Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google DeepMind · 2025
Google's fast and efficient multimodal model for high-volume, low-latency applications.
Quick Facts
Parameters
Undisclosed (lightweight)
Context Window
1M tokens
Modalities
text, image, audio, video, code
Open Source
No
Pricing
Free tier / API from $0.15/1M tokens
Released
2025
Developer
Google DeepMind
About
Gemini 2.5 Flash is Google's lightweight multimodal model designed for speed and efficiency while maintaining strong performance. It processes text, images, audio, and video inputs with significantly lower latency than Pro models, making it ideal for real-time applications and high-volume use cases. Despite its smaller size, Gemini 2.5 Flash delivers impressive results on reasoning, coding, and analysis tasks. It features a 1M token context window matching its Pro counterpart, and is available at a fraction of the cost, making it the most cost-effective model in the Gemini family.
Strengths
- +Fastest response times in Gemini family
- +1M token context window at low cost
- +Full multimodal support (text, image, audio, video)
- +Most cost-effective model for high volume use
Weaknesses
- −Lower quality than Pro on complex tasks
- −Less capable at creative writing
- −May struggle with highly specialized domains
Best For
High-throughput real-time applications
Cost-sensitive multimodal processing
Processing large volumes of short content
Applications requiring fast response times
Pricing
Free
$0
- Gemini 2.5 Flash
- Google Search
- File uploads
API
From $0.15/1M input tokens
- Pay-as-you-go
- 1M token context
- Multimodal input
Technical Specs
Parameters
Undisclosed (lightweight)
Context Window
1M tokens
Modalities
text, image, audio, video, code
Languages
Open Source
No
Developer
Google DeepMind
Released: 2025
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