Fast Gemini model balancing multimodal reasoning, tool use, and cost
Gemini Flash-Lite Latest by google is offered by 6 providers on this page. Its official list price is $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is OrcaRouter at $0.25 / $1.50 per 1M, about 1.2× below the list price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it.
The context window is 1,048,576 tokens, with an output limit of 65,536 tokens. It supports reasoning, tool use, and structured output. Accepted input modalities are Text, Image, Video, Audio, and PDF. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2026-03.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OrcaRouter | Gateway | $0.25 | $1.50 | $0.025 | — | 1,048,576 | 65,536 | |
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | $0.25 | $1.50 | $0.025 | — | 1,048,576 | 65,536 | |
| VertexOfficial | Cloud | $0.25 | $1.50 | $0.025 | — | 1,048,576 | 65,536 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.30 | $2.50 | $0.03 | $0.083 | 1,048,576 | 65,536 | |
| GoogleOfficial | First-party | $0.30 | $2.50 | $0.03 | — | 1,048,576 | 65,536 | |
| Tempr Gateway | Gateway | $0.30 | $2.50 | $0.03 | — | 1,048,576 | 65,536 |
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.
| Provider | Audio in | Audio out |
|---|---|---|
| OrcaRouter | $0.502.0× | — |
| Merge Gateway | $0.502.0× | — |
| Vertex | $0.502.0× | — |
Audio tokens are priced on a separate scale from text tokens, so these are not comparable with the text prices above. The multiplier compares each price with the same provider's text price for the same direction.