Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
Our take
AI-assisted analysis based on the sources below. Suitability is an editorial assessment; test it on your own workload.
According to its OpenRouter catalog entry, google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite is a lightweight reasoning model in Google's Gemini 2.5 family, positioned for very low latency and cost-efficient throughput. The catalog lists multimodal inputs (text, image, file, audio, and video) with text output, a context window of about one million tokens, tool calling, structured outputs, and optional reasoning controls. These capabilities are vendor-catalog claims; no independent model card or benchmark results were available in this source pack, so performance should be validated on your workload.[1]
Strengths
- Catalog-reported positioning: a lightweight variant tuned for low latency and high token throughput, with reasoning optional rather than mandatory.[1]
- Multimodal input (text, images, files, audio, and video) with text output, plus a context window of roughly one million tokens.[1]
- API surface includes tool calling, structured outputs, seed, and response-format controls, per the catalog.[1]
Limitations
- Output is text only; the catalog does not list image or audio generation.[1]
- Evidence is catalog-only: this source pack has no independent model card and no benchmark entries, so throughput and quality claims are unverified and need workload validation.[1]
- The catalog lists a knowledge cutoff of January 31, 2025.[1]
Where to use it
- Suggested, not measured: high-volume, latency-sensitive text tasks such as classification, extraction, or summarization where cost efficiency matters.[1]
- Suggested, not measured: pipelines that ingest mixed media (audio, video, images, documents) and return text.[1]
- Suggested, not measured: long-document or multi-document analysis using the large context window, subject to workload validation.[1]
Sources
- [1] OpenRouter catalog · Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash LiteSources checked: Nov 13, 2026
About this model
Description below is the original text supplied by OpenRouter, shown in the source language.
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is a lightweight reasoning model in the Gemini 2.5 family, optimized for ultra-low latency and cost efficiency. It offers improved throughput, faster token generation, and better performance...
Specifications
- Model ID
- google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
- Creator
- Added to OpenRouter
- 22.07.2025
- Context length
- 1,048,576
- Modality
- text+image+file+audio+video->text
- Input modalities
- text, image, file, audio, video
- Output modalities
- text
- Token pricing
- USD per 1M tokens: in $0.100 / out $0.400
- Knowledge cutoff
- 31.01.2025
- Expiration date
- —
Tasks and capabilities
A grade appears only where the source supplies a matching measurement for that task, the model is active and the cohort holds at least 10 comparable models. The capability column lists facts the source declares — supported formats, reasoning and tool parameters — which are not measured quality.
| Task | Grade | Source-declared capability |
|---|---|---|
| General quality | No measurement | reasoning: optional · parameters: include_reasoning, reasoning |
| Coding | No measurement | — |
| Agents | No measurement | parameters: structured_outputs, tool_choice, tools |
| Writing | No measurement | output: text |
| Reasoning | No measurement | reasoning: optional · parameters: include_reasoning, reasoning |
| Document analysis | No measurement | input: file |
| Vision | No measurement | input: image |
| Image generation | No measurement | — |
| Audio | No measurement | input: audio |
| Video | No measurement | input: video |
| Embeddings | No measurement | — |
Evaluations
No evaluations are supplied for this model.
How grades work
Each letter grade compares a model only against other models scored by the same source and metric in the current snapshot. S means the top 10%, A the next 20%, B the next 30%, C the rest. Models without a published measurement are shown as not rated — a supported format alone never implies measured quality.
- S — S — top 10% of the cohort
- A — A — next 20% of the cohort
- B — B — next 30% of the cohort
- C — C — below the B band
Providers
Optional live provider statistics from OpenRouter. Missing values are unknown, not zero.
| Provider | Context length | Price in /1M | Price out /1M | Latency p50 (30m, s) | Throughput p50 (30m, tok/s) | Uptime (30m) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google AI Studio | 1,048,576 | $0.050 | $0.200 | — | — | 100% |
| Google AI Studio | 1,048,576 | $0.100 | $0.400 | — | — | 100% |
| Google AI Studio | 1,048,576 | $0.180 | $0.720 | — | — | 50% |
Provider data retrieved: 13.11.2026
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