R1 0528 vs Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025: side-by-side summary

R1 0528 and Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.

R1 0528, from DeepSeek, has a 163,840-token context window and is priced at $0.50/M tokens input, $2.15/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025, from Google, has a 1,048,576-token context window and is priced by the provider serving it on OpenRouter.

Context window

• R1 0528: 163,840 tokens
• Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025: 1,048,576 tokens

Price

• R1 0528: $0.50/M tokens input, $2.15/M tokens output
• Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025: Pricing varies by provider

Provided by

• R1 0528: DeepSeek
• Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025: Google

• R1 0528 model details, providers and pricing
• Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 model details, providers and pricing