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Gemini 2.5 Flash — Benchmark Scores, Pricing & Performance Analysis

Chatbot Arena ELO
1320
Output Speed
251 tok/s
Input Cost
$0.30/1M
Output Cost
$2.5/1M
Context Window
1.0M
Max Output
66K
Knowledge Cutoff
Jan 2025
Accepts
file, image, text, audio, video

Gemini 2.5 Flash by Google demonstrates strong general intelligence, fast output speed, competitive pricing. View detailed benchmark data including scores across coding, math, reasoning, speed, and cost metrics.

Specifications last checked against the provider on . Benchmark scores carry their own source, linked beside each number.

General Benchmarks

MMLU-Pro
73.0%38th of 66

Massive Multitask Language Understanding professional benchmark

HuggingFace Leaderboard
Chatbot Arena ELO
132039th of 74

Human preference ELO from blind head-to-head votes

LMSYS / HuggingFace

Coding Benchmarks

Website Arena ELO
108687th of 108

Human preference ELO for building a working web page from a brief

Design Arena (via OpenRouter)
LiveCodeBench
42.0%41st of 66

Live competitive programming benchmark

livecodebench.github.io
HumanEval+
82.0%39th of 66

Code generation correctness with extended tests

Papers
SWE-bench Verified
38.0%41st of 67

Real-world software engineering task resolution

swebench.com
Design Arena ELO
105697th of 120

Human preference ELO for building things — websites, UI, games, charts, SVG

Design Arena (via OpenRouter)

Math Benchmarks

GSM8K
91.0%38th of 66

Grade school math word problems

Papers
MATH
76.0%40th of 66

Competition mathematics problem solving

Papers

Reasoning Benchmarks

τ²-Bench Airline
57.7%69th of 93

Multi-turn service agent making tool calls under strict policy constraints

OpenRouter (measured)
ARC-AGI
25.0%35th of 66

Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for general intelligence

arcprize.org
GPQA Diamond
72.7%82nd of 140

Graduate-level science Q&A by domain experts

Papers
BBH
89.8%4th of 13

Big-Bench Hard — 23 challenging multi-step reasoning tasks

Google Research

Speed Benchmarks

Time to First Token
410 ms48th of 92

Latency before first token arrives

Aggregated
Output Speed
251 tok/s3rd of 94

Tokens generated per second

Aggregated

Cost Benchmarks

Input Cost
$0.30204th of 413

Cost per 1M input tokens

OpenRouter API
Cached Input Cost
$0.0325th of 136

Cost per 1M cached input tokens — the price that actually applies to a long agent conversation

OpenRouter API
Output Cost
$2.5265th of 413

Cost per 1M output tokens

OpenRouter API

Context Benchmarks

Context Length
1.0M18th of 451

Maximum context window size

OpenRouter API
RULER
90.2%5th of 13

Long-context understanding and retrieval accuracy at depth

Papers

Multimodal Benchmarks

MathVista
75.5%4th of 14

Visual mathematical reasoning across diagrams and charts

Papers

Available from 33 providers

The same model costs different amounts depending on who serves it. You can bring your own key for 4 of these — connect it here.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MCached inContextYour key
Kenari$0$0—1.0M—
QiHang$0.09$0.71—1.0M—
Poe$0.21$1.8$0.0211.1M—
Jiekou.AI$0.27$2.25—1.0M—
Cortecs$0.299$2.491$0.0291.0M—
302.AI$0.3$2.5—1.0M—
Abacus$0.3$2.5$0.031.0M—
AIHubMix$0.3$2.5$0.031.0M—
Auriko$0.3$2.5$0.031.0M—
CrossModel$0.3$2.5$0.031.0M—
Databricks$0.3$2.5$0.031.0M—
DevPass (LLM Gateway)$0.3$2.5$0.031.0M—
FastRouter$0.3$2.5$0.03751.0M—
FrogBot$0.3$2.5$0.0751.0M—
Google$0.3$2.5$0.031.0MSupported
Impossibl$0.3$2.5$0.031.0M—
Kilo Gateway$0.3$2.5$0.031.0M—
LLM Gateway$0.3$2.5$0.031.0M—
Merge Gateway$0.3$2.5$0.031.0M—
Modelis$0.3$2.5—1.0M—
NanoGPT$0.3$2.5$0.031.0M—
NEAR AI Cloud$0.3$2.5$0.031.0M—
Ofox$0.3$2.5$0.031.0M—
OpenRouter$0.3$2.5$0.031.0MSupported
OrcaRouter$0.3$2.5$0.031.0M—
Perplexity Agent$0.3$2.5$0.031.0M—
Requesty$0.3$2.5$0.0751.0M—
SAP AI Core$0.3$2.5$0.031.0M—
Vercel AI Gateway$0.3$2.5$0.031.0MSupported
Vertex$0.3$2.5$0.031.0MSupported
ZenMux$0.3$2.5$0.071.0M—
AnyAPI———1.0M—
Qiniu———1.0M—

Gemini 2.5 Flash — Benchmark Scores Overview

Scores normalized to percentage scale for visual comparison. ELO scores mapped to 0-100 range (1100-1500).

Gemini 2.5 Flash — Frequently Asked Questions

How intelligent is Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Gemini 2.5 Flash scores 1320 on the Chatbot Arena ELO rating, making it a mid-tier AI model. This score is based on blind head-to-head human preference voting.

How much does Gemini 2.5 Flash cost?

Gemini 2.5 Flash costs $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $2.5 per 1M output tokens. This makes it one of the more affordable models.

How fast is Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Gemini 2.5 Flash generates output at 251 tokens per second, which is very fast compared to other models. The time to first token is 410 ms.

How good is Gemini 2.5 Flash at coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash achieves 38.0% on SWE-bench Verified, demonstrating moderate real-world software engineering capability. This benchmark tests the model's ability to resolve actual GitHub issues.

How good is Gemini 2.5 Flash at math and reasoning?

Gemini 2.5 Flash scores 76.0% on the MATH benchmark (competition-level mathematics). It also achieves 72.7% on GPQA Diamond, a graduate-level science reasoning benchmark.

What is the context window of Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Gemini 2.5 Flash has a context window of 1.0M tokens. This determines how much text, conversation history, and code the model can process in a single request.

Who created Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Gemini 2.5 Flash was created by Google. It is classified as a mid model in our catalogue.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash open source?

No, Gemini 2.5 Flash is a proprietary model. It is available through Google's API and compatible providers.