Google · Efficient
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview
Ultra-lightweight and fast variant of Gemini 2.5 Flash. Preview release optimized for speed and efficiency.
- Reasoning
- Vision
- Audio input
- Input
- Text, Images, Audio
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- low · medium · high
- Discovery tier
- Efficient
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.15
- Output
- $0.60
- Cache read
- $0.015
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 65.5K
Side by side
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite PreviewGoogleThis model | Gemini 2.5 Flash LiteGoogleRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||
| Discovery tier | Efficient | Efficient |
| Added | Jun 17, 2025 | Jun 17, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1.05M | 1.05M |
| Max output | 65.54K | 65.54K |
| Average output | — | 42 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.15 | $0.10Best |
| Output | $0.60 | $0.40Best |
| Cache read | $0.015 | $0.01Best |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | — | 250.0 tok/s |
| Time to first token | — | 0.5 s |
| Request success (24h) | 99.5% | 99.5% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 6.7 | 6.7 |
| Math Index | 35.3 | 35.3 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Audio input | Yes | Yes |
| Video input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | low, medium, high | low, medium, high |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Intelligence Index
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview6.7
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite6.7
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview: Better than 6% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview: 35.3Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 35.3Top
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview: 32.0%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 32.0%Top
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview: 3.7%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 3.7%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview: 47.4%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 47.4%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview: 72.4%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 72.4%Top
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview: 31.5%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 31.5%Top
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview: 40.0%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 40.0%Top
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview: 35.3%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 35.3%Top
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview: 50.0%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 50.0%Top
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview: 92.6%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 92.6%Top
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview: 2.3%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 2.3%Top
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview: 19.0%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 19.0%Top
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview: 32.0%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 32.0%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
| Leaderboard | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Vision Style Control · Captioning | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1182.4 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Prompt cache hits
- 0.0%
- About $0.15 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 99.5%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17",
"reasoning_effort": "medium",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Related models
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