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Gemini 2.5 Flash

1.05M ctxTextImageAudio Tools Reasoning

Released Jun 17, 2025 · 297B tokens this week · 2 providers

Overview

A fast, low-cost Gemini with an optional thinking budget you control per request. Heavily used for summarisation, extraction and chat over large corpora. A dependable workhorse that is hard to beat on cost per useful token.

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Providers

Reference data — not yet measured from live traffic

PROVIDER		MAX OUT		OUTPUT /M				QUANT
Google AI StudioCheapest	1.05M	66K	$0.30	$2.50	350ms	265	99.92%	Full
Google Vertex AI	1.05M	66K	$0.32	$2.63	400ms	240	99.85%	Full

Latency p50 reflects a provider’s API endpoint responsiveness — the round-trip to its API, not per-token inference time. These figures, with throughput and uptime, are reference data until the gateway aggregates its own traffic.

Price comparison

Blended $ per 1M tokens

DeepSeek V3.2$0.37

Grok 4 Fast$0.42

Gemini 2.5 Flash$1.95

GPT-5.2$10.94

Claude Sonnet 4.5$12.00

Blended rate per 1M tokens, weighted one part prompt to three parts completion — roughly the shape of a chat workload. Your mix will move the number.

Call it

OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and go

curl https://model.cards/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MODELCARDS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "google/gemini-2.5-flash",
    "messages": [
      { "role": "user", "content": "Summarize the tradeoffs of speculative decoding." }
    ]
  }'