Gemini 2.5 Flash

Google's first generally available Flash-tier thinking model, pairing chain-of-thought reasoning with Flash-level speed.

Context: 1M tokens
Max output: 66K
Cutoff: Jan 2025
Released: Jun 2025

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Hosted API price

List price via Google Cloud · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $0.30 /1M
Output: $2.50 /1M
Hosted by: 2 providers

Hosted API pricing

How we price

Order

Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.

Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

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Every provider serving Gemini 2.5 Flash, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving Gemini 2.5 Flash, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider	Input /1M	Output /1M	Cached input /1M	Cost at 10M in + 2M out	Link
Google Cloud Creator	$0.30	$2.50	$0.03	$8.00	Visit website
Replicate	$0.30	$2.50		$8.00	Visit website

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest Gemini 2.5 Flash by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest Gemini 2.5 Flash per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs Gemini 2.5 Flash
DeepSeek V3 Turbo DeepSeek	$0.55	$0.40	$1.30	64K		−18%
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B Thinking Alibaba Cloud	$0.5667	$0.20	$2.40	262K		−15%
Qwen3-235B-A22B Thinking (2507) Alibaba Cloud	$0.575	$0.23	$2.30	262K		−14%
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B Alibaba Cloud	$0.575	$0.38	$1.55	262K		−14%
GPT-4.1 Mini OpenAI	$0.60	$0.40	$1.60	1M	Jun 2024	−10%
Gemini 2.5 Flash This model Google Cloud	$0.6667	$0.30	$2.50	1M	Jan 2025
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Google Cloud	$0.6667	$0.30	$2.50	1M	Mar 2026	0%
Mistral Large 3 Mistral	$0.6667	$0.50	$1.50	256K		0%
Qwen3.5-Plus Alibaba Cloud	$0.7333	$0.40	$2.40	1M		+10%
GLM-5 Z.AI	$0.7667	$0.60	$1.60	200K		+15%
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B DeepSeek	$0.80	$0.80	$0.80	131K		+20%

USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

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Capabilities

What Gemini 2.5 Flash accepts and can do, as published by Google Cloud.

Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
Image Accepts images as input alongside text.
Video Accepts video as input.
Audio Accepts audio as input.
Reasoning Thinks before it answers, always on or as a switchable mode.
Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems.
Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.
Web search Search the web for up-to-date information.
Code execution Write and execute code in a sandboxed environment.
File upload Process uploaded documents, spreadsheets, and other files.

Common questions

What is Gemini 2.5 Flash good for?

High-volume multimodal work, long documents and agents, with thinking. It sits in the middle of Google's price range.

When is Gemini 2.5 Flash not a good fit?

New projects: Google closed the model to new users in July 2026 and a shutdown is expected. Closed weights, so no self-hosting.

What is the cheapest way to run Gemini 2.5 Flash?

The cheapest hosted rate is $0.30 / $2.50 per 1M tokens via Google Cloud.

How does Gemini 2.5 Flash compare with Gemini 2.0 Flash?

Google says Gemini 2.5 Flash builds on Gemini 2.0 Flash and adds thinking that developers can switch on, off or budget. Google calls it a major step up in reasoning that keeps the speed of Gemini 2.0 Flash when thinking is off. Same 1M-token context and text, image, audio and video input. Gemini 2.5 Flash came out 4 months later and has a newer knowledge cutoff (January 2025 against August 2024) and a larger max output (66K against 8K tokens).

Can I self-host Gemini 2.5 Flash?

No. Google Cloud does not publish the weights; Gemini 2.5 Flash is available only through hosted APIs.