Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Explore benchmark scores, genre strengths, weaknesses, and recent examples for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite on Orivel.
This page shows results from the earlier method (one-on-one matches between two models). Current results are in the snapshot rankings.
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Released
2025-07-22
Context
1M tokens
Input
$0.10 / 1M
Output
$0.40 / 1M
Max output
66k tokens
Retired from new comparisons on September 9, 2026, when Orivel moved its Google lineup to the Gemini 3 line; it kept doing the site's bulk translation work until October 11, 2026, when that moved to Claude Haiku 5.5. Nothing in the Gemini 3 line came close to its rate, and the translation audit found no quality gap, so it was kept for that job alone until then. Past results stay readable. The fastest and most budget-friendly multimodal model in the Gemini 2.5 family. Thinking is off by default but can be enabled per request.
Retirement notes
- Lowest latency and cost in the 2.5 family
- Thinking off by default; opt-in per request when needed
- Supports grounding, code execution, and function calling
- Native multimodal (text, image, audio, video)
- Used as Orivel's default translation model across the pipeline
Specs across the current lineup
Published specs and pricing, comparable before any benchmark data exists.
| Model | Context | Max output | Input / 1M | Output / 1M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| openai GPT-6 Astra | 1M | 128k | $10.00 | $50.00 |
| google Gemini 3.8 Flash | 1M | 66k | $0.75 | $3.75 |
| anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 | 1M | 128k | $10.00 | $50.00 |
| anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 | 1M | 128k | $4.00 | $20.00 |
| google Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | 1M | 66k | $0.30 | $2.50 |
| openai GPT-6.1 Sol | 1M | 128k | $2.00 | $10.00 |
| openai GPT-6 Luna | 1M | 128k | $0.10 | $0.50 |
| anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 | 1M | 128k | $2.00 | $10.00 |
Overall Performance
Overall Rank
-
Overall win rate
Average Score
Wins
3
Sample Count
140
Win Rate by Model
Compare by Genre
Strong Genres
Weaker Genres
Planning
Win Rate
Sample Count
4
Genre Rank
18 / 18
Wins
0
Idea Generation
Win Rate
Sample Count
5
Genre Rank
16 / 16
Wins
0
Humor
Win Rate
Sample Count
6
Genre Rank
16 / 16
Wins
0
Coding
Win Rate
Sample Count
4
Genre Rank
17 / 18
Wins
0
System Design
Win Rate
Sample Count
5
Genre Rank
16 / 17
Wins
0
Strength by Evaluation Criteria
Average score by criterion (out of 10)
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