22nd July 2025 - Link Blog
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now stable and generally available. The last remaining member of the Gemini 2.5 trio joins Pro and Flash in General Availability today.
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the cheapest of the 2.5 family, at $0.10/million input tokens and $0.40/million output tokens. This puts it equal to GPT-4.1 Nano on my llm-prices.com comparison table.
The preview version of that model had the same pricing for text tokens, but is now cheaper for audio:
We have also reduced audio input pricing by 40% from the preview launch.
I released llm-gemini 0.24 with support for the new model alias:
llm install -U llm-gemini
llm -m gemini-2.5-flash-lite \
-a https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2024/pelican-joke-request.mp3
I wrote more about the Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite preview model last month.
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