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gemini-2.5-flash
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Text generationVision inputStandard generationStreaming35% below list
What you pay
Current catalog rates.
Input / 1M tokens$0.30 list$0.195
Output / 1M tokens$2.50 list$1.625
Cached input / 1M tokens$0.03 list$0.0195
Current discount35%
Observed reliability
99.12
Successful provider-reaching requests
Output speed
185.6
Median tokens per second over sustained generations
TTFT
3.4 s
p50 · p90 7.9 s · n 62
Latency
7.8 s
p50 · p90 47.8 s · n 784
Evidence strength
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At a glance
- Provider
- Model ID
- gemini-2.5-flash
- Type
- Text generation
- Endpoints
- /v1/chat/completions, /v1/responses, /v1/messages
- Input
- image, pdf, text
- Output
- text
- Vision input
- Supported
- Image editing
- Not supported
- Video input
- Not supported
- Reasoning
- Not supported
- Streaming
- Supported
- Context window
- 1,048,576 tokens
Parameters by endpoint
The request field of each parameter on each endpoint, and the values it takes.
POST /v1/chat/completions
| Field | Values |
|---|---|
| reasoning.exclude | |
| max_tokens | |
| reasoning | effort: none, low, medium, high; max_tokens: 1024 to max output tokens; enabled: true or false |
| response_format | |
| stop | |
| temperature | |
| tool_choice | |
| tools |
POST /v1/messages
| Field | Values |
|---|---|
| max_tokens | |
| thinking |
Pricing history
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Time zone
gemini-2.5-flash
High confidenceThis model averaged 33.9% below comparable direct provider prices across the selected range. Its strongest observed window was 7:00 PM–8:00 AM in UTC.
Last 7 days
Average saved
33.9%
Last 7 days
Cheapest time
7:00 PM–8:00 AM
34.8% average savings
Hourly coverage
24/24
166 total observations
Signal quality
High
Ready for planning
Typical unit savings$0.10 / 1M input tokens$0.85 / 1M output tokens
When this model is cheapest
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Last 24 hours
#67
of 409 ranked models
Last 7 days
#80
of 420 ranked models
Last 30 days
#60
of 420 ranked models
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