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Gemini 2.5 Flash: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

Gemini 2.5 Flash is a language model from Google, released in May 2025, with multimodal input.

A thinking model designed for a balance between price and performance. It builds upon Gemini 2.0 Flash with upgraded reasoning, hybrid thinking control, multimodal capabilities (text, image, video, audio input), and a 1M token input

Input
TextImage
Output
Text

Gemini 2.5 Flash benchmarks

Capability tiers

Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.

Real tasks performance

High-confidence performance for Gemini 2.5 Flash across real-world prompt categories. Only 95% intervals at most 4 points wide are shown.

Performance by conversation depth

How Gemini 2.5 Flash holds up as conversations get longer.

Quality Tracker

Gemini 2.5 Flash Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

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Gemini 2.5 Flash pricing

Providers

Gemini 2.5 Flash starts at $0.300 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens via Google.

ProviderInput $/MCached input $/MOutput $/MContext in / outTTFT p95 sOutput p5 c/sModalities in / out
Google logoGoogle
$0.300$2.501.0M/65.5K
0.70
/

Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.

Gemini 2.5 Flash context window

Input and output token limits for Gemini 2.5 Flash, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

InputOutput
1.0Mtokens
66Ktokens
1.6k pages of text
1.0M
8K128K1M

Gemini 2.5 Flash API

Available from the model provider

Gemini 2.5 Flash has an official provider API. It is not currently routed through the LLM Stats gateway.

Read the official API documentation

Gemini 2.5 Flash latency

Gemini 2.5 Flash time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.

Gemini 2.5 Flash examples

Recent arena outputs from Gemini 2.5 Flash, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

Gemini 2.5 Flash license

Gemini 2.5 Flash is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms, has a knowledge cutoff of January 2025.

License
Proprietary
Hosted access
Knowledge cutoff
January 2025

Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply

Gemini 2.5 Flash resources

Official sources for Gemini 2.5 Flash: api documentation, official playground, official launch post.

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to Gemini 2.5 Flash are LongCat-Flash-Thinking, Nemotron Nano 9B v2, LongCat-Flash-Chat. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.

Models like Gemini 2.5 Flash

Models ranked just above and below Gemini 2.5 Flash by LLM Stats score.

 

LongCat-Flash-Thinking

Score pending
 

Nemotron Nano 9B v2

Score pending
 

LongCat-Flash-Chat

Score pending
 

Qwen3 30B A3B

Score pending
 

Sarvam-105B

Score pending
 

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Score pending

FAQ

Common questions about Gemini 2.5 Flash.

When was Gemini 2.5 Flash released?

Gemini 2.5 Flash was released on May 20, 2025 by Google. This is the official Gemini 2.5 Flash release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How much does Gemini 2.5 Flash cost?

Gemini 2.5 Flash pricing starts at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens via Google, the lowest price among tracked providers.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash available via API?

Yes, Gemini 2.5 Flash is available via API. See the official documentation for authentication and endpoint details. It is served by 1 provider tracked on LLM Stats.

Who created Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Gemini 2.5 Flash was created by Google.

What is the license for Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is released under the Proprietary license.

What is the knowledge cutoff date for Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Gemini 2.5 Flash has a knowledge cutoff of January 2025, meaning it was trained on data up to that point and may not know about events after it.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash multimodal?

Yes, Gemini 2.5 Flash is multimodal and can accept both text and images as input.

What is Gemini 2.5 Flash latency?

Gemini 2.5 Flash p95 time to first token is 0.70 seconds via Google over the trailing 7 days. Lower time to first token means the model begins responding sooner for chat, agents and API workloads.

Where can I use Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is available through 1 provider including Google.

Where is the Gemini 2.5 Flash paper or technical report?

Gemini 2.5 Flash has a paper or technical report available at https://developers.googleblog.com/en/start-building-with-gemini-25-flash/. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare Gemini 2.5 Flash against?

Common Gemini 2.5 Flash comparisons include Gemini 2.5 Flash vs LongCat-Flash-Thinking, Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Nemotron Nano 9B v2, Gemini 2.5 Flash vs LongCat-Flash-Chat. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and API availability.