Google: Gemini-2.0-Flash-Lite
Gemini-2.0-Flash-Lite is a language model from Google released on Feb 5, 2025. It reads text, images, audio and video and writes text, with a 990K token context window and up to 8K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.052 per million input tokens and $0.21 per million output tokens.
It supports tool calling.
3 providers serve it, including Poe, 302.AI and Qiniu.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.052 / $0.21 per 1M
- Context
- 990K
- Max output
- 8K
- Released
- Feb 5, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Gemini-2.0-Flash-Lite pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0.052 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $0.21 / 1M tokens |
Gemini-2.0-Flash-Lite providers
3 providers serve it, including Poe, 302.AI and Qiniu. Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.
| Provider | Input /M | Output /M | Cache read /M | Context | Max output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poe | $0.052 | $0.21 | – | 990K | 8K |
| 302.AI | $0.075 | $0.30 | – | 2M | 8K |
| Qiniu | n/a | n/a | – | 1.05M | 8K |
What Gemini-2.0-Flash-Lite costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Gemini-2.0-Flash-Lite through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
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Gemini-2.0-Flash-Lite questions
How much does the Gemini-2.0-Flash-Lite API cost?
$0.052 per million input tokens and $0.21 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Gemini-2.0-Flash-Lite?
990,000 tokens of input, and it can write up to 8,192 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve Gemini-2.0-Flash-Lite?
3 providers serve it, including Poe, 302.AI and Qiniu. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
Does Gemini-2.0-Flash-Lite support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is Gemini-2.0-Flash-Lite open source?
No. Google serves it through an API only, so you cannot download the weights or host it yourself.
When was Gemini-2.0-Flash-Lite released?
Feb 5, 2025.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Gemini-2.0-Flash-Lite?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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