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Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

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 parameter(opens in new tab) to selectively trade off cost for intelligence.

Modalities

In / Out Price

$0.10 / $0.40per 1M

Context

1M

Released

Jul 22, 2025

Knowledge Cutoff

Jan 2025

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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 Exacto (highest tool-calling accuracy).

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. Higher percentages are better — and rank percentile shows where this model lands among all models on OpenRouter.

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.

Quick Start

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.

About Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

OpenRouter makes Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite available through a unified, OpenAI-compatible API using the model ID google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite. Requests can be routed across 2 providers, including Google Vertex and Google AI Studio, with automatic failover when an endpoint is unavailable.

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite accepts text, images, files such as PDFs, audio and video and returns text. It has a 1,048,576-token context window and a maximum output of 65,535 tokens.

On OpenRouter, Google: 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. Effective pricing can be lower when prompt caching applies. It was released on July 22, 2025; its knowledge cutoff is January 31, 2025.

More models from Google

  • Gemini 3.7 Flash
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash
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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.

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 2.5 Flash Lite is served by 2 providers on OpenRouter: Google Vertex and Google AI Studio. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.

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

$0.10$0.40$0.01$0.030.41s123 tps
99.93%
$0.10$0.40$0.01$0.030.42s127 tps
99.91%
$0.10$0.40$0.01$0.030.61s121 tps
99.48%

Throughput

127tok/s

P50, best across providers

Latency

0.41s

P50, best provider

AutoExacto Benchmarks
GPQA DiamondTAU-Bench
Google AI Studio
58.2%47.3%
auto-routing
54.2%47.3%
Google Vertex
53.9%45.3%
Google Vertex (EU)
52.2%44.0%
Uptime (3d)

100.00%

Availability (3d)

99.79%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours
Availability 99.79%
3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability
99.81%
Without Routing
95.91%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and customization options.

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