Google Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite is Here, But What Can It Do?

Google rolled out two stable updates, Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemini 2.5 Pro, and introduced a preview build of Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite. With this, developers and enterprises can deploy Flash and Pro versions into their production.

Meanwhile, Flash Lite is live for preview and claims to be the most affordable and quickest 2.5 family member. Google says the model is well suited to high-volume, latency-sensitive tasks like translation and classification.

Google tested Flash and Pro in production with partners such as Spline, Rooms, Snap, and SmartBear. Now that these models have completed their test runs, the company labeled them stable and generally available.

Flash Lite exceeds Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite on benchmarks covering coding, math, science, reasoning, and multimodal inputs. It shows faster response times than both Gemini 2.0 Flash and 2.0 Flash Lite. It provides the same toolkit integration—Search, code execution, multimodal input—and supports a 1 million token context window.

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Pricing and Availability Details

Google released pricing details, too. Flash now costs $0.30 per million input tokens, up from $0.15; output drops from $3.50 to $2.50 per million. The dual tier for “thinking” versus “non-thinking” models is gone. Flash Lite, by contrast, is cheaper and optimized for speed; it turns thinking off by default.

You can access these models in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, while Gemini app users get Flash and Pro too. Flash Lite is available in preview via those platforms and custom search experiences.

With this update, developers now have three distinct models: Pro for heavy reasoning and coding; Flash for general tasks with solid balance; and Flash Lite for cost and speed critical workloads. Google urged users to try Flash Lite in preview and provide feedback.

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