Google Releases Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Model

Google has announced the stable release of Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, the most cost-efficient and fastest model in the Gemini 2.5 series, offering enhanced performance for latency-sensitive tasks.

Google has released the stable version of Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, the latest addition to its Gemini 2.5 model family, announced on their website. This model is designed to be the most cost-efficient and fastest in the series, priced at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is optimized for latency-sensitive tasks such as translation and classification, offering lower latency than its predecessors, 2.0 Flash-Lite and 2.0 Flash. It also features a 1 million-token context window and supports native tools like Grounding with Google Search and Code Execution.

Several companies have already successfully deployed Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite. For instance, Satlyt has achieved a 45% reduction in latency for onboard diagnostics, while HeyGen uses the model to automate video planning and translation into over 180 languages. DocsHound and Evertune have also benefited from the model's speed and efficiency in processing and analysis tasks.

Users can start utilizing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite by specifying "gemini-2.5-flash-lite" in their code, with the preview alias set to be removed on August 25th.

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