Scheduled for retirement on Oct 20, 2026. Still available at the prices below until then.
Context
1M
Max output
66K
Serving providers
5
Cheapest input
$0.075 /1M
On-demand listed rates, OpenRouter routed quotes and Vercel reseller quotes. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower.
Benchmarks
independent evaluations · source: Artificial AnalysisSpeed & latency
Output speed
287 t/s
tokens / second
Time to first token
0.31s
latency
Headline indices
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
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| CritPt | 0% | default | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| GPQA Diamond | 63% | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Humanity's Last Exam | 7% | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| IFBench | 50% | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| LiveCodeBench | 59% | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Long-Context Reasoning | 56% | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Mlcr OverallFrozen Sep 9, 2026 | 0.0 | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
| MMLU-ProFrozen Aug 18, 2026 | 76% | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| MMMU-Pro | 58% | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Omniscience | -45.6 | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Omniscience Accuracy | 0.2 | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Omniscience Non Hallucination | 0.2 | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| SciCodeArtificial Analysis did not report this score in its latest run on Oct 14, 2026 | 19% | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| TerminalBench Hard | 5% | reasoning: true | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| τ²-bench | 19% | default | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Artificial Analysis last published scores for this benchmark on Sep 9, 2026. Scores here are frozen at that date, and models released since are not on it.
Artificial Analysis last published scores for this benchmark on Aug 18, 2026. Scores here are frozen at that date, and models released since are not on it.
Pricing by serving provider
standard tier · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expandInput pricing runs from $0.075 to $0.10 per 1M tokens across 5 providers, so the dearest route costs 33% more than the cheapest for the same model.
| Serving provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Endpoints | |||||||||||||||||
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| OCICheapest | $0.075 | $0.30 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Standardoci/google.gemini-2.5-flash-lite
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| $0.10 | $0.40 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
Standardgemini/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
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| OpenRouter | $0.10 | $0.40 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Standardgoogle/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
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| VercelVercel reseller quote | $0.10 | $0.40 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Standardgoogle/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
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| Vertex AI Language Models | $0.10 | $0.40 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Standardgemini-2.5-flash-lite
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| OpenRouter (batch) | $0.05 | $0.20 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Batchgoogle/gemini-2.5-flash-lite:batch
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| Vercel (flex)Vercel reseller quote | $0.05 | $0.20 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Flexgoogle/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
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| Vercel (priority)Vercel reseller quote | $0.18 | $0.72 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Prioritygoogle/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
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Price history
listed seller prices, input and output per 1M tokens Input Output
Input down 25% since first tracked
Cost calculator
estimate your monthly spend on this model$39
estimated / month
Model IDs
copy the exact identifier for your platformgoogle/gemini-2.5-flash-lite:batchgoogle/gemini-2.5-flash-liteoci/google.gemini-2.5-flash-litegoogle/gemini-2.5-flash-litegemini-2.5-flash-litegemini/gemini-2.5-flash-litegoogle/gemini-2.5-flash-litegoogle/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
Frequently asked questions
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite pricing, context and availabilityIs Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite still available?
Yes. Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite is scheduled for retirement on 2026-10-20.
How much does Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite cost?
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite costs $0.075 per 1M input tokens from OCI, and $0.30 per 1M output tokens from OCI. Across 5 serving providers, input prices range from $0.075 to $0.10 per 1M tokens.
What is the context window of Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite?
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite accepts up to 1M tokens of context and can return up to 66K output tokens.
Which providers serve Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite?
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite is available from 5 serving providers, each with its own pricing and model ID. OCI is currently the cheapest.
What can Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite do?
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite supports image input (vision), tool use, reasoning, audio input, prompt caching, structured output and web search.
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