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Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking

Added Sep 25, 2025

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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

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Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – ThinkingGoogleThis modelGPT 4.1 MiniOpenAIRemove
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Discovery tierEfficientEfficient
AddedSep 25, 2025Sep 10, 2025
Limits
Context window1.05MBest1.05M
Max output65.54KBest32.77K
Average output—19 tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$0.10Best$0.40
Output$0.40Best$1.60
Cache read$0.01Best$0.10
Performance
Request success (24h)72.1%100.0%Best
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index10.4Best10.2
Coding Index—20.2
Math Index68.7Best46.3
Capabilities
ReasoningYesNo
ToolsYesNo
VisionYesYes
Structured outputYesNo
PDF inputYesNo
Audio inputYesNo
Reasoning effortlow, 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
  • GPT 4.1 Mini

Intelligence Index

  • Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking10.4
  • GPT 4.1 Mini10.2

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: Better than 22% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Indexes

  • Coding Index

    Composite of the coding evaluations

    • Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: —
    • GPT 4.1 Mini: 20.2

  • Math Index

    Composite of the math evaluations

    • Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: 68.7Top
    • GPT 4.1 Mini: 46.3

Agentic work

  • GDPval-AAv2.1

    Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head

    • Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: —
    • GPT 4.1 Mini: 270 Elo

Document reasoning

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: 64.7%Top
    • GPT 4.1 Mini: 44.0%

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
    • GPT 4.1 Mini: 5.0%

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: 70.9%Top
    • GPT 4.1 Mini: 66.4%

  • MMLU-Pro

    Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning

    • Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: 80.8%Top
    • GPT 4.1 Mini: 78.1%

  • IFBench

    Following precise output instructions

    • Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: 52.6%Top
    • GPT 4.1 Mini: 38.3%

Coding

  • LiveCodeBench

    Recent competitive programming problems

    • Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: 68.8%Top
    • GPT 4.1 Mini: 48.3%

Math

  • AIME 2025

    Competition mathematics, 2025 problems

    • Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: 68.7%Top
    • GPT 4.1 Mini: 46.3%

  • AIME

    Competition mathematics

    • Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: —
    • GPT 4.1 Mini: 43.0%

  • MATH-500

    Competition math problems

    • Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: —
    • GPT 4.1 Mini: 92.5%

Legacy evaluations

  • Terminal-Bench Hard

    Earlier terminal task suite

    • Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: 12.9%Top
    • GPT 4.1 Mini: 7.6%

  • τ²-Bench Telecom

    Tool use in a customer-support simulation

    • Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: 30.7%
    • GPT 4.1 Mini: 52.9%Top

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) – Thinking: 64.7%Top
    • GPT 4.1 Mini: 44.0%

Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis

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
Hourly request success · last 72 hoursLowest hour 33.9%
  • 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.

Read the quickstart
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)

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