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title: "Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite — API access"
description: "Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite API pricing: official $0.10/$0.40 per 1M tokens, $0.05/$0.20 with the flat 50% apiToken.sale discount. The cheapest Gemini model."
url: "https://apitoken.sale/models/gemini-2-5-flash-lite"
language: "en"
---
# Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the cheapest Gemini model — built for massive-volume, latency-sensitive work like classification, extraction and routing.

- **Model ID:** `gemini-2.5-flash-lite`
- **Tier:** Flash-Lite
- **Context window:** 1M tokens
- **Max output:** 64K tokens
- **Official price (per 1M):** $0.1 input / $0.4 output
- **Your price (per 1M):** input $0.05, output $0.2 (flat 50% off)
- **Base URL:** `https://gemini.api.apitoken.sale` · **Endpoint:** `POST /v1beta/models/gemini-2.5-flash-lite:generateContent` (x-goog-api-key)

## Best for

- Classification, extraction and summarization at massive scale.
- Latency-sensitive chat and routing layers.
- Cheap pre-processing before a Flash or Pro call.

## Notes

- Cached input bills at 10% of input ($0.01 per 1M); caching is automatic on repeated prefixes.
- Pairs well with model routing: send bulk work to Flash-Lite, hard reasoning to 3.1 Pro Preview.

## Call it

```bash
curl https://gemini.api.apitoken.sale/v1beta/models/gemini-2.5-flash-lite:generateContent \
  -H "x-goog-api-key: $APITOKEN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"contents": [{"parts": [{"text": "Reply with exactly: connected"}]}]}'
```

## FAQ

**How much does the Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite API cost?**

Officially $0.10 per 1M input tokens and $0.40 per 1M output tokens, with cached input at $0.01. With the flat 50% apiToken.sale discount that is $0.05/$0.20 — the cheapest way to run Gemini.

**What is Flash-Lite good for?**

High-volume, low-latency work: classification, extraction, summarization, routing and simple chat. For complex reasoning, step up to 2.5 Flash or the Gemini 3 line.

**What is the model ID?**

gemini-2.5-flash-lite. It works on the same apiToken.sale key and balance as every other supported Claude, GPT and Gemini model.

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API reference: https://apitoken.sale/md/docs · All models: https://apitoken.sale/md/models