the per-token price decides whether the feature ships.
- Parse long documents cheaply, using the full context window instead of a chunking pipeline.
- Run the simple half of your traffic alongside a stronger model on the rest.
Avoid it when
- Your prompts depend on facts after January 2025, this model's knowledge cutoff.
- The task needs multi-step reasoning; Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite at $0.3 / $2.5 and the Flash tier above it are the steps up.
- You need more than 65,536 output tokens in a single response.
Alternatives
What to use instead. Curated suggestions are written by our editors for this model; derived ones are ranked automatically from tags, tier and price class.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Litecurated
Google (Gemini)
gemini-3.5-flash-liteThree times the input price at $0.3 / $2.5, with a July 2026 update instead of July 2025 and the same modalities.
In $0.30 / M tokOut $2.50 / M tok
ActiveTextVisionChat+6 - Gemini 2.5 Flashcurated
Google (Gemini)
gemini-2.5-flashThree times the input price at $0.3 / $2.5 within the same generation, when Flash-Lite is not accurate enough.
In $0.30 / M tokOut $2.50 / M tok
ActiveTextVisionChat
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Facts
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Last verified: (2026-09-10 12:00) · ✓ verified
Editorial profile
The summary, the advice and the curated alternatives are our assessment, not a provider claim.
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