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
Models
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Added 10 July 2026
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-liteDocs
OpenRouter id: google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
Benchmarks
- Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis): 10.4 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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