Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
No published training cutoff
gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.10 in, $0.40 out per 1M tokens
Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio (Live, preview)
Model idgemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025
Price$0.50 in, $2 out per 1M tokens
Checked29 September 2026
Where it stands
85newer speech and audio models since its release
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B)28 Oct 2026
- Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B22 Oct 2026
- Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini20 Oct 2026
- Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3)20 Oct 2026
- Voxtral Small Transcribe 320 Oct 2026
The 5 newest are listed. All speech and audio models
- Before it from Google
- Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS / Pro TTS20 May 2025
- After it from Google
- Chirp 3 Transcription (Google Cloud Speech-to-Text)13 Oct 2025
- Weights
- Closed weights; access is hosted only.
How to call it
2 ways to use Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio (Live, preview), with the model id each provider expects.
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini Live API (WebSocket) | gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025 |
ai.google.dev | |
| Gemini Live API (WebSocket) | gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-09-2025 |
ai.google.dev |
Pricing
| Input | $0.50 per 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Output | $2 per 1M tokens |
| Audio input | $3 per 1M tokens |
| Audio output | $12 per 1M tokens |
As published: “per 1M tokens (USD); audio/video in $3.00”.
Source: ai.google.dev, checked 29 September 2026.
Specs
- Input
- Text, audio, images and video
- Output
- Text and audio
- Context window
- Not published
- Max output
- Not published
- Open weights
- No
- Licence
- Proprietary
- Released
- 23 September 2025
- Status
- Legacy
- Type
- Speech and audio
What stands out
What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.
Native-audio reasoning in the Live API
Low-latency voice and video agents with native audio reasoning; 09-2025 snapshot improved function calling and speech cut-off handling, 12-2025 snapshot improved complex workflows.
Notes
Preview snapshots 2025-09-23 and 2025-12-12. No shutdown date announced; migrate to gemini-3.8-live. Older gemini-2.0-flash-live-001 and gemini-live-2.5-flash-preview were shut down 2025-12-09.
Sources: models, changelog, deprecations, pricing.