Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite API pricing
Standard tier, blended at 3:1 input to output: $0.175 per million tokens.
Google AI charges $0.100 per million input tokens and $0.400 per million output tokens for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite. It is sold in 3 forms, from $0.175 to $0.175 blended; the table below shows what each costs against standard. 4 of the models nearest it in price are cheaper on a blended basis.
Every tier of Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Blended at 3:1 input to output. The last column compares each against the standard tier.
| Source | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Standard | gemini-2.5-flash-lite | Google AI | $0.100 | $0.400 | $0.010 | $0.175 | Standard | ↗ |
| Standard | gemini-2.5-flash-lite | OpenRouter | $0.100 | $0.400 | $0.010 | $0.175 | Same | ↗ |
| Dated snapshot · Preview | gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025 | Google AI | $0.100 | $0.400 | $0.010 | $0.175 | Same | ↗ |
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Which tier to use
What each costs against standard in our data, and the job it is for.
Dated snapshots
One dated snapshot (gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025) is listed at the same price as standard. A snapshot pins the model to one release, while the undated name moves to newer releases when the vendor updates it. Pin a snapshot in production when your prompts depend on exact output; use the undated name to pick up improvements automatically.
Preview and beta
gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025 is a pre-release build, listed at the same price as standard. They can change behaviour or be withdrawn at short notice, so they suit trials rather than production.
Direct or through a reseller
Through OpenRouter, gemini-2.5-flash-lite is the same price as buying direct. A reseller is worth it for one bill across vendors and automatic fallback; buy direct for the vendor's own batch, caching and rate-limit terms.
Against the models nearest in price
Standard tiers, blended at a 3:1 input to output ratio.
| Source | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite This model | Google AI | $0.100 | $0.400 | 1,048,576 | $0.175 | ↗ |
| GPT-4.1 nano | OpenAI | $0.100 | $0.400 | 1,047,576 | $0.175 | ↗ |
| Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | OpenRouter | $0.100 | $0.320 | 131,072 | $0.155 | ↗ |
| Llama 4 Scout | OpenRouter | $0.100 | $0.300 | 1,310,720 | $0.150 | ↗ |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | Anthropic | $0.100 | $0.500 | 1,000,000 | $0.200 | ↗ |
| Llama 3 8B Chat Hf | Together AI | $0.200 | $0.200 | 8,192 | $0.200 | ↗ |
| GPT-5 nano | OpenAI | $0.050 | $0.400 | 272,000 | $0.138 | ↗ |
| GPT-4o mini | OpenAI | $0.150 | $0.600 | 128,000 | $0.263 | ↗ |
| Llama 3.2 1B Instruct | Together AI | $0.060 | $0.060 | 131,072 | $0.060 | ↗ |
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Questions
How much does Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite cost per million tokens?
$0.100 per million input tokens and $0.400 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.010. At a 3:1 input to output mix that blends to $0.175. Checked 28 Oct 2026.
What would Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite cost for a real workload?
A thousand requests a day at 2,000 input and 600 output tokens each comes to $13.20 a month on the standard tier.
What is the context window for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?
1,048,576 tokens of input, with up to 65,535 tokens of output.
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