Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite API pricing
Published on-demand rates for Google's gemini/gemini-2.5-flash-lite, captured 2026-09-21 from public pricing data and committed to our archive. Context window 1.05M tokens; first observed in our archive 2025-07-28.
| Meter | USD per 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.100 |
| Output | $0.400 |
| Cached input | $0.010 |
Standard on-demand rates. Excludes batch endpoints and negotiated pricing; confirm on Google's pricing page before committing.
What it costs on a real workload
Per 1M tokens processed, at the rates above. How the four profiles are defined.
| Profile | In / out mix | Cached share | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieval | 800k / 200k | 70% | $0.110 |
| Chat | 500k / 500k | 30% | $0.237 |
| Content | 200k / 800k | 20% | $0.336 |
| Agent | 900k / 100k | 85% | $0.061 |
Observed rate history
| Observed | Input | Output | Cached input | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-28 | $0.100 | $0.400 | $0.025 | entered our archive |
| 2026-01-26 | $0.100 | $0.400 | $0.010 | repricing observed |
Dates are when we observed the rate in our own snapshots, which can lag the provider's announcement. Rates per 1M tokens.
What the record shows
We have observed one change to Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite's rates since it entered our archive on 2025-07-28. The most recent, on 2026-01-26, left the output rate unchanged.
Against the 40 models we price, it is the 6th cheapest for retrieval-shaped work, which reads a great deal and writes little, and the 7th cheapest for content-shaped work, which does the reverse. The two are close, so it holds its position whichever way your workload leans.
It charges 4.0 times more for output than for input, against a median of 5.0 times across the set. That is narrower than most, so it punishes long answers less than the typical model does.
Inside Google's own lineup it is the 2nd cheapest of the 7 models we track on this workload, so 1 cheaper and 5 more expensive options sit on the same account behind the same key.
No model we price offers a larger context window, so a request too long for Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite is too long for anything we track, and the answer is to change the shape of the request rather than the model.
Cached input reads at $0.010 against a standard input rate of $0.100, a 90% discount on the part of your prompt that repeats.
It accepts image input and Google publishes a tokenisation rule for it, so a scanned page can be priced honestly: about 1,032 tokens for a US Letter page at 200 DPI, before the instructions you send with it.
Its 1.05M token context window holds roughly 786,000 words of English text in a single request, or about 1,016 scanned pages at the per-page figure above. A workload that does not fit cannot run here at any price, which is a capability limit rather than a cost one.
Priced near this one
Closest to Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite on a retrieval workload, cheaper and more expensive alike. Cost only; we publish no quality score.
| Model | Provider | Input | Output | vs Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ministral 3 14B | Mistral | $0.200 | $0.200 | 9% less |
| GPT 5 Nano | OpenAI | $0.050 | $0.400 | 14% less |
| Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite | $0.075 | $0.300 | 19% less | |
| Devstral Small | Mistral | $0.100 | $0.300 | 28% more |
Retrieval profile: 800k in, 200k out, 70% cached where offered.
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