Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite

Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite

google · Released Feb 25, 2025 Specialist
Intelligence #125 / 523
51.8 Our Score
AA Index #167 / 351
18.5 Artificial Analysis
Input #158 / 523
$0.075 per 1M tokens
Output #189 / 523
$0.300 per 1M tokens
Context #10 / 523
1M tokens

Analysis Summary

Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite sits in the Specialist tier on our leaderboard, ranked #125 of 523 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.075 input and $0.300 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers an exceptionally large context window suited to long-document workflows and supports tool use, function calling, and vision.

Editorial notes

Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite is an exceptionally affordable multimodal model with a 1M token context window, vision support, and tool/function calling at just $0.075/1M input tokens. Its reasoning and coding capabilities are modest, but for high-volume, cost-sensitive content tasks it represents outstanding value.

Assessed April 23, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence3.8Technical2.6Value8.3Content4.5
Intelligence 3.8/10
Technical 2.6/10
Content 4.5/10
Value 8.3/10

Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite offers a significantly faster time to first token (TTFT) compared to Gemini Flash 1.5, while maintaining quality on par with larger models like Gemini Pro 1.5,..

Capabilities

Tool Use Function Calling Vision

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

18.5 Intelligence Index
13.6 Coding Index
16.7 Agentic Index
21.7 Math Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 62.3% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 5.3% Humanity's Last Exam
MMLU Pro 77.9% Multi-task language understanding
MATH 500 93% Mathematical problem-solving
AIME 33% Competition mathematics
AIME 2025 21.7% Competition mathematics (2025)
SciCode 33.3% Scientific computing

Technical

LiveCodeBench 33.4% Live coding evaluation
TerminalBench Hard 3.8% Agentic terminal tasks
τ²-Bench 29.5% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 40.2% Instruction following
LCR 28.3% Long-context reasoning

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

OpenRouter ID google/gemini-2.0-flash-lite-001
Providergoogle
Model FamilyGemini 2
Release Date February 25, 2025
Context Length1,048,576 tokens
Max Completion8,192 tokens
Status Active

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.08 $0.000075
Output $0.30 $0.000300

Live Performance

Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.

98.9%
Avg Uptime
476ms
Best Latency (TTFT)
66 tok/s
Best Throughput
2/2
Active Endpoints
Available via: Google, Google AI Studio

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