Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

This document provides an overview of Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, our most balanced Gemini model, optimized for low-latency use cases. Key features include:

  • Thinking at different budgets: Turn thinking on at different budgets.
  • Tool connectivity: Connect to tools like Grounding with Google Search and code execution.
  • Multimodal input: Process multimodal inputs.
  • Large context window: Features a 1 million-token context length.

For even more detailed technical information on Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (such as performance benchmarks, information on our training datasets, efforts on sustainability, intended usage and limitations, and our approach to ethics and safety), see our technical report on our Gemini 2.5 models.

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Model ID gemini-2.5-flash-lite
Supported inputs & outputs
  • Inputs:
    Text, Code, Images, Audio, Video
  • Outputs:
    Text
Token limits
  • Maximum input tokens: 1,048,576
  • Maximum output tokens: 65,536 (default)
Capabilities
Usage types
Input size limit 500 MB
Technical specifications
Images
  • Maximum images per prompt: 3,000
  • Maximum image size: 7 MB
  • Maximum number of output images per prompt: 10
  • Supported MIME types:
    image/png, image/jpeg, image/webp
Documents
  • Maximum number of files per prompt: 3,000
  • Maximum number of pages per file: 1,000
  • Maximum file size per file: 50 MB
  • Supported MIME types:
    application/pdf, text/plain
Video
  • Maximum video length (with audio): Approximately 45 minutes
  • Maximum video length (without audio): Approximately 1 hour
  • Maximum number of videos per prompt: 10
  • Supported MIME types:
    video/x-flv, video/quicktime, video/mpeg, video/mpegs, video/mpg, video/mp4, video/webm, video/wmv, video/3gpp
Audio
  • Maximum audio length per prompt: Appropximately 8.4 hours, or up to 1 million tokens
  • Maximum number of audio files per prompt: 1
  • Supported MIME types:
    audio/x-aac, audio/flac, audio/mp3, audio/m4a, audio/mpeg, audio/mpga, audio/mp4, audio/opus, audio/pcm, audio/wav, audio/webm
Parameter defaults
  • Temperature: 0.0-2.0 (default 1.0)
  • topP: 0.0-1.0 (default 0.95)
  • topK: 64 (fixed)
  • candidateCount: 1–8 (default 1)
Supported regions

Model availability
  • Global
    • global
  • United States
    • us-central1
    • us-east1
    • us-east4
    • us-east5
    • us-south1
    • us-west1
    • us-west4
  • Europe
    • europe-central2
    • europe-north1
    • europe-southwest1
    • europe-west1
    • europe-west4
    • europe-west8
    • europe-west9

ML processing
  • United States
    • Multi-region
  • Europe
    • Multi-region
See Data residency for more information.
Knowledge cutoff date January 2025
Versions
  • gemini-2.5-flash-lite
    • Launch stage: GA
    • Release date: July 22, 2025
    • Discontinuation date: July 22, 2026
  • gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17
    • Launch stage: Public preview
    • Release date: June 17, 2025
    • Discontinuation date: August 21, 2025
Security controls
See Security controls for more information.
Pricing See Pricing.