Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
AvailableStable small, cost-effective multimodal model.
Access details: Gemini API
The model ID to use in API requests.
gemini-2.5-flash-liteUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Capabilities & limits
- Context window
- 1M
- Maximum output
- 64K
- Image input
- Supported
- Tool calling
- Supported
- Structured output
- Supported
Pricing
USD / 1M tokens- Input
- $0.10
- Output
- $0.40
Standard rates per million tokens. Discounts and long-context rates, where offered, are on Google's pricing page.
Full rate card 6 rates
All prices in USD.
Standard input
$0.10 per 1M tokens- text, image, or video input
Audio input
$0.30 per 1M tokens- audio input
Standard output
$0.40 per 1M tokens- includes thinking tokens
Cached input
$0.01 per 1M tokens- text, image, or video input
Cached audio input
$0.03 per 1M tokens- audio input
Cache storage
$1.00 per 1M tokens per hour- context caching storage
Paid tier. Batch and Flex: $0.05 input ($0.15 audio) / $0.20 output. Priority: $0.18 input ($0.54 audio) / $0.72 output / $0.018 cached ($0.054 audio), storage $1.80. Free tier is free of charge. Grounding with Google Search: 1,500 requests per day free (shared with Flash), then $35 per 1,000 grounded prompts. Since 2026-09-18 access to 2.5 models is limited to projects that used them before.
Price history
Sep 13, 2026
Input $0.10 per million tokens
Oct 20, 2026
Input $0.10 per million tokens
Sep 13, 2026
Output $0.40 per million tokens
Oct 20, 2026
Output $0.40 per million tokens
Technical details
- Parameters
- Not published
- Active parameters
- Not published
- Architecture
- Sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) transformer with native multimodal support for text, vision, and audio (Gemini 2.5 family)
- Training / knowledge cutoff
- January 2025
- Input modalities
- Text, image, video, audio, PDF
- Output modalities
- Text
From Google
Official announcement ↗Release & lifecycle
- First available
- Jul 22, 2025
- available
- As of Sep 13, 2026
- available
- As of Oct 20, 2026