- Context
- 1Mtokens
- Released
- 1y ago
Preview snapshot of Gemini 2.5 Flash with controllable thinking budgets
- Multimodal model
- Accepts images, audio, video, files
- 1M context
- Reasoning
- Tools
How it compares
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- Source model
- google/gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20
- Source family
- gemini-flash
- Last updated
- 2025-05-20
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-01
- Model context
- 1M
- Model output limit
- 66K
- Open weights
- No
- File attachments
- Yes
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Temperature control
- Yes
Complete source record (JSON)
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"id": "google/gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20",
"name": "Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20",
"description": "Preview snapshot of Gemini 2.5 Flash with controllable thinking budgets",
"family": "gemini-flash",
"last_updated": "2025-05-20",
"knowledge": "2025-01",
"attachment": true,
"reasoning": true,
"tool_call": true,
"temperature": true,
"modalities": {
"input": [
"text",
"image",
"audio",
"video",
"pdf"
],
"output": [
"text"
]
},
"limit": {
"context": 1048576,
"output": 65536
},
"release_date": "2025-05-20",
"open_weights": false
}Text provenance
Gemini app/webGoogle SynthID text watermarking
Google DeepMind says text generated in the Gemini app and web experience is watermarked with SynthID by adjusting token probabilities.
Official explanationFrequently asked questions
Capabilities and specs
The context window is 1M tokens (1,048,576). The maximum output is 66K tokens (65,536).
Yes, it can read images, audio, video and files. Input modalities are text, image, audio, video and file.
Yes, tool calling (function calling) is supported.
Yes, a reasoning mode is supported.
The knowledge cutoff is 2025-01.
Quality and benchmarks
Matched on model kind and release date, with no comparable price. The closest alternatives are Apple On-Device Model (2025) by Apple, Apple Server Model (2025) by Apple and ERNIE 4.5 Turbo by Baidu.
Apple On-Device Model (2025)Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 vs Apple On-Device Model (2025)Apple Server Model (2025)Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 vs Apple Server Model (2025)ERNIE 4.5 TurboGemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 vs ERNIE 4.5 Turbo
Kimi K3, which holds rank 19 on Arena Text. Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 itself is closed, so Kimi K3 is the highest-ranked open-weight alternative.
Versions and lineage
Both models have a 1M tokens (1,048,576) context window. Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 was released on May 20, 2025, while Gemini 2.5 Flash was released on June 17, 2025 and costs $0.30 input and $2.50 output per 1M tokens.
Gemini 2.5 FlashGemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 vs Gemini 2.5 Flash
Licensing and access
No, it is closed, so it is neither open source nor open weights.
Basics
It was made by Google DeepMind and released on May 20, 2025.
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