gemini-2.5-flash-lite

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite serves as the high-efficiency member of the Gemini 2.5 family, engineered specifically to maximize intelligence per dollar. Designed for developers and enterprise builders, the model prioritizes rapid response times and high-throughput performance, making it suitable for tasks that require immediate output, such as intelligent routing, translation, and large-scale classification. Its architecture supports a massive 1 million-token context window, allowing users to process entire books, extensive codebases, or long documents without the need for manual chunking.

Built to push the boundaries of speed, the model features native reasoning capabilities that can be toggled on to improve accuracy in math and code generation tasks. This flexibility allows users to balance performance and cost dynamically based on the complexity of their specific use case. As a production-ready tool, it excels in high-scale operations where efficiency is paramount, offering a streamlined path for integrating advanced AI into mission-critical workflows. Its design lineage focuses on maintaining a balance between rapid, low-latency performance and the reasoning depth required for demanding enterprise applications.

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Provider: SAP AI Core
Model key: gemini-2.5-flash-lite
Release date: Jun 17, 2025
Last updated: Jun 17, 2025
Knowledge cutoff: 2025-01
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Cost

Input token cost: $0.10
Output token cost: $0.40

Limits

Output tokens: 65,536 tokens
Context window: 1,048,576 tokens

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Rates are shown per one million tokens. Combined means one million input plus one million output tokens.

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