Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
GA 2025-07-22; no shutdown date, access limited to historical users; replacement 3.5 Flash-Lite. Max output not re-verified.
- Context window
- 1,048,576 tokens
- Input
- text, image, audio, video, pdf
- Output
- text
- License
- proprietary
- Pricing
- input: $0.1 · output: $0.4 (per 1M tokens (Standard; text/image/video input; audio input $0.30)) source
- Verified
- 2026-09-29
How to call it
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint / URL | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini API | gemini-2.5-flash-lite | https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/gemini-2.5-flash-lite:generateContent | docs |
| OpenRouter | google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite | — | — |
Notable capabilities (2)
- Cheapest Gemini text tier: Still the lowest per-token Gemini text price ($0.10 / $0.40) with 1M context. source
- Thinking off by default: Lowest latency/cost in the 2.5 family, thinking disabled by default, yet supports grounding, code execution, URL context and function calling. source
Budget 2025 model; legacy.
curl "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/gemini-2.5-flash-lite:generateContent" \
-H "x-goog-api-key: $GEMINI_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"contents":[{"parts":[{"text":"Hello"}]}]}'
Sources: models, pricing, deprecations.
Other Google DeepMind models
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