gemini-2.5-flash-lite pricing

gemini-2.5-flash-lite is priced at $0.05 per 1M input tokens and $0.15 per 1M output tokens, with roughly 80 ms to first token and about 180 tokens/sec output throughput.

Price per 1M tokens

Input $0.05 · Output $0.15 · Output/input ratio 3.0x.

1M input + 1M output tokens: $0.20
10M input + 2M output tokens/month: $0.80
100M input + 20M output tokens/month: $8.00

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