Gemini 2.5 Flash

by Google

Zero data retentionRetiring
google/gemini-2.5-flash
Input
$0.42/1M tokens
Output
$3.50/1M tokens
Context
1Mtokens
Max output
66Ktokens
Knows to
January 2025
Released
17 Jun 2025

Scheduled for retirement on 20 Oct 2026. Requests to google/gemini-2.5-flash will stop working after that date; the comparisons below are a good place to pick a successor.

About

Gemini 2.5 Flash is Google's state-of-the-art workhorse model, specifically designed for advanced reasoning, coding, mathematics, and scientific tasks.

Pricing

Input$0.42per 1M prompt tokens
Output$3.50per 1M generated tokens, reasoning included
Cached input$0.04per 1M tokens read back from the prompt cache
Cache write$0.12per 1M tokens written to the prompt cache
Web search$0.020per request that uses the provider’s built-in search

What a request costs

Typical requestEachPer 1,000
Short chat reply1,500 in · 400 out$0.0020$2.03
Question over a long document40,000 in · 800 out$0.020$19.60
Agent tool step20,000 in · 1,200 out$0.013$12.60

At the developer-API rate, before any provider promotion or prompt-cache saving. In the app, the model picker shows what a message costs on your plan before you send it.

Benchmarks

Intelligence15.5#170 of 285

Head-to-head rankings

  1. #81SVGModel arenaElo 101843% wins
  2. #87Data vizModel arenaElo 113549% wins
  3. #95UI componentsModel arenaElo 109249% wins
  4. #993DModel arenaElo 107147% wins
  5. #100CodeModel arenaElo 110647% wins
  6. #100WebsitesModel arenaElo 111747% wins
  7. #103Game devModel arenaElo 106944% wins

Scores from Artificial Analysis; bars are scaled to the best model on our list. Rankings from Design Arena head-to-head votes. Published by OpenRouter alongside its catalogue.

Call it from code

OpenAI-compatible: point any OpenAI SDK at https://api.privateer.pro/v1 and set model. Keys are created in the app under Settings.

cURL
curl https://api.privateer.pro/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PRIVATEER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "google/gemini-2.5-flash",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello" }]
  }'
Python
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.privateer.pro/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["PRIVATEER_API_KEY"],
)
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="google/gemini-2.5-flash",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)
JavaScript
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://api.privateer.pro/v1",
  apiKey: process.env.PRIVATEER_API_KEY,
});
const reply = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "google/gemini-2.5-flash",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(reply.choices[0].message.content);

Parameters this model accepts

include_reasoningmax_tokensreasoningresponse_formatseedstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_p

API reference → · How API billing works →

Prices are USD at the developer-API rate, as of 16 Oct 2026, rebuilt daily from the providers’ live catalogues. ← All models