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title: "Gemini 2.5 Flash — LLM-TEST.com"
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summary: "The prior-generation fast tier, balancing speed and cost with full multimodal input. A solid default for production workloads that don't need the newest model."
last_updated: "2026-11-05"
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# Gemini 2.5 Flash

_Google · Fast_

The prior-generation fast tier, balancing speed and cost with full multimodal input. A solid default for production workloads that don't need the newest model.

## At a glance

- Released: Apr 17, 2025
- Provider: Google
- Context window: 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output: 64,000 tokens
- Modalities: Text + image + audio + video → text
- Knowledge cutoff: January 2025
- API model ID: `gemini-2.5-flash`
- License: Proprietary (API only)

## Pricing

- Standard: $0.30 input / $2.50 output per 1M tokens
- Example: a 1,500-token prompt + 650-token answer ≈ $0.002 (standard)

## Best use cases

- **Production chat** — Serves responsive assistants at scale with predictable cost.
- **Summarization** — Condenses long documents and transcripts quickly.
- **Routing** — Acts as a fast first-pass model in multi-model pipelines.

## Strengths

- Fast and affordable
- Million-token context
- Full multimodal input

## Limitations

- Less capable than 3.x Flash tiers
- Older cutoff

## Where to get access

- Consumer app: Gemini app (web, Android, iOS) — https://gemini.google.com
- API: Google AI Studio — https://aistudio.google.com
- Also available: Google Vertex AI
- Docs: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs

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