Author's Description
Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview September 2025 Checkpoint is Google's state-of-the-art workhorse model, specifically designed for advanced reasoning, coding, mathematics, and scientific tasks. It includes built-in "thinking" capabilities, enabling it to provide responses with greater accuracy and nuanced context handling. Additionally, Gemini 2.5 Flash is configurable through the "max tokens for reasoning" parameter, as described in the documentation (https://openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/reasoning-tokens#max-tokens-for-reasoning).
Key Specifications
Supported Parameters
This model supports the following parameters:
Features
This model supports the following features:
Performance Summary
Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025 demonstrates strong overall performance, particularly excelling in speed, consistently ranking in the top tier (72nd percentile) across benchmarks. Its pricing is moderate, positioned at the 33rd percentile. A standout feature is its exceptional reliability, achieving a perfect 100% success rate, indicating minimal technical failures and consistent response delivery. The model exhibits significant strengths in specialized areas. It achieves perfect accuracy in both General Knowledge and Ethics, often being the most accurate model at its price point and speed. Its instruction following capabilities are highly proficient (90th percentile accuracy), and it performs very well in Mathematics (87th percentile accuracy) and Reasoning (81st percentile accuracy), aligning with its design for advanced tasks. Coding performance is solid at 66th percentile accuracy. A notable weakness is its performance in handling hallucinations, where it only achieved 88.0% accuracy, placing it in the 32nd percentile for appropriately acknowledging uncertainty. Despite this, its overall profile suggests a powerful tool for complex analytical and generative tasks.
Model Pricing
Current Pricing
| Feature | Price (per 1M tokens) |
|---|---|
| Prompt | $0.3 |
| Completion | $2.5 |
| Input Cache Read | $0.03 |
| Input Cache Write | $0.0833 |
| Internal Reasoning | $2.5 |
Price History
Available Endpoints
| Provider | Endpoint Name | Context Length | Pricing (Input) | Pricing (Output) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Google AI Studio
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Google AI Studio | google/gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-2025 | 1M | $0.3 / 1M tokens | $2.5 / 1M tokens |
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Google
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Google | google/gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-2025 | 1M | $0.3 / 1M tokens | $2.5 / 1M tokens |
Benchmark Results
| Benchmark | Category | Reasoning | Strategy | Free | Executions | Accuracy | Cost | Duration |
|---|
Other Models by google
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Released | Params | Context |
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Speed | Ability | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) | Jun 30, 2026 | — | 65K |
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— | — | $$$$ |
| Google: Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) | Jun 17, 2026 | — | 65K |
Image input
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★★★ | ★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) | Jun 17, 2026 | — | 65K |
Image input
Text input
Image output
Text output
|
★★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash | May 19, 2026 | — | 1M |
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|
★★★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | May 07, 2026 | — | 1M |
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★★★★★ | ★★★★★ | $$$ |
| Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B Unavailable | Apr 03, 2026 | 26B | 262K |
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★ | ★ | $$ |
| Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B | Apr 03, 2026 | 26B | 262K |
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★ | ★ | $$ |
| Google: Gemma 4 31B Unavailable | Apr 02, 2026 | 31B | 262K |
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★★ | ★★★★★ | $$ |
| Google: Gemma 4 31B | Apr 02, 2026 | 31B | 262K |
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★ | ★★★★★ | $$ |
| Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview | Mar 30, 2026 | — | 1M |
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— | — | $ |
| Google: Lyria 3 Clip Preview | Mar 30, 2026 | — | 1M |
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— | — | $ |
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview | Mar 02, 2026 | — | 1M |
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★★★★★ | ★★★★ | $$$ |
| Google: Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview) Unavailable | Feb 26, 2026 | — | 65K |
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★★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Google: Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview) | Feb 26, 2026 | — | 65K |
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★★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools | Feb 25, 2026 | — | 1M |
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★★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | Feb 19, 2026 | — | 1M |
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★★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Dec 17, 2025 | — | 1M |
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★★★★★ | ★★★★★ | $$$ |
| Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) | Nov 20, 2025 | — | 65K |
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— | ★ | $$$$$ |
| Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview Unavailable | Nov 18, 2025 | — | 1M |
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★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Google: Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) | Oct 07, 2025 | — | 32K |
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— | — | $$$$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | — | 1M |
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★★★★★ | ★★★ | $$$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview (Nano Banana) Unavailable | Aug 26, 2025 | — | 32K |
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— | — | $$$$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | Jul 22, 2025 | — | 1M |
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★★★★★ | ★★★ | $$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 06-17 Unavailable | Jun 17, 2025 | — | 1M |
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★★★★ | ★★★ | $$$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash | Jun 17, 2025 | — | 1M |
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★★★★ | ★★★ | $$$$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro | Jun 17, 2025 | — | 1M |
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★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | Jun 05, 2025 | — | 1M |
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|
★★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Google: Gemma 1 2B Unavailable | May 28, 2025 | 2B | 8K |
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— | — | $$ |
| Google: Gemma 3n 4B | May 20, 2025 | 4B | 32K |
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★★★ | ★★ | $ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 Unavailable | May 20, 2025 | — | 1M |
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★★★★★ | ★★★★ | $$$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 | May 06, 2025 | — | 1M |
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★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 04-17 Unavailable | Apr 17, 2025 | — | 1M |
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★★★★★ | ★★★★★ | $$$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental Unavailable | Mar 25, 2025 | — | 1M |
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— | — | $ |
| Google: Gemma 3 4B | Mar 13, 2025 | 4B | 131K |
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★★★ | ★ | $ |
| Google: Gemma 3 12B | Mar 13, 2025 | 12B | 131K |
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★★★ | ★★ | $$ |
| Google: Gemma 3 27B | Mar 11, 2025 | 27B | 131K |
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★★★ | ★★ | $$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite Unavailable | Feb 25, 2025 | — | 1M |
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★★★★★ | ★★ | $$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Unavailable | Feb 05, 2025 | — | 1M |
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★★★★★ | ★★★ | $$ |
| Google: Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Unavailable | Oct 02, 2024 | ~500B | 1M |
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★★★★★ | ★★ | $ |
| Google: Gemma 2 27B | Jul 12, 2024 | 27B | 8K |
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★★★★ | ★★ | $$$ |
| Google: Gemma 2 9B Unavailable | Jun 27, 2024 | 9B | 8K |
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★★★ | ★ | $$ |
| Google: Gemini 1.5 Flash Unavailable | May 13, 2024 | ~500B | 1M |
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★★★★★ | ★★★ | $$ |
| Google: Gemini 1.5 Pro Unavailable | Apr 08, 2024 | ~1T | 2M |
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★★★★ | ★★★ | $$$$ |