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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (06-17)
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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (06-17) is a closed-weights language model from Google, released June 2025.
Catalogue identity notes
Comparison-only. Arena entry 'gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17-thinking' (text, vision; thinking on). Gemini API changelog, June 17, 2025: 'Released gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17, a low-cost, high-performance Gemini 2.5 model.' Moved off the GA id in the 2026-10-07 successor audit.
Model information sources
$ how it compares
The LLMs ranked either side of Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (06-17), out of 828 with a score, then more from Google.
| # | model | score | where | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 213 |  Mistral Large 3 (675B-A41B) | 62±1 | api $0.75/M +local | ||
| 214 |  Apriel 1.6 15B Thinker | 62±2 | local | ||
| 215 | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (06-17) | 62±2 | comparison only | ||
| 216 | Gemini 2.5 Flash | 62±1 | api $0.85/M | ||
| 217 |  MiniMax-M1 (40k) | 61±1 | comparison only | ||
| more from Google | |||||
| 9 | Gemini 4 Argon (limited preview) | 82±1 | limited preview | ||
| 23 | Gemini 3.8 Flash | 77±1 | api $1.50/M | ||
| 32 | Gemini 3.7 Flash | 76±1 | api $1.50/M | ||
$ what it's good at
agent tasks▁▁▂▆█▆▅▄▄▃▂▁ #267 of 340 * · 12% of its score · 1 test
Beats o3-mini here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Granite 4.0 1B, SmolLM3 3B, Phi-3.5-mini-instruct here, though they rank lower overall.
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| BFCL V4 (2025-11-03 archive, models absent from the December archive) | 35.3% ✎ | ▃··▅▃▃·▅·▃·█ beats 2/10 | 12% |
chat & writing▁▁▁▃▅▄▆█▇▇▇▃ #155 of 463 * · 51% of its score · 1 test
Beats o3-mini, EXAONE 4.5 33B, INTELLECT-3 here, though they rank higher overall. Trails LFM2.5 8B-A1B, LFM2.5 2.6B, Spark-X2.5 1.7B here, though they rank lower overall.
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena (text) | 1374.9 ✎ | ▁▁▁▂▃▃▃▆▆▇█▃ beats 216/379 | 51% |
vision & documents▁▁▃▃▂▃▅▄▇▇█▃ #98 of 182 * · 35% of its score · 1 test
Beats DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp), GPT-5 mini, GLM-4.6V here, though they rank higher overall. Trails GPT-4.1 mini, Qwen3.5 4B, Gemini 2.5 Flash here, though they rank lower overall.
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arena vision (style controlled) | 1188.4 ✎ | ▁▁▂▂▂▂▄▅▅▆██ beats 65/145 | 35% |
$ where to run it
No verified API or download recorded yet · add one
$ how the score was worked out · LMArena leaderboard dataset 86%, Berkeley Function Calling Lea… 12%
Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works
| source | results | share of the score |
|---|---|---|
 LMArena leaderboard dataset | 2 | 86% |
 Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard result archive | 1 | 12% |
| prior · pull toward the middle | 3% | |
| weighted average | = 61.6 |
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