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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.

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About Gemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash is Google's state-of-the-art workhorse model, specifically designed for advanced reasoning, coding, mathematics, and scientific tasks.

Best for

High-throughput multimodal and extraction jobs

Use cases

  • OCR-ish pipelines
  • inbox triage
  • cheap RAG generation

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

Key facts

What we have checked

Input price
$0.300 per million tokens
Checked OpenRouter models API
Output price
$2.50 per million tokens
Checked OpenRouter models API
Price on google-ai-studio
$0.015 per million cached input tokens
Checked OpenRouter models API
Price on google-ai-studio
$0.150 per million input tokens
Checked OpenRouter models API
Price on google-ai-studio
$1.25 per million output tokens
Checked OpenRouter models API
Latest version
google/gemini-2.5-flash
Checked OpenRouter models API
Time to first token (ms)
21,370
Checked Artificial Analysis
Time to first token (ms) on google-ai-studio
950
Checked OpenRouter models API
Output speed (tokens a second)
211.3
Checked Artificial Analysis
Terminal bench
17.1% (for 17 June 2025)
Checked Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Balrog
33.5% (for 17 June 2025)
Checked Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Dtbench
76.5% (for 17 June 2025)
Checked Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)

Each value shows when we last confirmed it and where it came from. Values we have not confirmed are left out, never guessed.

API access

How to call it

Call via OpenRouter with model id `google/gemini-2.5-flash`.

  • openrouter · google/gemini-2.5-flash · Docs

OpenRouter id: google/gemini-2.5-flash

Price

What Gemini 2.5 Flash costs, over time

Input price

$0.300 to $0.300

US dollars per million input tokens. 3 Sept 2026 to 10 Nov 2026, 44 days.

Source: OpenRouter models API. Checked .

Output price

$2.50 to $2.50

US dollars per million output tokens. 3 Sept 2026 to 10 Nov 2026, 44 days.

Source: OpenRouter models API. Checked .

Prices by host

HostPriceOver timeChecked
google-ai-studioCached input$0.015 per million cached input tokensSince 24 Oct 2026No change recordedOpenRouter models API
google-ai-studioInput$0.150 per million input tokensSince 24 Oct 2026No change recordedOpenRouter models API
google-ai-studioOutput$1.25 per million output tokensSince 24 Oct 2026No change recordedOpenRouter models API

Usage

How much Gemini 2.5 Flash is used

Tokens served a day

57.1B to 40.4B

tokens a day on OpenRouter. 19 Sept 2026 to 10 Nov 2026, 53 readings.

Source: OpenRouter model activity (748 of 748 series). Checked .

Scores

How Gemini 2.5 Flash scores

Each score comes from the named source and shows when we last confirmed it. A flag means the score needs care.

ScoreValueSourceChecked
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index15.5indexAs of 26 Oct 2026Artificial Analysis via OpenRouter
LMArena text rating (Elo)1,417EloAs of 10 Nov 2026LMArena (CC-BY-4.0), published 2026-11-09
LMArena vision rating (Elo)1,235EloAs of 10 Nov 2026LMArena (CC-BY-4.0), published 2026-11-09
Design Arena rating (Elo)1,132EloAs of 10 Nov 2026Design Arena via OpenRouter
Balrog (best-across-versions)33.5percentAs of 17 June 2025Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Dtbench (best-across-versions)76.5percentAs of 17 June 2025Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Frontiermath 2025 02 28 private (best-across-versions)4.8percentAs of 17 June 2025Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Frontiermath tier 4 2025 07 01 private (best-across-versions)4.2percentAs of 17 June 2025Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Lmca (best-across-versions)27.5percentAs of 17 June 2025Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Simplebench (best-across-versions)41.2percentAs of 17 June 2025Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)
Terminal bench (best-across-versions)17.1percentAs of 17 June 2025Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)

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Sources

Where this comes from

A source shows what was published when we checked it. It does not certify security, performance or a working installation. Read our method.

Changelog

What changed

No changes recorded yet. Releases, price changes and deprecations appear here, with their dates, once we track them for this record.

USAGE / OPENROUTER

How much Gemini 2.5 Flash is used

Tokens processed through OpenRouter each day. It shows what developers actually run, not every company's private traffic.

Tokens, last 7 days
260B ▼1.2%
Requests, last 7 days
81M
Tool calls, last 7 days
2.2M
People's vote
1417
Average cost per request
12.0¢
Price per million tokens
$0.3 in · $2.5 out
050B100B19 Sept: 57.1B tokens, 15.8M requests20 Sept: 50.9B tokens, 15.5M requests21 Sept: 80.3B tokens, 18.5M requests22 Sept: 81.3B tokens, 17.9M requests23 Sept: 80.1B tokens, 19.4M requests24 Sept: 71.1B tokens, 19.3M requests25 Sept: 71B tokens, 18.9M requests26 Sept: 55.5B tokens, 16M requests27 Sept: 49.9B tokens, 14.8M requests28 Sept: 66.2B tokens, 17.5M requests29 Sept: 74.1B tokens, 18.4M requests30 Sept: 70B tokens, 17.9M requests1 Oct: 72B tokens, 19.4M requests2 Oct: 80.6B tokens, 17.3M requests3 Oct: 58B tokens, 15.4M requests4 Oct: 56.9B tokens, 14.8M requests5 Oct: 70.8B tokens, 17.3M requests6 Oct: 68.9B tokens, 16.6M requests7 Oct: 65.2B tokens, 16.3M requests8 Oct: 64.1B tokens, 16.6M requests9 Oct: 62.2B tokens, 17.9M requests10 Oct: 51.4B tokens, 13.8M requests11 Oct: 46.1B tokens, 11.3M requests12 Oct: 61.2B tokens, 15.8M requests13 Oct: 59.9B tokens, 15M requests14 Oct: 61.5B tokens, 16.1M requests15 Oct: 58B tokens, 15.3M requests16 Oct: 51.8B tokens, 13M requests17 Oct: 35.3B tokens, 10.1M requests18 Oct: 36.4B tokens, 10.4M requests19 Oct: 46.6B tokens, 13.2M requests20 Oct: 43.2B tokens, 14M requests21 Oct: 38.4B tokens, 12.3M requests22 Oct: 40.3B tokens, 13.7M requests23 Oct: 39B tokens, 14.8M requests24 Oct: 29.6B tokens, 12.7M requests25 Oct: 28.3B tokens, 11M requests26 Oct: 40.2B tokens, 13.5M requests27 Oct: 39.1B tokens, 12.6M requests28 Oct: 39.5B tokens, 13.2M requests29 Oct: 39.6B tokens, 13.2M requests30 Oct: 41.8B tokens, 14.1M requests31 Oct: 35.1B tokens, 11.6M requests1 Nov: 32.9B tokens, 11.3M requests2 Nov: 36.6B tokens, 12.6M requests3 Nov: 37.3B tokens, 12.7M requests4 Nov: 36.7B tokens, 12.1M requests5 Nov: 36.7B tokens, 12.2M requests6 Nov: 37.6B tokens, 11.5M requests7 Nov: 34.7B tokens, 9.6M requests8 Nov: 33.2B tokens, 9.3M requests9 Nov: 40.4B tokens, 12M requests10 Nov: 40.4B tokens, 14.3M requests19 Sept3 Oct17 Oct31 Oct10 NovSee where it ranks on the leaderboard →

MODEL FIELD GUIDE / SOURCE EVIDENCE

What you can do with Gemini 2.5 Flash.

Listed specifications; no reviewed EDNA task evaluation yet. Sources checked 2026-11-07. Hosting routes and app features can differ.

DeveloperGoogle
Exact model identifiergoogle/gemini-2.5-flash
Inputfile, image, text, audio, video
Outputtext
Tool calling
Listed support
Structured output
Listed support
Reasoning controls
Listed support
Availability
available
Price basis
token
Licence verification
Check the developer licence; the model name is insufficient
Context length
1M tokens
Knowledge cutoff
31 Jan 2025
Developer release date
Not established
First seen in the catalogue
17 Jun 2025
Listed retirement date
Not established
Inspect the sources and their scope
catalogue source ↗

google/gemini-2.5-flash: listed route capabilities, availability and prices; provider endpoints can differ.

Checked 2026-11-07
openrouter.ai ↗

Source for reasoning controls, first seen, tool calling, context length, input, knowledge cutoff, output, structured output.

Checked 2026-11-07
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Price date: 10 Nov 2026, from OpenRouter models API. Prices are USD API token rates. Your app subscription, uploads, browsing and tools are separate.

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