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GoogleGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite API pricing

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite costs $0.10 per 1M input tokens and $0.40 per 1M output tokens on Google's API, since .

Current price

Rates in effect from a price change first seen between and . Every price links to its source.

Input
$0.10
Output
$0.40
Blended 3:1
$0.175
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite current rates per 1M tokens
RatePer 1M tokens
Standard
Input$0.10
Cached input$0.01
Output$0.40
Batch
Input$0.05
Cached input$0.01
Output$0.20

Launch price

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite launched at this price on .

Input
$0.10
Output
$0.40
Blended 3:1
$0.175

Price history

InputOutput
$0$0.10$0.20$0.30$0.40Oct 2025Jan 2026Apr 2026Jul 2026Oct 2026 Input $0.10, from July 22, 2025Output $0.40, from July 22, 2025Output $0.40Input $0.10 $0$0.10$0.20$0.30$0.40Jan 2026Jul 2026 Input $0.10, from July 22, 2025Output $0.40, from July 22, 2025Output $0.40Input $0.10
Headline standard prices per 1M tokens. A filled circle marks a dated change; an open circle, a change first seen between two captures.

Every price event

2 verified events, newest first. 1 price move. Documented since .

  1. Price change · first seen between and

    Rates from first seen between October 24, 2025 and October 26, 2025
    RatePer 1M tokens
    Standard
    Input$0.10
    Cached input$0.01
    Output$0.40
    Batch
    Input$0.05
    Cached input$0.01
    Output$0.20

    Cached input fell from $0.025 to $0.01 (10% of the input price), about two weeks after the same cut for 2.5 Pro and 2.5 Flash. No official announcement dates this cache price cut; the date is bounded by captures of the docs pricing page. Batch prices were already listed in capture 20250926115107 ($0.05 / $0.20).

    • Price: Archived page (ai.google.dev, captured October 26, 2025)
      quote
      Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite gemini-2.5-flash-lite ... Standard Input price (text, image, video) | ... $0.10 (text / image / video) ... Output price (including thinking tokens) | ... $0.40 | Context caching price | ... $0.01 (text / image / video) ... Batch Input price (text, image, video) | ... $0.05 (text / image / video) ... Output price (including thinking tokens) | ... $0.20 | Context caching price | ... $0.01 (text / image / video)
    • Price: Pricing page (ai.google.dev)
      quote
      Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite gemini-2.5-flash-lite ... Standard ... $0.10 (text / image / video) ... $0.40 ... Context caching price ... $0.01 (text / image / video) ... Batch ... $0.05 (text / image / video) ... $0.20
    • Date: Archived page (ai.google.dev, captured October 24, 2025)
      quote
      Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite ... Context caching price | ... $0.025 (text / image / video)
    • Date: Archived page (ai.google.dev, captured October 26, 2025)
      quote
      Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite ... Context caching price | ... $0.01 (text / image / video)

  2. Launch price ·

    Rates from July 22, 2025
    RatePer 1M tokens
    Input$0.10
    Cached input$0.025
    Output$0.40

    Batch mode launched on 2025-07-07 at '50% less than the standard rate' (developers blog), but the pricing page only listed per-model batch prices from some time between captures 20250723074118 and 20250926115107.

Gaps in this history

Batch prices from the 2025-07-22 launch until they were listed per model (by 2025-09-26) aren't documented. No official date for the October 2025 cache price cut. Flex and Priority tiers (from 2026-04-01) are out of scope.

API ids

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