Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
The lighter variant of Gemini 2.5 Flash, built for high-volume workloads with optional thinking.
Key Specifications
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Max output
- 66K tokens
- Knowledge cutoff
- web search available
- Released
- Inputs
- Text, image, video, audio
- Capabilities Show details
- 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.
Hosted API pricing
| Provider | Input /1M tokens | Output /1M tokens | Cached input /1M | Cost at 10M in + 2M out | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Google Cloud
Creator
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$0.10 | $0.40 | $0.01 | $1.80 | View |
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-Lite by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.
| Model | Blended /1M | Input /1M | Output /1M | Context | Cutoff | vs Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Alibaba Cloud
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$0.1267 | $0.06 | $0.46 | 262K | −16% | |
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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Alibaba Cloud
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$0.1283 | $0.07 | $0.42 | 262K | −14% | |
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Gemma 3 27B Instruct
Google Cloud
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$0.1333 | $0.10 | $0.30 | 128K | Aug 2024 | −11% |
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Gemma 4 26B A4B
Google Cloud
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$0.1333 | $0.10 | $0.30 | 256K | Jan 2025 | −11% |
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Qwen3-32B FP8
Alibaba Cloud
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$0.1333 | $0.10 | $0.30 | 33K | −11% | |
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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
This model
Google Cloud
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$0.15 | $0.10 | $0.40 | 1M | Jan 2025 | |
GPT-4.1 Nano
OpenAI
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$0.15 | $0.10 | $0.40 | 1M | Jun 2024 | 0% |
Ministral 3 8B
Mistral
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$0.15 | $0.15 | $0.15 | 256K | 0% | |
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Qwen3.5-Flash
Alibaba Cloud
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$0.15 | $0.10 | $0.40 | 1M | 0% | |
Llama 3.2 11B Vision
Meta
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$0.155 | $0.05 | $0.68 | 128K | Dec 2023 | +3% |
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
Nvidia
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$0.1583 | $0.09 | $0.50 | 1M | Jun 2025 | +6% |
Prices are 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite good for?
High-volume classification, simple data extraction and other light multimodal tasks, at the lower-cost end of Google's lineup.
When is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite 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-Lite?
The cheapest hosted rate is $0.10 / $0.40 per 1M tokens via Google Cloud.
How does Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite compare with Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite?
Google says Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has higher quality than Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite across coding, math, science, reasoning and multimodal tasks, with lower latency, and adds optional thinking plus web search and code execution. Same 1M-token context and text, image, audio and video input. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite came out 5 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-Lite?
No. Google Cloud does not publish the weights; Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is available only through hosted APIs.
More from Google Cloud
| Model | Context | Input /1M | Output /1M |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Gemma 4 26B A4B
Open weights
|
256K | $0.10 | $0.30 |
|
Gemma 3 27B Instruct
Open weights
|
128K | $0.10 | $0.30 |
|
Gemma 4 31B
Open weights
|
256K | $0.13 | $0.37 |
|
Gemma 3 12B Instruct
Open weights
|
128K | $0.05 | $0.10 |
|
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
|
1M | $0.25 | $1.50 |
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Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
|
1M | $0.30 | $2.50 |
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Gemini 2.5 Flash
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1M | $0.30 | $2.50 |
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Gemini 3 Flash Preview
|
1M | $0.50 | $3.00 |