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 sooner mannequin in early entry, often known as Gemini 2.5 Flash. Now the agency has an replace on these two fashions and is launching a fair sooner mannequin in preview.
It might be onerous to maintain monitor 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 known as Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and is claimed to have the bottom latency and value within the household. In accordance with Google, this mannequin is finest 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 by its ideas earlier than responding for higher accuracy. Not like the opposite two fashions, Google says “considering” is turned off by default on Flash-Lite since price and pace are the main target. Nonetheless, the mannequin “permits for dynamic management of the considering funds with an API parameter.”
In the meantime, the Mountain View-based agency is now making Gemini 2.5 Professional and Flash steady and usually obtainable. Together with going steady, Google says it’s updating the pricing for Flash. The associated fee for enter goes up by $0.15, whereas the output price has been lowered from $3.50 to $2.50.
You possibly can proceed utilizing the prevailing pricing scheme for two.5 Flash Preview or 2.5 Professional Preview till the depreciation date. For two.5 Professional Preview, the depreciation date can be June 19, 2025. You’ll have till July 15, 2025, earlier than Google shuts down 2.5 Flash Preview.
