Google DeepMind

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

Tool callingStructured outputReasoningImage inputAudio inputVideo inputFile input
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite launch post cover

Lean Gemini 2.5 lane for cheap multimodal traffic and quick agents

Context
1.0M
Released
1y ago
Input / 1M tokens
$0.10
Output / 1M tokens
$0.40
Cached input / 1M tokens
$0.01
Cache write / 1M tokens
$0.08

Sources:models.devOpenRouter

Benchmarks

DeepSWE is the primary coding benchmark where an exact model evaluation exists. Other sourced evaluations appear below; missing scores are not zero.

Not evaluated in DeepSWE 1.1 as of 2026-09-22. Results are only shown for exact model versions in the official dataset. Official leaderboard.

No benchmark results have been matched to this model yet.

Specifications

Model family
Gemini
Type
Language model
Predecessor
—
Successor
—
Released
June 17, 2025
Model ID
google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
Openness
Closed
License
—
Input modalities
text, image, file, audio, video
Output modalities
text
Modality
text+image+file+audio+video->text
Tokenizer
Gemini
Max output tokens
66K
Knowledge cutoff
2025-01
Hugging Face
—
Source freshness
Metadata synced Oct 8, 2026, 10:17 PM UTC
Additional source evidence
Source model
google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
Source family
gemini-flash-lite
Last updated
2025-06-17
Knowledge cutoff
2025-01
Model context
1.0M
Model output limit
66K
Open weights
No
File attachments
Yes
Reasoning
Yes
Tool calling
Yes
Structured output
Yes
Temperature control
Yes

Published benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreEvaluation detailsEvidence
Artificial Analysis Coding Index9.5 · index2026-03-11Source
SciCode19.3 · percent correct2026-03-11Source
Terminal-Bench Hard4.5 · success rate2026-03-11Source
Complete source record (JSON)
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Infrastructure

Provider availability

All providers
ProviderEndpointContextInput /M tokensOutput /M tokensCached input /M tokensCache write /M tokensUptime 1dData handling
Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studio/flex1.0M$0.05$0.20$0.005$0.04100.00%
ZDR: No

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studio/flexBatch pricing1.0M$0.05$0.20$0.005$0.04100.00%
ZDR: No

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Googlegoogle-vertex/eu1.0M$0.10$0.40$0.01$0.0895.21%
ZDR: Yes

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Googlegoogle-vertex1.0M$0.10$0.40$0.01$0.08100.00%
ZDR: Yes

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Googlegoogle-vertex/euBatch pricing1.0M$0.10$0.40$0.01$0.0895.76%
ZDR: No

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Googlegoogle-vertexBatch pricing1.0M$0.10$0.40$0.01$0.08100.00%
ZDR: No

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studio1.0M$0.10$0.40$0.01$0.0899.93%
ZDR: No

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studioBatch pricing1.0M$0.10$0.40$0.01$0.0899.93%
ZDR: No

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studio/priority1.0M$0.18$0.72$0.02$0.15100.00%
ZDR: No

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studio/priorityBatch pricing1.0M$0.18$0.72$0.02$0.15100.00%
ZDR: No

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Provider data:OpenRouter

Text provenance

Gemini app/web

Google SynthID text watermarking

Google DeepMind says text generated in the Gemini app and web experience is watermarked with SynthID by adjusting token probabilities.

Official explanation