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Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

by Google

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is a lightweight reasoning model in the Gemini 2.5 family, optimized for ultra-low latency and cost efficiency. It offers improved throughput, faster token ge

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Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

Added 10 July 2026

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Overview

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is a lightweight reasoning model in the Gemini 2.5 family, optimized for ultra-low latency and cost efficiency. It offers improved throughput, faster token generation, and better performance...

Best for

Best for
Ultra-cheap bulk multimodal and extraction

Use cases

  • inbox triage
  • OCR pipelines
  • cheap RAG generation

How to use / API access

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

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

OpenRouter id: google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite

Benchmarks

  • Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis) : 11.4 index

Enterprise DNA angle

Use Flash-Lite as the Omni firehose worker; promote failures to Flash or Pro.

Notes

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

Pros

  • Aggressive price/performance for bulk jobs
  • Multimodal with large context

Cons

  • Weaker on hard reasoning than Pro/Flash
  • Closed model
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