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Google Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
google·google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite-4·GA·Closed·gemini-flash-lite series
Low-latency Gemini model for high-volume multimodal and agent workloads
At a glance
Reference price$0.10 / $0.40 per 1M
Cache read $0.025 · Helicone
Lowest paid$0.10 / $0.40
Helicone Gateway
Context1,048,576
Output limit65,535
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use? Structured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
Modalities
TextImage
Knowledge cutoff2025-07
Released / updated2025-07-22 / 2025-07-22
Quality & performance
Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.
Available at 1 providers1 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helicone gemini-2.5-flash-lite | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.025 | $0.10 | 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
1Helicone$31.00
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
Toggle (on / off)budget_tokens ≥ 512 ≤ 24,576
Related models
Gemini 3.5 Flash Litesame series$0.30 / $2.50Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (Google Vertex AI)same series$0.30 / $2.50Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (Google AI Studio)same series$0.30 / $2.50Qwen3.7 Flashcheaper alternative$0.03 / $0.118Qwen Flashcheaper alternative$0.022 / $0.216Qwen Turbocheaper alternative$0.044 / $0.087Laguna S 2.1cheaper alternative$0 / $0
Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input list $0.10Output list $0.40Min blended $0.175
Price history accumulates from each data sync; currently only 1 sample(s) (2026-08-21). Each future sync adds a point, and once accumulated a line is drawn here.