Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 06 17 Thinking
Key facts · verified Oct 29, 2026
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 06 17 Thinking is a Google model. It was retired on 18 November 2025. Its last listed API price was $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens (before retirement). Its context window is 1M tokens. It ranks #196 on LMArena's text leaderboard (Elo 1375, read 2 Nov 2026). Source: ai.google.dev.
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 06-17 was a Google preview model offered on the Gemini API as gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17. Google's changelog of 4 November 2025 scheduled it for shutdown on 18 November 2025, with the stable gemini-2.5-flash-lite as its GA successor. It was priced at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens, with a 1M-token context window. Its LMArena text rating is 1375 Elo (rank 196).
Full Specifications
$0.10 / $0.40 per million tokens | |
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| Identity | |
| Developer | |
| Retired | 18 November 2025 |
| Status | Retired. Google's changelog of 4 November 2025 scheduled gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17 for shutdown on 18 November 2025; the GA successor is gemini-2.5-flash-lite. |
| Licence | Proprietary |
| Self-hostable | No |
| Cost | |
| Blended $/1M tokensinput × 0.75 + output × 0.25 | $0.175 / 1M tokens |
| Input price | $0.100 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $0.400 / 1M tokens |
| Capacity | |
| Context window | 1M tokens |
| Measured quality | |
| LMArena Elo | 1375 (checked Nov 2026) |
| LMArena rank | Rank 196 |
| Elo per dollarLMArena Elo ÷ blended $/1M tokens | 7857 |