Google · Efficient
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Fast, cost efficient performance on complex tasks. The workhorse of the Gemini series. Stable release with improved capabilities. Audio input costs $1.00 per million audio tokens.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Audio input
- Video input
- Input
- Text, Images, Video, Audio
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- low · medium · high
- Discovery tier
- Efficient
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.30
- Output
- $2.50
- Cache read
- $0.03
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 65.5K
- Average output (7 days)
- 368 tokens
- Longer than 38% of 468 models
Side by side
Gemini 2.5 Flash compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogleThis model | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct OriginalQwenRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Qwen | |
| Discovery tier | Efficient | Balanced |
| Added | Jun 5, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1.05M | — |
| Max output | 65.54KBest | 32.77K |
| Average output | 368 tokens | 288 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.30 | $0.30 |
| Output | $2.50 | $1.90Best |
| Cache read | $0.03 | — |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 325.9 tok/s | — |
| Time to first token | 4.4 s | — |
| Request success (24h) | 99.7% | 100.0%Best |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 9.9 | 9.9 |
| Math Index | 60.3 | 70.7Best |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | No |
| Tools | Yes | No |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Audio input | Yes | No |
| Video input | Yes | No |
| Reasoning effort | 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
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original
Intelligence Index
- Gemini 2.5 Flash9.9
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original9.9
Gemini 2.5 Flash: Better than 20% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 60.3
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: 70.7Top
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 49.9%Top
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: 32.7%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 4.7%
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: 6.6%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 68.3%
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: 71.2%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 80.9%
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: 82.3%Top
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 39.0%
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: 42.7%Top
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 49.5%
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: 59.4%Top
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 60.3%
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: 70.7%Top
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 50.0%
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: —
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 93.2%
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 12.1%Top
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: 6.8%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 14.9%
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: 35.1%Top
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 49.9%Top
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: 32.7%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- Gemini 2.5 Flash
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original
| Leaderboard | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original |
|---|---|---|
| Vision Style Control · Captioning | #8 · 1211.4 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Entity Recognition | #13 · 1221.3 | Not in top 20 |
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.
- Throughput
- 325.9 tok/s
- Faster than 95% of 259 models
- Time to first token
- 4.4 s
- Quicker than 38% of 259 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 45.3%
- About $0.18 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 99.7%
- 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",
"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",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
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