Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite API price, and what each result really costs
Google, listed 22 Jul 2025. Price checked 12 Nov 2026; unchanged since we started tracking it. Source: Google's pricing page. google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
List price per million tokens
- Input
- $0.10
- Cached input
- $0.01
- Output
- $0.40
- Context window
- 1.05M tokens
Note: Cheapest Gemini text model; Google says it is not deprecated. Audio input $0.30.
What it costs per task, and per task that works
Six common task shapes with typical token counts. The real cost counts the tries that get redone; the rates are examples, not measurements.
| Task | Per 1,000 tries | Per 1,000 that work, 8 in 10 | Per 1,000 that work, 6 in 10 | Per 1,000 that work, 4 in 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support bot answer3,000 in / 300 out | $0.42 | $0.52 | $0.70 | $1.05 |
| Invoice field extraction2,500 in / 250 out | $0.35 | $0.44 | $0.58 | $0.87 |
| Lead scoring1,200 in / 100 out | $0.16 | $0.20 | $0.27 | $0.40 |
| Email reply draft1,500 in / 400 out | $0.31 | $0.39 | $0.52 | $0.77 |
| Translation900 in / 800 out | $0.41 | $0.51 | $0.68 | $1.03 |
| Search re-ranking4,000 in / 50 out | $0.42 | $0.52 | $0.70 | $1.05 |
Work out your own real cost per resultTest Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite on your own prompt
Compare Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite with
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite$0.25 in / $1.50 outSwitch cost
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite$0.30 in / $2.50 outSwitch cost
- GPT-6 Luna$0.10 in / $0.50 outSwitch cost
- Claude Haiku 5.5$0.10 in / $0.50 outSwitch cost
- Llama 4 Scout$0.10 in / $0.30 outSwitch cost
Questions
How much does the Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite API cost?
$0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens, or $0.01 per million for cached input. Price checked 12 Nov 2026; unchanged since we started tracking it.
What does a result that works really cost with Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?
A support bot answer (about 3,000 tokens in, 300 out) costs $0.00042 per try. If 6 in 10 work first time, each answer that works really costs $0.0007, because the redone ones were paid for too.