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Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is a lightweight reasoning model in the Gemini 2.5 family, optimized for ultra-low latency and cost efficiency. It offers improved throughput, faster token generation, and better performance across common benchmarks compared to earlier Flash models. By default, "thinking" (i.e. multi-pass reasoning) is disabled to prioritize speed, but developers can enable it via the Reasoning API parameterOpens in new tab to selectively trade off cost for intelligence.

Modalities
In / out price
$0.10 / $0.40per 1M
Context
1.0M
Released
Jul 22, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
Jan 2025
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ProvidersPricingPerformanceUptimeBenchmarksAppsActivityDocumentationFAQExplore

Providers

Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick — Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark score summary for Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (Artificial Analysis and Vals AI)
SourceBenchmarkScore
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Non-reasoning) GPQA Diamond47.4%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Non-reasoning) HLE3.7%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Non-reasoning) IFBench31.5%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Non-reasoning) τ²-Bench Telecom19.0%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Non-reasoning) AA-LCR32.0%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Non-reasoning) CritPt0.0%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Non-reasoning) LiveCodeBench40.0%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Non-reasoning) Terminal-Bench Hard2.3%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Non-reasoning) MMLU-Pro72.4%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Non-reasoning) AIME 202535.3%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Non-reasoning) AIME50.0%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Non-reasoning) MATH-50092.6%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Reasoning) GPQA Diamond62.5%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Reasoning) HLE6.8%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Reasoning) IFBench49.9%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Reasoning) τ²-Bench Telecom18.4%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Reasoning) AA-LCR55.7%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Reasoning) CritPt0.0%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Reasoning) LiveCodeBench59.3%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Reasoning) Terminal-Bench Hard4.5%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Reasoning) MMLU-Pro75.9%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Reasoning) AIME 202553.3%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Reasoning) AIME70.3%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Reasoning) MATH-50096.9%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Sep '25) (Non-reasoning) GPQA Diamond65.1%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Sep '25) (Non-reasoning) HLE5.1%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Sep '25) (Non-reasoning) IFBench41.8%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Sep '25) (Non-reasoning) τ²-Bench Telecom30.4%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Sep '25) (Non-reasoning) AA-LCR49.7%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Sep '25) (Non-reasoning) CritPt0.0%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Sep '25) (Non-reasoning) LiveCodeBench64.1%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Sep '25) (Non-reasoning) Terminal-Bench Hard7.6%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Sep '25) (Non-reasoning) MMLU-Pro79.6%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Sep '25) (Non-reasoning) AIME 202546.7%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Sep '25) (Reasoning) GPQA Diamond70.9%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Sep '25) (Reasoning) HLE7.0%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Sep '25) (Reasoning) IFBench52.6%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Sep '25) (Reasoning) τ²-Bench Telecom30.7%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Sep '25) (Reasoning) AA-LCR64.7%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Sep '25) (Reasoning) CritPt0.0%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Sep '25) (Reasoning) LiveCodeBench68.8%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Sep '25) (Reasoning) Terminal-Bench Hard12.9%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Sep '25) (Reasoning) MMLU-Pro80.8%
Artificial AnalysisGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Sep '25) (Reasoning) AIME 202568.7%
Vals AIGemini 2.5 Flash Lite (Nonthinking) MedCode27.1%
Vals AIGemini 2.5 Flash Lite (Nonthinking) MedScribe72.8%
Vals AIGemini 2.5 Flash Lite (Nonthinking) SAGE v127.5%

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

API

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

Not currently available through EU in-region routing. In-region routing docs

Documentation

Guides, cookbooks, blog posts, and tools for building with Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite on OpenRouter.

  • Gemini 2.5 Flash API - Pricing, Quickstart & Provider ComparisonBlog post

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Frequently asked questions

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is a lightweight reasoning model in the Gemini 2.5 family, optimized for ultra-low latency and cost efficiency. It offers improved throughput, faster token generation, and better performance across common benchmarks compared to earlier Flash models. By default, "thinking" (i.e.

The Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite documentation on OpenRouter includes the Gemini 2.5 Flash API - Pricing, Quickstart & Provider Comparison blog post. The quickstart covers API keys and your first request, and the API reference lists every parameter.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite costs $0.10/M input tokens and $0.40/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.01/M tokens, Cache Write at $0.08333/M tokens, Image Input at $0.10/M tokens, Input Audio at $0.30/M tokens, and Input Audio Cache at $0.03/M tokens.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite has a 1,048,576 token context window. It supports up to 65,535 completion tokens.

Yes. Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite accepts text, images, files such as PDFs, audio, and video as input and returns text.

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, Gemini 4 Argon and 28 more are other text models from Google.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite was released on July 22, 2025. Its knowledge cutoff is January 31, 2025.

More models from Google

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is Google's native multimodal video generation and editing model, the successor to Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash. It generates clips up to 15 seconds long with native audio in 16:9 or 9:16, from 360p drafts up to 4K, and supports text-to-video, image-to-video, first and last frame interpolation, subject and video references with improved reference management, and editing or extending an uploaded video. Multi-turn editing and extension of a prior generation is supported through previous_job_id.

Note: video generation is only supported through the Video Generation API. See the guide: https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/overview/multimodal/video-generation

Text131K context$1.50 / $9
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash is Google's native multimodal video generation and editing model, the generally available successor to Gemini Omni Flash Preview. It is suited for text-to-video, image-to-video, first and last frame interpolation, subject and video references (up to three reference clips), and editing or extending an uploaded video, and generates clips from 360p drafts up to 4K with native audio in 16:9 or 9:16. Multi-turn editing and extension of a prior generation is supported through previous_job_id, up to 40 seconds of total video.

Note: video generation is only supported through the Video Generation API. See the guide: https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/overview/multimodal/video-generation

Text131K context$1.50 / $9
Gemini 4 Argon

Gemini 4 Argon is Google's flagship reasoning model, built for complex software engineering, deep mathematical and scientific problem solving, and autonomous multi-step agents. Google trained it to keep context across long, multi-step tasks and to turn long documents mixing text, tables, charts and images into a single grounded output. It leads the Vals Index across finance, legal, coding and tax work, and supports long decode of up to 1M output tokens in a single response.

Text1.0M context$2 / $10
Gemini 4 Argon (batch)

Gemini 4 Argon is Google's flagship reasoning model, built for complex software engineering, deep mathematical and scientific problem solving, and autonomous multi-step agents. Google trained it to keep context across long, multi-step tasks and to turn long documents mixing text, tables, charts and images into a single grounded output. It leads the Vals Index across finance, legal, coding and tax work, and supports long decode of up to 1M output tokens in a single response.

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Nano Banana 2.1

Nano Banana 2.1 (Gemini Nano Banana 2.1) is Google's image generation and editing model on the Flash tier, succeeding Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro. It improves product recontextualization, mask- and ink-based editing, and factual accuracy, and renders photorealistic skin tones, detailed materials, lighting, and coherent backgrounds. It accepts text and image inputs, returns images with optional text, and supports 1K, 2K, and 4K output plus extended aspect ratios via the image_config API Parameter.

Image66K context$1.50 / $30
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is a speech-to-text model from Google. It is suited for synchronous transcription that needs word-level timestamps or speaker diarization, with support for up to eight speakers. Audio can be up to one hour, or 30 minutes when timestamps or diarization are enabled.

Transcription$2 / $12
Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTS

Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTS is a text-to-speech model from Google and the fast, high-throughput member of the 3.8 TTS family alongside Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS. It is suited for conversational voice-agent pipelines, high-volume read-aloud, and voice replication workloads where latency and cost matter more than maximum expressiveness.

It accepts the same speech configuration as Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview, including the 30 prebuilt studio voices, and supports Google's Voice Design and Voice Replication through voice_... identifiers.

Speech$0.50 / $6
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS is a text-to-speech model from Google and the successor to Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview. It is the creative tier of the 3.8 TTS family, suited for narration, character work, and multi-speaker dialogue where voice fidelity, acting nuance, and regional dialect coverage matter more than latency.

It accepts the same speech configuration as its predecessor, including the 30 prebuilt studio voices, and supports Google's Voice Design (custom voices from a text description) and Voice Replication (voices cloned from a short sample) through voice_... identifiers.

Speech$0.50 / $9
Gemini 3.8 Flash

Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's most intelligent Flash model with significant gains from 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning.

Text1.0M context$0.75 / $3.75
Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)

Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's most intelligent Flash model with significant gains from 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning.

Text1.0M context$0.375 / $1.875
Gemini 3.7 Flash

Gemini 3.7 Flash is a multimodal model from Google for fast agentic workflows, coding, and complex multi-step reasoning. It is designed for tasks that require responsive performance and reliable multi-step problem solving.

Text1.0M context$0.75 / $3.75
Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch)

Gemini 3.7 Flash is a multimodal model from Google for fast agentic workflows, coding, and complex multi-step reasoning. It is designed for tasks that require responsive performance and reliable multi-step problem solving.

Text1.0M context$0.375 / $1.875
Gemini 3.6 Flash

Gemini 3.6 Flash is a high-efficiency model from Google for coding, agentic workflows, and web and app development. It is designed to produce polished outputs with fewer unnecessary edits and less hedging, while reducing token use and the number of model calls needed to complete a task.

Text1.0M context$0.75 / $3.75
Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)

Gemini 3.6 Flash is a high-efficiency model from Google for coding, agentic workflows, and web and app development. It is designed to produce polished outputs with fewer unnecessary edits and less hedging, while reducing token use and the number of model calls needed to complete a task.

Text1.0M context$0.375 / $1.875
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite

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Text1.0M context$0.30 / $2.50
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is a high-efficiency model from Google with upgraded agentic capabilities. It is suited for subagents that execute focused tasks within complex, multi-agent workflows.

Text1.0M context$0.15 / $1.25
Nano Banana 2 Lite

Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) is Google's fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini image model, built for high-velocity developer pipelines and rapid-fire visual exploration. It delivers text-to-image generation in roughly 4 seconds — about 2.7× faster than Gemini 3.1 Flash Image — while keeping the character consistency, precise editing, and real-world knowledge of the Nano Banana family.

A single drop-in API handles text-to-image, image editing, and multi-image composition. As a multimodal model it also returns text alongside images. Outputs are generated at 1K resolution across 14 aspect ratios and carry an invisible SynthID watermark so they can be identified as AI-generated.

Positioned as the best balance of quality and speed in the Nano Banana 2 line, it lets you generate thousands of images at a fraction of the cost of heavier production models — ideal for prototyping, real-time apps, and visual workflows at scale.

Image66K context$0.25 / $30
Nano Banana 2

Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, a.k.a. "Nano Banana 2," is Google’s latest state of the art image generation and editing model, delivering Pro-level visual quality at Flash speed. It combines advanced contextual understanding with fast, cost-efficient inference, making complex image generation and iterative edits significantly more accessible. Aspect ratios can be controlled with the image_config API Parameter

Image131K context$0.50 / $60
Nano Banana Pro

Nano Banana Pro is Google’s most advanced image-generation and editing model, built on Gemini 3 Pro. It extends the original Nano Banana with significantly improved multimodal reasoning, real-world grounding, and high-fidelity visual synthesis. The model generates context-rich graphics, from infographics and diagrams to cinematic composites, and can incorporate real-time information via Search grounding.

It offers industry-leading text rendering in images (including long passages and multilingual layouts), consistent multi-image blending, and accurate identity preservation across up to five subjects. Nano Banana Pro adds fine-grained creative controls such as localized edits, lighting and focus adjustments, camera transformations, and support for 2K/4K outputs and flexible aspect ratios. It is designed for professional-grade design, product visualization, storyboarding, and complex multi-element compositions while remaining efficient for general image creation workflows.

Image131K context$2 / $120
Gemini Embedding 2

Gemini Embedding 2 is Google's first multimodal embedding model. We currently support mapping text and images into a unified vector space for semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). It supports input context up to 8,192 tokens and flexible output dimensions from 128 to 3,072 (recommended: 768, 1536, or 3,072). Designed for cross-modal similarity — you can embed a text query and retrieve the most relevant images, or vice versa — making it well-suited for multimodal search, recommendation, and document understanding pipelines.

Embeddings$0.20/M tokens