Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite by Google — $0.100 input / $0.400 output per 1M tokens via OpenRouter. Context: 1.0M tokens. Pricing last updated Oct 29, 2026.
| Usage | Daily | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| Chatbot (100/day) | $0.055 | $1.65 |
| Small app (1K/day) | $0.300 | $9.00 |
| Mid-scale (10K/day) | $4.00 | $120.00 |
| Large scale (100K/day) | $90.00 | $2700.00 |
google/gemini-2.5-flash-liteGoogle: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite is an LLM developed by Google. Input costs $0.100 per million tokens and output costs $0.400 per million tokens via OpenRouter. It supports a context window of 1.0M tokens.
Via the OpenRouter API:
A token is roughly 0.75 words. For context: a typical user message of 100 words is approximately 133 tokens; a 500-word system prompt is about 650 tokens.
For a typical chatbot application (1,000 requests/day, 1,000 prompt tokens and 500 output tokens per request):
OpenRouter provides a unified API for 200+ LLMs including Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite. You can use it with any OpenAI-compatible SDK by setting the base URL to https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 and using your OpenRouter API key. The model ID is google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite.
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google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite. OpenRouter provides a unified API compatible with OpenAI's SDK format.