Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 06-17

Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 06-17 demonstrates strong performance as a lightweight, cost-efficient reasoning model. It consistently ranks among the fastest models, placing in the 81st percentile across benchmarks, and offers competitive pricing, typically falling within the 66th percentile. Notably, the model exhibits exceptional reliability with a 100% success rate across all evaluated benchmarks, indicating minimal technical failures. In terms of specific performance, Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite excels in Email Classification (99.0% accuracy, 89th percentile) and General Knowledge (98.5% accuracy, 62nd percentile), showcasing its proficiency in structured data processing and broad factual recall. Its ability to handle hallucinations is also strong, with 94.0% accuracy. While its Instruction Following (60.0% accuracy, 64th percentile) and Ethics (99.0% accuracy, 59th percentile) are solid, areas like Mathematics (76.0% accuracy, 37th percentile) and Coding (78.5% accuracy, 40th percentile) present notable weaknesses, suggesting limitations in complex problem-solving within these domains when "thinking" is disabled. The model's core strength lies in its speed and cost-effectiveness for tasks where rapid, reliable responses are paramount, with the option to enable multi-pass reasoning for more complex challenges.