Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite offers a significantly faster time to first token (TTFT) compared to Gemini Flash 1.5, while maintaining quality on par with larger models like Gemini Pro 1.5, all at extremely economical token prices.
Modalities
Input Price
$0.075/M
Output Price
$0.30/M
Context
1M
Weekly Tokens
48.5B
Released
Feb 25, 2025
Create an API key from your OpenRouter dashboard and set it as an environment variable:
Use google/gemini-2.0-flash-lite-001 with the OpenRouter API:
OpenRouter provides an OpenAI-compatible completion API to 400+ models & providers that you can call directly, or using the OpenAI SDK. Additionally, some third-party SDKs are available.
In the examples below, the OpenRouter-specific headers are optional. Setting them allows your app to appear on the OpenRouter leaderboards.
For information about using third-party SDKs and frameworks with OpenRouter, please see our frameworks documentation.
Add "stream": true to your request body to receive responses as server-sent events:
Sends a request for a model response for the given chat conversation. Supports both streaming and non-streaming modes.
https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completionsBearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEYapplication/jsonoptional — your site URL, for rankingsoptional — your site name, for rankingsgoogle/gemini-2.0-flash-lite-001Creates a streaming or non-streaming response using the OpenAI Responses API format.
Docshttps://openrouter.ai/api/v1/responsesBearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEYapplication/jsonoptional — your site URL, for rankingsoptional — your site name, for rankingsgoogle/gemini-2.0-flash-lite-001Creates a message using the Anthropic Messages API format. Supports text, images, PDFs, tools, and extended thinking.
Docshttps://openrouter.ai/api/v1/messagesBearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEYapplication/jsonoptional — your site URL, for rankingsoptional — your site name, for rankingsgoogle/gemini-2.0-flash-lite-001| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
max_tokens | integer | — | This sets the upper limit for the number of tokens the model can generate in response. |
temperature | float | 1 | This setting influences the variety in the model's responses. |
top_p | float | 1 | This setting limits the model's choices to a percentage of likely tokens: only the top tokens whose probabilities add up to P. |
seed | integer | — | If specified, the inferencing will sample deterministically, such that repeated requests with the same seed and parameters should return the same result. |
response_format | map | — | Forces the model to produce specific output format. |
tools | array | — | Tool calling parameter, following OpenAI's tool calling request shape. |
tool_choice | string or object | — | Controls which (if any) tool is called by the model. |
stop | array | — | Stop generation immediately if the model encounter any token specified in the stop array. |