Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is a lightweight reasoning model in the Gemini 2.5 family, optimized for ultra-low latency and cost efficiency. It offers improved throughput, faster token generation, and better performance across common benchmarks compared to earlier Flash models. By default, "thinking" (i.e. multi-pass reasoning) is disabled to prioritize speed, but developers can enable it via the [Reasoning API parameter](https://openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/reasoning-tokens) to selectively trade off cost for intelligence.
curl -X POST https://api.neuralhub.xyz/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-d '{
"model": "google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025",
"messages": [
{ "role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant." },
{ "role": "user", "content": "" }
],
"temperature": 0.7,
"max_tokens": 500,
"top_p": 0.9
}'{
"id": "chatcmpl-<uuid>",
"object": "chat.completion",
"created": 1768458047,
"model": "google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025",
"choices": [
{
"index": 0,
"message": {
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The answer to life, the universe, and everything is famously 42..."
},
"finish_reason": "stop"
}
],
"usage": {
"prompt_tokens": 26,
"completion_tokens": 169,
"total_tokens": 195
}
}