Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) API Pricing
Google · context window 1M · prices updated 2026-08-23
Where Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) sits on price
At $0.2 per million output tokens, Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) is a budget tier model — 11.3× cheaper than the median output price of $2.25, which puts it in the cheapest 10% of everything we track. It sits 4th cheapest of the 37 Google models we track. Output costs 4.0× input, the usual spread — trim both, starting with the answer length.
Cached input is 80% cheaper. On an input-heavy workload you need roughly a 31% cache-hit rate to take 25% off the input line — reachable for chatbots and agents that resend the same system prompt and history.
What real workloads cost on Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)
These three workloads are the ones teams actually run on a budget-priced model — a $0.2/1M model is not bought for the same job as one ten times the price.
| Workload | Per request | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| High-volume classification — 200K requests/day (400 in / 20 out) Short output, huge volume: the input price dominates the bill. | $0 | $144 |
| Small app — 1K requests/day (500 in / 150 out) The baseline most side projects actually run at. | $0.0001 | $1.65 |
| Long-context analysis — 200 runs/day (250K in / 4K out) Only possible on large-context models; input cost is nearly the whole bill. | $0.0133 | $79.80 |
Model your exact traffic in the API cost calculator — it preloads Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) with caching and batch options.
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) price history
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)'s price has not moved since we began tracking it on Aug 6, 2026 — 17 days of stability in a market where 55 of the 302 models we track have repriced over the same period, including 3 of Google's own 37 models.
Change-points from our daily price snapshots (tracking since Aug 6, 2026; intraday moves between snapshots are not captured).
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
The closest-priced alternative from another vendor is Qwen2.5 7B Instruct (Alibaba (Qwen)) — priced within a rounding error on output, with $0.05 more per million input tokens. When two models land this close on price, the decision is quality on your own workload, not the price sheet: run 50 real requests through both and compare.
See Qwen2.5 7B Instruct pricing →Cheaper alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
› How much does the Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) API cost?
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) costs $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.2 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.01 per million (80% cheaper). That works out to roughly 5,000,000 output tokens per dollar.
› What does the high-volume classification workload cost on Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)?
High-volume classification — 200K requests/day (400 in / 20 out) costs about $0 per request and $144 per month on Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch). Short output, huge volume: the input price dominates the bill.
› What does it cost to fill Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)'s 1M context window?
Sending 1M of input in a single request costs $0.0524 at $0.05 per million tokens — before any output. With prompt caching that same fill drops to about $0.0105 on repeat requests. This is why large context windows are cheap to advertise and expensive to actually use.
› Is Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) worth the price?
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) is in the cheapest end of the market — cheaper than 93% of the models we track. At this price the question is not cost but capability: it is a good fit for classification, extraction, routing and bulk summarisation, and a poor fit for multi-step reasoning where a wrong answer costs more than the tokens saved.