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| Attribute | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025 | Gemini 3.8 Flashgemini-3.8-flash |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Input | $0.05 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M |
| Output | $0.20 / 1M | $3.75 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $0.05 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $0.05 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $0.05 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | ||
| Max context | 1.0M | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | ||
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | ||
| Provider | ||
| Category | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — |
| Description | ||
| Summary | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is a lightweight, low-latency model focused on speed and cost efficiency. It generates tokens quickly and outperforms earlier Flash models on common benchmarks. “Thinking” (multi-pass reasoning) is off by default for maximum speed, but can be turned on through the Reasoning API when deeper reasoning is needed. | Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's most intelligent Flash-class model, delivering significant improvements over Gemini 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic workflows, and complex multi-step reasoning. Designed to combine strong capability with Flash-tier efficiency, it is well suited for coding assistants, autonomous agents, and high-throughput production workflows that require responsive performance without sacrificing reasoning quality. |