Using Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite on Google AI Studio

Implementation guide · Gemini 2.5 · Google DeepMind

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Google AI Studio exposes Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite through model ID gemini-2.5-flash-lite. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

1
Create an account at Google AI Studio and generate an API key.
2
Use the Google AI Studio SDK or REST API to call gemini-2.5-flash-lite — see the documentation for request format.
3
You'll be billed $0.10/1M input, $0.40/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

API Portal Documentation Pricing

Code Examples

Install

pip install google-genai

API key

GOOGLE_API_KEY

Model ID

gemini-2.5-flash-lite

Use the model name directly, e.g. "gemini-2.0-flash", "gemini-1.5-pro", or "gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06".

import os
from google import genai

client = genai.Client(api_key=os.environ["GOOGLE_API_KEY"])
response = client.models.generate_content(
    model="gemini-2.5-flash-lite",
    contents="Hello"
)
print(response.text)

Pricing on Google AI Studio

Type	Price (per 1M)
Input tokens	$0.10
Output tokens	$0.40

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalJSON / Tool useStructured OutputsCode Execution

About Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

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

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Model Specs

Released2025-07-22

Context1m

ArchitectureDecoder Only

Knowledge cutoff2025-01