Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite pricing and routing profile
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite from Google lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens, with a 1,048,576-token context window. Prices from OpenRouter's catalogue on 2026-09-28.
Tool callingStructured outputReasoning control
Cost per 1,000 requests
| Request shape | List cost |
|---|---|
| Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out) | $0.064 |
| Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out) | $0.36 |
| Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out) | $1.00 |
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Can Gimbix route to it first?
Not as a first-answer model through OpenRouter: no host returns token log probabilities for Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite. It can still be the model Gimbix falls back to when a cheaper model is unsure.
Cheaper models that can answer first
Models priced below Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite that expose a confidence signal. Whether they answer your traffic as well is what a Gimbix pilot measures.
| Model | Input / output per 1M | Cheaper on a chat reply |
|---|---|---|
| Gemma 4 31B | $0.09 / $0.34 | 12% |
| Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 | $0.0875 / $0.35 | 13% |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | $0.0938 / $0.25 | 20% |
| GLM 4.7 Flash | $0.0605 / $0.40 | 22% |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | $0.07 / $0.28 | 30% |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | $0.08 / $0.20 | 33% |
Questions
How much does Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite cost?
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens on OpenRouter as of 2026-09-28. A typical chat reply of 2,000 input and 400 output tokens costs about $0.36 per 1,000 requests.
What is the context window of Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite?
1,048,576 tokens.
Can a cheaper model replace Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite?
Sometimes. Gimbix proves it on your own traffic before routing: the cheaper model must match Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite on one half of your requests and make at most three answers worse on the other.