Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite is Google's multimodal model accepting text, images, files, audio, and video as input, with a context window of 1,048,576 tokens and a maximum of 65,535 output tokens per response. It supports tool use and reasoning, though structured output support is unconfirmed. The combination of broad input modalities and a very large context window makes it suitable for tasks involving mixed media or long documents. On price, it sits at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens, placing it toward the budget end of the market. Benchmark coverage is thin, with a blended score of 9.9 across only one independent benchmark, so performance claims should be treated as preliminary. Teams with cost-sensitive, high-volume workloads who need multimodal input and large context should shortlist it, but those requiring validated quality benchmarks may want to wait for broader evaluation data.