Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite

Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite

google · Released Feb 25, 2025 Professional
Intelligence #10 / 576
82.0 Our Score
AA Index #191 / 378
18.5 Artificial Analysis
Input #177 / 577
$0.075 per 1M tokens
Output #210 / 577
$0.300 per 1M tokens
Context #17 / 577
1M tokens

Analysis Summary

Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite is Google's ultra-low-cost multimodal model, with an intelligence index of 18.5 and support for text, image, file, audio, and video inputs. Tool use and function calling are included, and the 1M token context window is a significant advantage for large-document or long-session workflows. Coding and agentic scores are limited but functional.

For businesses, it is best suited to high-volume, cost-sensitive pipelines where multimodal input handling and large context capacity matter more than frontier reasoning. Content processing, media tagging, document summarisation, and basic automation are natural fits. It is not suitable for complex reasoning, advanced coding, or high-stakes analytical tasks.

At $0.075 input and $0.30 output per million tokens, it is one of the most affordable models with this breadth of capability. Teams running large-scale content operations or needing a cheap multimodal backbone for automated pipelines will find it hard to beat on cost-efficiency.

Assessed June 6, 2026

Editorial notes

Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite from Google offers full multimodal input support, tool use, function calling, and a 1M token context window at the lowest price point in its class.

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Performance Profile

Intelligence3.3Technical2.4Value8.3Content3.9
Intelligence 3.3/10
Technical 2.4/10
Content 3.9/10
Value 8.3/10

How Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite compares

Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite ranks #191 of 378 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #204 of 315 for coding, #201 of 289 for agentic tasks. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 97% of the models we list. At $0.08 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 69% of comparable models.

About Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite

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

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Frequently asked questions about Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite

How much does Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite cost?

Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite costs $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite?

Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite has a context window of 1,048,576 tokens (1M).

Is Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite good for coding?

On our coding benchmark index, Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite ranks #204 of 315 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.

What can Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite do?

Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.

Who created Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite?

Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite is developed by Google and was released on February 25, 2025.