Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Released Jul 22, 2025 · 129B tokens this week · 2 providers
Overview
The cheapest Gemini tier, optimised for very high request volumes. Best for routing, tagging and short answers where cost per call dominates the design. Keeps the long context window of its bigger siblings.
Providers
Reference data — not yet measured from live traffic
| PROVIDER | MAX OUT | OUTPUT /M | QUANT | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Google AI StudioCheapest | 1.05M | 66K | $0.10 | $0.40 | 230ms | 340 | 99.94% | Full |
Google Vertex AI | 1.05M | 66K | $0.11 | $0.42 | 270ms | 310 | 99.86% | 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
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-lite",
"messages": [
{ "role": "user", "content": "Summarize the tradeoffs of speculative decoding." }
]
}'