Gemini 2.5 Flash
by Google
Gemini 2.5 Flash is Google's state-of-the-art workhorse model, specifically designed for advanced reasoning, coding, mathematics, and scientific tasks. It includes built-in "thinki
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Gemini 2.5 Flash
Added 10 July 2026
Overview
Gemini 2.5 Flash is Google's state-of-the-art workhorse model, specifically designed for advanced reasoning, coding, mathematics, and scientific tasks. It includes built-in "thinking" capabilities, enabling it to provide responses with greater...
Best for
Best for
High-throughput multimodal and extraction jobs
Use cases
- OCR-ish pipelines
- inbox triage
- cheap RAG generation
How to use / API access
Call via OpenRouter with model id `google/gemini-2.5-flash`.
- openrouter ·
google/gemini-2.5-flashDocs
OpenRouter id: google/gemini-2.5-flash
Benchmarks
- Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis): 15.5 index
- Design Arena 3d (other): 1071 elo · #100
- Design Arena codecategories (other): 1106 elo · #101
- Design Arena dataviz (other): 1135 elo · #86
- Design Arena gamedev (other): 1067 elo · #106
Enterprise DNA angle
Flash-class models are the default Omni workers for volume; escalate to Pro when quality gates fail.
Notes
Gemini 2.5 Flash is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.
Pros
- Fast and cost-efficient for volume
- Multimodal with large context
Cons
- Not the top reasoning pick vs Pro/Opus-class models
- Closed model
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