Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 06-17

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 06-17 demonstrates strong overall performance, particularly excelling in speed and reliability. It consistently performs among the fastest models, ranking in the 77th percentile for speed across various benchmarks. The model also offers competitive pricing, placing in the 66th percentile for cost-effectiveness. Notably, its reliability is exceptional, achieving a perfect 100th percentile, indicating a highly stable and dependable service with minimal technical failures. In terms of benchmark performance, Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite shows particular strength in classification and knowledge-based tasks, achieving 99.0% accuracy in Email Classification and 98.5% in General Knowledge. It also performs well in Ethics (99.0% accuracy) and Instruction Following (60.0% accuracy), demonstrating good precision and adherence to complex directives. While its Reasoning accuracy is solid at 68.0%, its performance in Coding (78.5% accuracy) is more moderate compared to other categories. The model's design prioritizes speed, with "thinking" disabled by default, which contributes to its rapid token generation and throughput, making it ideal for latency-sensitive applications. Developers can, however, enable multi-pass reasoning for tasks requiring higher intelligence at a trade-off in cost.