Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite API Pricing
Google · released Jun 17, 2025 · 1.05M context · API model ID gemini-2.5-flash-lite
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite by Google API pricing: $0.10 per 1M input tokens and $0.40 per 1M output tokens (verified against the official pricing page, Oct 9, 2026).
Prices
| Price | USD per 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.10 |
| Output | $0.40 |
| Cache read | $0.01 |
| Cache write | Not published |
| Batch input | $0.05 |
| Batch output | $0.20 |
| Audio input | $0.30 |
Verified against the provider's official pricing page on Oct 9, 2026. Official pricing page Long-context and separately billed token prices, where shown, are list prices compiled by models.dev (checked Oct 10, 2026, 09:00 UTC).
Estimated monthly cost
$90.00
per month
- per day
- $3.00
- per request
- $0.0003
Cannot estimate: a needed price is not published.
Cost = input tokens × input price + output tokens × output price, 30 days a month. Cached input uses the cache read price. Cache write fees are not included.
Monthly cost by workload
| Workload | Per month |
|---|---|
| Chatbot1,000 in / 500 out tokens, 10,000 requests a day | $90.00/mo |
| RAG8,000 in / 500 out tokens, 5,000 requests a day | $150.00/mo |
| Coding agent50,000 in / 2,000 out tokens, 1,000 requests a day, 80% cached input | $66.00/mo |
Context and capabilities
- Context
- 1,048,576 tokens
- Max output
- 65,536 tokens
- Input
- text, image, audio, video, pdf
- Output
- text
- Knowledge cutoff
- January 2025
- Open weights
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Structured outputs
- Yes
Capabilities and limits as listed by models.dev.
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Price history
No price changes since we started tracking on Oct 8, 2026.
Questions
- How much does Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite cost per month?
- For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite costs about $90.00 per month at the provider's official prices (verified) ($0.10 per 1M input tokens, $0.40 per 1M output tokens).
- Does Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite support prompt caching?
- Yes. Cached input costs $0.01 per 1M tokens, compared with $0.10 for regular input.
- How long is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite's context window?
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts up to 1,048,576 tokens (1.05M) of context and returns up to 65,536 tokens per response.
- Does Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite have a batch price?
- Yes. Asynchronous batch requests cost $0.05 per 1M input tokens and $0.20 per 1M output tokens.