Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite API Pricing
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite costs $0.10 per 1M input tokens and $0.40 per 1M output tokens. Prices were last refreshed on from the AI Pricing Guru daily pricing pipeline.
Cost examples
These examples use published list prices only. They exclude taxes, enterprise discounts, minimum charges, retries, batch discounts, and provider-specific billing rules.
1M input + 1M output
$0.50
A direct per-million comparison against every other text model.
100K input + 25K output
$0.02
A compact chat, summarization, or analysis workload.
10M input + 2M output
$1.80
A monthly production estimate for heavier RAG or agent traffic.
75% cached input + 250K output
$0.1325
Cached input is about 90% cheaper than standard input at list price.
Calculator for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
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Input cost
$0.10
Output cost
$0.40
Total
$0.50
Price history
No list-price movement across 29 daily snapshots from 2026-06-01 to 2026-06-29.
When to use Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Good fit
- high-volume routing, classification, extraction, summaries, and fallback traffic
Be careful with
- frontier reasoning or ambiguous tasks where failure is more expensive than token spend
- decisions that depend on unpublished context-window limits without checking the provider docs first