Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025

google · Released Sep 25, 2025
Intelligence #177 / 756
41.7 our score
Speed #6 / 335
348.1 tok/s
Input Price #247 / 798
$0.100 per 1M tokens
Output Price #286 / 798
$0.400 per 1M tokens
Context #58 / 798
1M tokens

Analysis Summary

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 is a multimodal Google model supporting text, images, files, audio, and video, with a 1M token context window. Tool use and function calling broaden its utility across document processing, media extraction, structured content generation, and lightweight automation. Its pricing is particularly attractive for high-volume workloads.

The model is a practical candidate for classification, summarisation, content briefs, and multimodal intake where latency and cost matter. The supplied reasoning, instruction-following, and agentic results are substantially below premium systems, and the preview designation adds operational uncertainty. Use it for routine, testable tasks with clear output schemas, while routing complex analysis and autonomous actions to a stronger model.

Assessed September 7, 2026

Editorial notes

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview offers multimodal input, tool use, a 1M token context, and very low pricing. Its modest reasoning and agentic results suit high-volume routine tasks rather than complex autonomous work.

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DFO Verdict

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview offers multimodal input, tool use, a 1M token context, and very low pricing. Its modest reasoning and agentic results suit high-volume routine tasks rather than complex autonomous work.

#177 of 756 overall

Benchmark scores

GPQA Diamond 65.1%
HLE 4.6%
MMLU Pro 79.6%
AIME 2025 46.7%
SciCode 28.5%
LiveCodeBench 64.1%
TerminalBench Hard 7.6%
τ²-Bench 30.4%
IFBench 41.8%
LCR 48%

Magenta = intelligence · Ink = technical/agentic · Cyan = content & long-context · Grey = community benchmarks. Data: Artificial Analysis, Hugging Face.

10.4 Intelligence Index·46.7 Math Index

How Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 compares

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 ranks #235 of 443 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 93% of the models we list. At $0.10 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 69% of comparable models.

Position in the field
Intelligence: smarter than 77% of models #177
Speed: faster than 98% of models #6
Price: cheaper than 69% of models #247
Context: larger than 93% of models #58
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 $0.10 in $0.40 out
OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra $10.00 in $50.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 $10.00 in $50.00 out
Claude Opus 5 $5.00 in $25.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 1M

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Intelligence2.4Technical0Value8.3Content5.5
Performance profile

Strongest on value. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.

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Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.10 $0.000100
Output $0.40 $0.000400

What would Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 cost your business?

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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

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DFO AI AUTOMATION

These numbers get smaller with the right architecture.

We route routine calls to cheap models and save Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 for the hard ones. Most clients cut their estimate by 60-80%.

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About Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025

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..

Frequently asked questions about Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025

How much does Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 cost?

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025?

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 has a context window of 1,048,576 tokens (1M).

What can Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 do?

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.

Who created Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025?

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 is developed by Google and was released on September 25, 2025.

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