TL;DR
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is rolling out in preview.
- The steady variations of Gemini 2.5 Flash and Professional are additionally rolling out.
- The price of enter for Flash has gone up by $0.15, however the output has been lowered by $1.00.
Google launched Gemini 2.5 earlier this yr, with Professional (experimental) being the primary mannequin within the sequence. A few months later, the corporate rolled out a quicker mannequin in early entry, often called Gemini 2.5 Flash. Now the agency has an replace on these two fashions and is launching a good quicker mannequin in preview.
It could be onerous to maintain observe of all of the totally different Gemini fashions at this level, however Google is debuting a 3rd mannequin within the 2.5 line. This mannequin is referred to as Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and is mentioned to have the bottom latency and value within the household. Based on Google, this mannequin is greatest for “excessive throughput duties like classification or summarization at scale.”
Like Gemini 2.5 Professional and Flash, Flash-Lite is described as a reasoning mannequin. This implies it’s able to reasoning via its ideas earlier than responding for higher accuracy. In contrast to the opposite two fashions, Google says “pondering” is turned off by default on Flash-Lite since value and velocity are the main target. Nonetheless, the mannequin “permits for dynamic management of the pondering price range with an API parameter.”
In the meantime, the Mountain View-based agency is now making Gemini 2.5 Professional and Flash steady and typically out there. Together with going steady, Google says it’s updating the pricing for Flash. The fee for enter is going up by $0.15, whereas the output value has been lowered from $3.50 to $2.50.
You’ll be able to proceed utilizing the prevailing pricing scheme for 2.5 Flash Preview or 2.5 Professional Preview till the depreciation date. For 2.5 Professional Preview, the depreciation date will probably be June 19, 2025. You’ll have till July 15, 2025, earlier than Google shuts down 2.5 Flash Preview.
