Gemini 2.5 Flash
- In Input modalities: TextImageAudioVideo Out Output modalities: Text
- Reasoning· low, medium, high
- Reasoning can be off
- Tool use
- Structured output
Prices
2 offerings · prices as listed Gemini API (opens in a new tab)
gemini-2.5-flash| Conditions/ 1M tokens | Input | Cache read | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | — | — | $2.50 |
| Text tokens Standard | $0.30 | $0.030 | — |
| Image tokens | $0.30 | $0.030 | — |
| Audio tokens | $1.00 | $0.10 | — |
| Video tokens | $0.30 | $0.030 | — |
| Flex tier | — | — | $1.25 |
| Priority tier | — | — | $4.50 |
| Batch | — | — | $1.25 |
| Text tokensFlex tier | $0.15 | $0.030 | — |
| Text tokensPriority tier | $0.54 | $0.054 | — |
| Text tokensBatch | $0.15 | $0.030 | — |
| Image tokensFlex tier | $0.15 | $0.030 | — |
| Image tokensPriority tier | $0.54 | $0.054 | — |
| Image tokensBatch | $0.15 | $0.030 | — |
| Audio tokensFlex tier | $0.50 | $0.10 | — |
| Audio tokensPriority tier | $1.80 | $0.18 | — |
| Audio tokensBatch | $0.50 | $0.10 | — |
| Video tokensFlex tier | $0.15 | $0.030 | — |
| Video tokensPriority tier | $0.54 | $0.054 | — |
| Video tokensBatch | $0.15 | $0.030 | — |
Prices from Gemini API pricing (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 8, 2026)
Standard: the price a request with no conditions pays (the headline price elsewhere on the site).
Details
- Knowledge cutoff
- Jan 2025
- Open weights
- —
- Family
- gemini-flash
- Model ID
Not stated on Google’s pages: max thinking budget, aliases.
Cited scores
From third-party leaderboards, not measured by us- LMArena Text 1,409
#94 of 163 listed models · CI 1,407–1,412 · 124,962 votes
- LMArena Text · Chinese 1,438
#93 of 161 listed models · CI 1,431–1,445 · 9,094 votes
- LMArena Text · Coding 1,424
#117 of 163 listed models · CI 1,419–1,428 · 26,272 votes
- LMArena Text · Creative writing 1,394
#74 of 163 listed models · CI 1,389–1,399 · 17,548 votes
- LMArena (Arena), leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face, licensed CC BY 4.0 · License · as of Nov 8, 2026
- changes we made
News
All news →- Nov 2, 2026Retirement Google deprecates Gemini 2.5 Flash Gemini 2.5 Flash is deprecated and can no longer be selected in Google AI Studio. Starting December 1, 2026, API requests will route to Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and use its rates.
- Sep 18, 2026Other Google limits access to Gemini 2.5 models Google is limiting Gemini 2.5 API access to users who have actively used those models. They are not deprecated and remain available until further notice. New projects should use 3.5 Flash-Lite or 3.8 Flash.
Changes
All changes →- Available → Deprecated
- Deprecated → Retired on Google Cloud Vertex AI
- Available → Deprecated on Google Cloud Vertex AI
- Context window 1M → 1.05M
Sources
- Gemini API pricing (opens in a new tab) ai.google.dev · checked Nov 8, 2026
- Gemini 2.5 Flash model (opens in a new tab) ai.google.dev · checked Nov 8, 2026
- Gemini API changelog (opens in a new tab) ai.google.dev · checked Nov 8, 2026
- Gemini thinking - generateContent API | Google AI for Developers (opens in a new tab) ai.google.dev · checked Nov 9, 2026
- Gemini thinking - Interactions API | Google AI for Developers (opens in a new tab) ai.google.dev · checked Nov 8, 2026
- Vertex AI generative AI pricing (opens in a new tab) cloud.google.com · checked Nov 5, 2026
- Vertex AI: model versions and lifecycle (opens in a new tab) docs.cloud.google.com · checked Nov 5, 2026
- Gemini API deprecations (opens in a new tab) ai.google.dev · checked Nov 4, 2026
Google’s official policies: data use, privacy, terms →
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