Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

Newer version available: Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

Released
2025-07-22
Last refreshed
2026-10-17
Status
Researched 28d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: restrictedMultimodalCodingRAGAgentsLong contextVisionJSON / Tool use
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Specifications
Released
2025-07-22
Context
1M
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2025-01
Specialization
general
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryRestricted
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Training
Pretrained
Created by
Google DeepMind

Pioneering artificial intelligence research.

London, United Kingdom
Founded 2014
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$0.400
Input / 1M
$0.100

Cheapest of 3 routes · Google AI Studio

Providers(3)
Google AI StudioOpenRouterVercel AI Gateway
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Links
Website

About

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite available via OpenRouter. Pricing: $0.1/1M input, $0.4/1M output.

Providers(3)

Compare all 3

Compare API pricing across 3 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MCacheRoute
Google AI Studio$0.100$0.400-
Serverless
OpenRouter$0.100$0.400read $0.010
Serverless
Vercel AI Gateway$0.100$0.400read $0.010
Serverless

Deprecated provider routes(1)

ProviderStatusCatalog ID
GCP Vertex AI
DeprecatedRetired October 20, 2026
gemini-2.5-flash-lite

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LiteLLM

Gateway

Open-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.

Free OSSGoogle AI StudioGCP Vertex AI

OpenRouter

Hybrid

Unified hybrid gateway to 500+ models from 80+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with an optional Auto Router that selects a model per prompt from market spend data.

Passthrough + feeGoogle AI StudioGCP Vertex AI

Portkey

Gateway

Production AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, caching, and guardrails; MIT-licensed open-source core is self-hostable. Now part of Palo Alto Networks as Prisma AIRS AI Gateway.

SubscriptionGoogle AI StudioGCP Vertex AI

AIRouter

Router

Commercial LLM router (branded "AI Router" on its site) that picks the best model per request via a Decision API or an OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions endpoint, with a private selection mode that routes on anonymized patterns; sold as BYOK subscription plans priced by routed tokens.

SubscriptionGoogle AI StudioGCP Vertex AI

Helicone

Gateway

Observability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache-2.0 open-source platform with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.

SubscriptionGoogle AI StudioGCP Vertex AI

Kong AI Gateway

Gateway

Multi-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.

SubscriptionGoogle AI StudioGCP Vertex AI

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalJSON / Tool useStructured OutputsCode Execution

Benchmark peer barsfor JSON / Tool use

BFCLRank 36 of 58
Claude Opus 4.5
77.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5
73.2
Gemini 3 Pro
72.5
GLM-4.6
72.4
Gemini 2.5 Flash Litecurrent
36.9

Benchmark scores(1)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionEvaluationSource
BFCL
36.9v4Observed 2026-10-26
Configuration: Gemini-2.5-Flash-Lite (FC)
Harness: BFCL V4 official evaluation (gorilla berkeley-function-call-leaderboard), FC mode
Evaluator: Gorilla LLM team (UC Berkeley)
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: BFCL V4 leaderboard (Last Updated 2026-04-12), entry 'Gemini-2.5-Flash-Lite (FC)': rank 52, Overall Acc 36.87%; Multi Turn 13.50%, Web Search 21.00%, Memory 20.65%, Non-Live AST 86.60%, Live 65.80%, Irrelevance 92.50%. Retrieved 2026-10-26.
Source

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