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Google DeepMind Opens Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash to All, Introduces Flash-Lite Preview

It brings a low-cost Flash-Lite preview alongside streamlined Flash pricing to accelerate scalable AI deployments.

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Overview

  • Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash reach general availability in stable releases, enabling production deployments.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite enters preview as a high-throughput, low-latency model with reasoning off by default to optimize cost and speed.
  • Pricing for Flash has been revised to $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens, with a single tier regardless of thinking mode.
  • All Gemini 2.5 models feature dynamic reasoning capabilities that enhance accuracy across coding, math, science and multimodal benchmarks.
  • Flash-Lite preview is accessible in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI and supports native tools such as Google Search grounding, code execution and URL context.