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Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite

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Researched 29d ago

Last refreshed 2026-05-11. Next refresh: weekly.

RAGLong contextClassificationJSON / Tool use

Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite is worth evaluating for rag, long context, and classification when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Decision context: RAG task fit, 1 tracked provider route, and research from 2026-04-19.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating rag, long context, and classification
  • Workloads that can use a 1M context window
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Vision or document-understanding workloads

Cheapest output

$0.300

OpenRouter per 1M tokens

Provider routes

1

Tracked API hosts

Quality / dollar

Unknown

No task benchmark coverage yet

Freshness

2026-04-19

Researched 29d ago

fresh

Top use-case fit

RAG

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Long context

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Classification

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
OpenRouter$0.075$0.300
Serverless

Benchmark peer barsfor RAG

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

About

Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite available via OpenRouter. Pricing: $0.075/1M input, $0.3/1M output.

Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite has a 1M-token context window.

Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite input tokens at $0.075/1M, output at $0.3/1M.

Capabilities

Structured Outputs

Rankings

Specifications

Released2025-02-12
Context1M
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Specializationgeneral

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