Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

Name: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Author: Google

Reviewed 2026-07-22

Googlegoogle/gemini-2.5-flash-lite

Context: 1.05M
Price: $0.1/$0.4
Tooling: 3/5
Deploy: Cloud API

Best for

Long documents (~1.05M context)
Cost-sensitive, high-volume workloads

Skip if

You need open weights to self-host

Capability scores

Tool calling3/5

Multi-step reasoning2/5

Specifications

Context window: 1.05M tokens
VRAM: N/A (cloud-hosted)
License: proprietary
Pricing: $0.1/M input · $0.4/M output
Deployment: Cloud API
Docs: Model docs ↗

Our take

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite from Google offers a 1.05M-token context window and is well-suited to long-context work. Pricing is $0.1/M input · $0.4/M output, billed per token through the provider API.

Watch for the trade-offs: weights are closed, so you cannot self-host.

Compare to

DeepSeek V4 Flash

DeepSeek

1.05M context · $0.098/M input · $0.196/M output

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite

Google

1.05M context · $0.25/M input · $1.5/M output

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