Pricingby GlyphGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is a lightweight reasoning model in the Gemini 2.5 family, optimized for ultra-low latency and cost efficiency.
Ways to buy 3
| Way to buy | Input | Output | In / out per 1M | Cached | Vs list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
flex, cheapest · cached $0.005 | $0.05 | $0.2 | $0.05 / $0.2-50% vs list | $0.005 | -50% vs list |
The lab's own API · cached $0.01 | $0.1 | $0.4 | $0.1 / $0.4List price | $0.01 | List price |
priority · cached $0.018 | $0.18 | $0.72 | $0.18 / $0.72+80% vs list | $0.018 | +80% vs list |
USD per 1M tokens. Regions are separate routes.
Through a gateway
Your own numbers100M input and 20M output tokens a month: $18.00 direct.
Helicone$18.00+0%
Kong AI Gateway$18.00+0%
LiteLLM$18.00+0%
Vercel AI Gateway$18.00+0%
Cloudflare AI Gateway$18.90+5%
Requesty$18.90+5%
Eden AI$18.99+5.5%
OpenRouter$18.99+5.5%
Neon AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
A dash: not on that gateway's own model list. No published token fee: Martian Gateway, Portkey, TrueFoundry AI Gateway.
Related models
| In / out per 1M | Cheapest route | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Google · 131K | $1.5 | $9 | $1.5 / $9 | $3.38 | 131K | Lab list price | · | Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is Google's native multimodal video generation and editing model, the successor to Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash. |
Google · 131K | $1.5 | $9 | $1.5 / $9 | $3.38 | 131K | Lab list price | · | Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash is Google's native multimodal video generation and editing model, the generally available successor to Gemini Omni Flash Preview. |
Google · 1MCheapest: $2 on Google Gemini API (flex) | $2 | $10 | $2 / $10 | $4 | 1M | $2 on Google Gemini API (flex) | · | Gemini 4 Argon is Google's flagship reasoning model, built for complex software engineering, deep mathematical and scientific problem solving, and autonomous multi-step agents. |
Google · 66K | $1.5 | $7.5 | $1.5 / $7.5 | $3 | 66K | Lab list price | · | Nano Banana 2.1 (Gemini Nano Banana 2.1) is Google's image generation and editing model on the Flash tier, succeeding Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro. |
DeepSeek · 1MCheapest: $0.081 on Particle AI (us-flex) | $0.15 | $0.6 | $0.15 / $0.6 | $0.262 | 1M | $0.081 on Particle AI (us-flex) | · | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is the October 17, 2026 snapshot of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, served by DeepSeek under the deepseek-flash API model name. |
DeepSeek · 1M | $0.045 | $0.3 | $0.045 / $0.3 | $0.109 | 1M | on InferenceNet (fp8) | · | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a sparse mixture-of-experts model from DeepSeek, and the first built on the company's Causal Encoder-Decoder (CED) architecture. |
Anthropic · 1M | $0.1 | $0.5 | $0.1 / $0.5 | $0.2 | 1M | Lab list price | · | Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic's small, fast model for high-volume, cost-sensitive work such as summarization, subagents, and browser use. |
Cohere · 128K | $0.12 | Free | $0.12 / Free | $0.09 | 128K | Lab list price | · | Embed 5 Pro is the higher-accuracy tier of Cohere's Embed 5 family of multimodal embedding models (about 2.4B parameters). |
About Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Takes text, image, files, audio, video in and returns text. First listed Jul 24, 2025. Up to 66K output tokens. Blended price $0.175 per 1M tokens at 3 input to 1 output. Model id gemini-2-5-flash-lite.
Price history
List price since Jul 24, 2025, from Internet Archive snapshots of the OpenRouter catalog, then daily reads.
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Google cut its API price: cached input $0.025 to $0.01 per 1M tokens.
Questions
How much does Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite cost?
$0.1 per million input tokens and $0.4 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.01.
What is the context window of Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite?
1M tokens, with up to 66K tokens of output.
Where is Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite cheapest?
Of 3 routes tracked, Google Gemini API is cheapest at $0.05 input and $0.2 output per million tokens.