Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

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...

by Google

Overview

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Score

23%

274 benchmarks

Avg Latency

5.9s

753 requests

Pricing

$0.10 in / $0.40 out

per 1M tokens

Context

1049K

tokens

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Get started with this model using OpenRouter

import { OpenRouter } from "@openrouter/sdk";

const openrouter = new OpenRouter({
  apiKey: "<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>"
});

const completion = await openrouter.chat.completions.create({
  model: "google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite",
  messages: [
    {
      role: "user",
      content: "Hello!"
    }
  ]
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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