Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

GoogleMCP Tool CallReasoning
google/gemini-2.5-flash-liteClosed API

Lean Gemini 2.5 lane for cheap multimodal traffic and quick agents

Benchmark Pricing$0.10 / 1M in$0.40 / 1M out$0.01 cache read
Context: 1,048,576 tokens•Max Output: 65,536 tokens•Knowledge: 2025-01•Released: 2025-06-17

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Context Window1,048,5761M tokens
Max Output65,53665.5K tokens
LicenseProprietaryCloud API only
Input Modalities
TextVisionPDFAudioVideo
Function / Tool CallingSupported (MCP Ready)
Structured OutputsGuaranteed Schema

MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL (MCP) READINESS

✓ Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite natively supports OpenAI / Anthropic format tool calling and is fully compatible with MCP servers and agent loops.

MCP Context Window Recommendations

With a context capacity of 1,048,576 tokens, this model can handle extremely large MCP resource manifests, complete database schemas, and multiple active server tool definitions simultaneously without degradation.

STANDARDIZED BENCHMARKS & EVALS

Artificial Analysis Coding Indexindex
9.5
SciCodepercent correct
19.3
Terminal-Bench Hardsuccess rate
4.5

API CALL INVOCATION EXAMPLE

// Example: Calling Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite via OpenAI SDK
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.GOOGLE_API_KEY,
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello! Can you inspect MCP tools?" }],
});

console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

PRICING BY PROVIDER

15 providers
Googlegemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.10 / $0.40$0.01 cache
NanoGPTgemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025-thinking
$0.10 / $0.40$0.01 cache
SAP AI Coregemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.10 / $0.40$0.01 cache
CrossModelgemini/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.10 / $0.40$0.01 cache
302.AIgemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025
$0.10 / $0.40
Poegoogle/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.07 / $0.28
LLMTRgoogle/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.10 / $0.10
Cloudflare AI Gatewaygoogle/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.10 / $0.40$0.01 cache
AIHubMixgemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.10 / $0.40$0.01 cache
Vercel AI Gatewaygoogle/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.10 / $0.40$0.01 cache
NEAR AI Cloudgoogle/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.10 / $0.40$0.01 cache
Ofoxgoogle/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.10 / $0.40$0.01 cache
Merge Gatewaygoogle/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.10 / $0.40$0.01 cache
Kilo Gatewaygoogle/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.05 / $0.20$0.01 cache
Vertexgemini-2.5-flash-lite
$0.10 / $0.40$0.01 cache

Rates in USD per 1M tokens. Rates synchronized from models.dev public catalog.

Prompt Caching Active

This model supports prompt caching at $0.01 / 1M tokens, saving up to 90% on repetitive MCP tool definitions and system instructions.

MODEL RESOURCES