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Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite API Pricing
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite costs $0.075 per 1M input tokens and $0.30 per 1M output tokens. These rates were last verified on .
Published rates and billing units
| Billing dimension | USD list price |
|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.075 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $0.30 |
Verified 2026-08-26 · Official source · Pricing methodology. Taxes, optional services and account-specific discounts are not included.
Cost examples
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1M input + 1M output
$0.375
A direct per-million comparison against every other text model.
100K input + 25K output
$0.015
A compact chat, summarization, or analysis workload.
10M input + 2M output
$1.35
A monthly production estimate for heavier RAG or agent traffic.
75% cached input + 250K output
Not listed
Google Gemini does not publish a cached-input rate for this model in our dataset.
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Input cost
$0.075
Output cost
$0.30
Total
$0.375
Price history
No list-price movement across 164 daily snapshots from 2026-06-01 to 2026-11-11.
When to use Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Good fit
- high-volume routing, classification, extraction, summaries, and fallback traffic
- long-document and repository-scale prompts where context window matters
Be careful with
- frontier reasoning or ambiguous tasks where failure is more expensive than token spend