{"schema":"postcutoff/model@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/gemini-2-5-flash-lite/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/m/gemini-2-5-flash-lite/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"gemini-2-5-flash-lite","name":"Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite","org":"Google DeepMind","family":"Gemini 2.5","released":"2025-07-22","status":"legacy","type":"llm","modality_in":["text","image","audio","video","pdf"],"modality_out":["text"],"open_weights":false,"model_license":"proprietary","context_window":1048576,"max_output":null,"knowledge_cutoff":null,"pricing":{"input":0.1,"output":0.4,"unit":"per 1M tokens (Standard; text/image/video input; audio input $0.30)","source":"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing"},"price_line":"$0.10 in, $0.40 out per 1M tokens","access":[{"provider":"Gemini API","model_id":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","endpoint":"https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/gemini-2.5-flash-lite:generateContent","docs":"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models"},{"provider":"OpenRouter","model_id":"google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite"}],"capabilities":[{"name":"Cheapest Gemini text tier","detail":"Still the lowest per-token Gemini text price ($0.10 / $0.40) with 1M context.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing"},{"name":"Thinking off by default","detail":"Lowest latency/cost in the 2.5 family, thinking disabled by default, yet supports grounding, code execution, URL context and function calling.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2-5-thinking-model-updates/"}],"entry":null,"notes":"GA 2025-07-22; no shutdown date, access limited to historical users; replacement 3.5 Flash-Lite. Max output not re-verified.","verified":"2026-09-29","body_md":"Budget 2025 model; legacy.\n\n```bash\ncurl \"https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/gemini-2.5-flash-lite:generateContent\" \\\n  -H \"x-goog-api-key: $GEMINI_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"contents\":[{\"parts\":[{\"text\":\"Hello\"}]}]}'\n```\n\nSources: [models](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models), [pricing](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing), [deprecations](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations).","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/gemini-2-5-flash-lite/","events_after":null,"major_after":null,"historic_after":null,"missing_at_launch":null,"events_since_release":2013,"you_url":null,"briefings":null}