gemini-2.5-flash-lite API pricing
Google Gemini charges $0.1 per million input tokens and $0.4 per million output tokens for gemini-2.5-flash-lite, and $0.01 per million cached input tokens. A typical request of 1,000 input and 500 output tokens costs $0.0003, or $0.00015 through the batch API.
Prices updated October 28, 2026
Input / 1M tokens
$0.1
Output / 1M tokens
$0.4
Cached input / 1M tokens
$0.01
Typical request
$0.0003
gemini-2.5-flash-lite price per million tokens
| Token type | Standard | Batch API |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.1 | $0.05 |
| Cached input | $0.01 | $0.01 |
| Output | $0.4 | $0.2 |
gemini-2.5-flash-lite supports a 1.05M-token context window, up to 65.5K output tokens, image input, tool calling and reasoning.
What gemini-2.5-flash-lite costs per request
| Request | 1 request | 1,000 requests | 1M requests |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message (300 in, 200 out) | $0.00011 | $0.11 | $110.00 |
| Typical request (1K in, 500 out) | $0.0003 | $0.30 | $300.00 |
| Long document summary (20K in, 1K out) | $0.0024 | $2.40 | $2,400.00 |
| Coding agent step (50K in, 2K out) | $0.0058 | $5.80 | $5,800.00 |
At standard rates. A token is about 4 characters of English text, so 1,000 tokens is roughly 750 words. Google Gemini counts tokens with its own tokenizer, so the same text can be a different number of tokens.
Models with a similar price
| Model | Provider | Input / 1M | Cached input / 1M | Output / 1M | Typical request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gpt-5-nano | OpenAI | $0.05 | $0.005 | $0.4 | $0.00025 |
| mistral-small | Mistral | $0.1 | $0.01 | $0.3 | $0.00025 |
| deepseek-coder | DeepSeek | $0.14 | $0.014 | $0.28 | $0.00028 |
| ministral-3-14b-2512 | Mistral | $0.2 | $0.02 | $0.2 | $0.0003 |
| ministral-14b-2512 | Mistral | $0.2 | $0.02 | $0.2 | $0.0003 |
| gpt-6-luna | OpenAI | $0.1 | $0.01 | $0.5 | $0.00035 |
| claude-haiku-5-5 | Anthropic | $0.1 | $0.01 | $0.5 | $0.00035 |
| mistral-tiny | Mistral | $0.25 | $0.025 | $0.25 | $0.000375 |
Other Google Gemini models
- gemini-2.5-flash $0.3 / $2.5
- gemini-2.5-pro $1.25 / $10
- gemini-3-flash-preview $0.5 / $3
- gemini-3.1-flash-lite $0.25 / $1.5
- gemini-3.1-pro-preview $2 / $12
- gemini-3.5-flash $1.5 / $9
- gemini-3.5-flash-lite $0.3 / $2.5
- gemini-3.6-flash $0.75 / $3.75
- gemini-3.7-flash $0.75 / $3.75
- gemini-3.8-flash $0.75 / $3.75
- gemini-4-argon $2 / $10
- gemini-omni-1.1-flash $1.5 / $9
Source: Google Gemini pricing.