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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
google·google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite·GA·Closed·gemini-flash-lite series
Lean Gemini 2.5 lane for cheap multimodal traffic and quick agents
At a glance
Official price$0.10 / $0.40 per 1M
Cache read $0.01 · Vertex
Lowest paid$0.10 / $0.10
LLMTR Gateway · 1.4× spread
1 more $0 channels
Context1,048,576
⚠ Providers report 1,000,000–1,048,756; the table below is authoritative
Output limit65,536
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2025-01
Released / updated2025-06-17 / 2025-06-17
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1 · rep. tier Reasoning
Intelligence11.4
Value114
Coding—
Agentic—
Output speed312 tok/s
TTFT24.64 s
Value formulaIQ 11.4 ÷ min blended $0.100 = 114
Reasoning tier → intelligence / speed (higher tier = stronger but slower)
Non-reasoningIQ 6.7 · 232 tok/s
ReasoningIQ 11.4 · 312 tok/s
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 21 providers18 with public prices · 1 free
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kenari gemini-2-5-flash-lite | Gateway | Free | — | — | 1,048,576 | 65,536 | ||
| LLMTR | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.10 | — | — | 1,048,576 | 65,536 | |
| Poe | Gateway | $0.07 | $0.28 | — | — | 1,024,000 ⚠ | 64,000 | |
| Jiekou.AI | Gateway | $0.09 | $0.36 | — | — | 1,048,576 | 65,535 | |
| OrcaRouter | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.01 | — | 1,048,576 | 65,536 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.01 | — | 1,048,756 ⚠ | 65,536 | |
| VertexOfficial | First-party | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.01 | — | 1,048,576 | 65,536 | |
| GoogleOfficial | First-party | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.01 | — | 1,048,576 | 65,536 | |
| Impossibl | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.01 | — | 1,048,576 | 65,536 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.01 | $0.083 | 1,048,576 | 65,535 | |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1LLMTR$25.00
2Poe$28.00
3OrcaRouter$29.20
4NanoGPT$29.20
5Vertex · Official$29.20
6Google · Official$29.20
1 more channels offer $0 (Kenari); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
Switch to LLMTR to save $4.20/mo (14%). The gap is small, so staying on the official channel is fine.
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.
Benchmark3 items
| Name | Conditions | Score | Metric | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Coding Index | — | 9.5 | index | Source ↗ |
| SciCode | — | 19.3 | percent correct | Source ↗ |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | — | 4.5 | success rate | Source ↗ |
The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.
Reasoning control
budget_tokens ≥ 512 ≤ 24,576effort = noneeffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = highToggle (on / off)effort = minimal
5 / 21 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended