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Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking
Deprecated compatibility alias. Requests route to Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite with the stable thinking path.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Input
- Text, Images, Audio
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- low · medium · high
- Discovery tier
- Efficient
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.10
- Output
- $0.40
- Cache read
- $0.01
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 (09/2025) – Thinking compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – ThinkingGoogleThis model | Gemini 2.5 Flash LiteGoogleRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||
| Discovery tier | Efficient | Efficient |
| Added | Sep 25, 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 | $0.10 | $0.10 |
| Output | $0.40 | $0.40 |
| Cache read | $0.01 | $0.01 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | — | 250.0 tok/s |
| Time to first token | — | 0.5 s |
| Request success (24h) | 72.1% | 99.5%Best |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 10.4Best | 6.7 |
| Math Index | 68.7Best | 35.3 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | No |
| PDF input | Yes | No |
| 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 (09/2025) – Thinking
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Intelligence Index
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking10.4
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite6.7
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: Better than 22% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: 68.7Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 35.3
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: 64.7%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 32.0%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: 7.0%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 3.7%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: 70.9%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 47.4%
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: 80.8%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 72.4%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: 52.6%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 31.5%
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: 68.8%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 40.0%
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: 68.7%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 35.3%
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: —
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 50.0%
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: —
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 92.6%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: 12.9%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 2.3%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: 30.7%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 19.0%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: 64.7%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 32.0%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
| Leaderboard | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Vision Style Control · Creative Writing | #10 · 1188.3 | Not in top 20 |
| 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.
- Request success (24h)
- 72.1%
- Failing
- 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-09-2025-thinking",
"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-09-2025-thinking",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Related models
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