Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06

Name: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06
Author: Google DeepMind

Released

2025-05-06

Last refreshed

2026-06-15

Status

Researched 28d ago

ProprietaryCommercial use: conditionalMultimodalRAGLong contextVisionJSON / Tool use

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 is worth evaluating for rag, long context, and vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

Teams evaluating rag, long context, and vision
Workloads that can use a 1m context window
Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence

Specifications

Family: Gemini 2.5
Released: 2025-05-06
Context: 1m
Architecture: Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff: 2025-01
Specialization: general
Openness: Proprietary
License: ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional

Created by

Google DeepMind

Pioneering artificial intelligence research.

London, United Kingdom

Founded 2014

Website

Pricing

Output / 1M

$10.00

Input / 1M

$1.25

Cheapest of 1 route · OpenRouter

Providers(1)

OpenRouter

View 1 provider route

Links

Website

About

Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 available via OpenRouter. Pricing: $1.25/1M input, $10/1M output.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 is a proprietary model in the Gemini 2.5 family. The structured metadata tracks a 1m-token context window, multimodal input, and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through OpenRouter, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $1.25 input and $10 output per 1M tokens. Headline tracked benchmarks include Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding 79.6.

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.

Vision

Q/$ D

1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

Provider	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Route
OpenRouter	$1.25	$10.00	Serverless

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalStructured Outputs

Benchmark peer barsfor Vision

Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal UnderstandingRank 14 of 46

Qwen3.6-Plus

86.0

ByteDance Doubao Seed 2.0 Pro

85.4

Qwen3.5-397B-A17B

85.0

Gemini 3.5 Flash

83.6

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06current

79.6

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.