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Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash Go Live as Cost-Efficient Flash-Lite Debuts in Preview

Developers nationwide can tap into stable hybrid reasoning models for a range of applications with early access to a low-latency, cost-efficient Flash-Lite preview.

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Overview

  • Google has made Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash models generally available across free and paid tiers with stable versions replacing previews.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is available in preview on Google AI Studio, Vertex AI and Google Search.
  • Google updated pricing for the stable Flash model to $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens with a single rate regardless of thinking mode.
  • The Gemini 2.5 family offers hybrid reasoning with configurable thinking budgets, supports multimodal inputs and provides a 1 million-token context window.
  • Organizations such as Snap, SmartBear and Spline have already integrated Gemini 2.5 Pro into production workflows over the past weeks.