Google · Efficient
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025)
Deprecated compatibility alias. Requests route to the stable Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite model.
- 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) 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)GoogleThis 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) | 99.5% | 99.5% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 9.3Best | 6.7 |
| Math Index | 46.7Best | 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)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Intelligence Index
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025)9.3
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite6.7
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025): Better than 18% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025): 46.7Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 35.3
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025): 49.7%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): 5.1%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 3.7%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025): 65.1%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 47.4%
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025): 79.6%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 72.4%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025): 41.8%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 31.5%
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025): 64.1%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 40.0%
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025): 46.7%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 35.3%
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025): —
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 50.0%
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025): —
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 92.6%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025): 7.6%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): 30.4%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 19.0%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025): 49.7%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)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
| Leaderboard | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview (09/2025) | 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 $0.10 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-09-2025",
"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",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Related models
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