Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

The lighter variant of Gemini 2.5 Flash, built for high-volume workloads with optional thinking.

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

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Hosted API price

List price via Google Cloud · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $0.10 /1M
Output: $0.40 /1M
Hosted by: 1 provider

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-Lite, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, 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	$0.10	$0.40	$0.01	$1.80	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-Lite by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Alibaba Cloud	$0.124	$0.057	$0.459	262K		−17%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Alibaba Cloud	$0.1283	$0.07	$0.42	262K		−14%
Gemma 3 27B Instruct Google Cloud	$0.1333	$0.10	$0.30	128K	Aug 2024	−11%
Gemma 4 26B A4B Google Cloud	$0.1333	$0.10	$0.30	256K	Jan 2025	−11%
Qwen3-32B FP8 Alibaba Cloud	$0.1333	$0.10	$0.30	33K		−11%
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite This model Google Cloud	$0.15	$0.10	$0.40	1M	Jan 2025
GPT-4.1 Nano OpenAI	$0.15	$0.10	$0.40	1M	Jun 2024	0%
Ministral 3 8B Mistral	$0.15	$0.15	$0.15	256K		0%
Qwen3.5-Flash Alibaba Cloud	$0.15	$0.10	$0.40	1M		0%
Llama 3.2 11B Vision Meta	$0.1535	$0.049	$0.676	128K	Dec 2023	+2%
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B Nvidia	$0.1583	$0.09	$0.50	1M	Jun 2025	+6%

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-Lite 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-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.