Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025

Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 is a lightweight reasoning model designed for ultra-low latency and cost efficiency. It performs among the fastest models, ranking in the 79th percentile for speed, and offers competitive pricing, placing in the 68th percentile. The model demonstrates exceptional reliability with a 99% success rate, indicating minimal technical failures. In terms of performance across benchmarks, Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite excels in several areas. It achieved perfect accuracy in Ethics, also being the most accurate model at its price point and among models of similar speed. Its General Knowledge is also a significant strength, scoring 99.5% accuracy and being the most accurate among models this fast. Email Classification also shows strong performance at 99.0% accuracy. While its Instruction Following is solid at 67.0% accuracy, its Hallucinations (88.0% accuracy) and Coding (80.0% accuracy) benchmarks indicate areas for potential improvement, particularly given its speed. Reasoning and Mathematics scores are moderate, suggesting that while "thinking" is disabled by default for speed, enabling it via the Reasoning API could enhance performance in these complex tasks.