Gemini 2.5 Flash review, price and benchmarks (2026)

legacy paid api speed

Provider

Statuslegacy

AA Intelligence Index14.1 (July 16, 2026 snapshot)

Releasedn/a

Context windown/a

Modalitiesn/a

API price $/1M (in / out)n/a

Speedn/a

AccessAPI (legacy)

In one line

2025's fast tier, kept for compatibility.

Coding32

Reasoning28

Writing32

Agents & tools26

Category scores (0-100) are WhichAI blended ratings: public category leaderboards plus editorial judgment. Guidance, not official measurements.

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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 2026 rebased scale (top models ≈ 55–60). Snapshot: July 24, 2026 (BenchLM mirror), retrieved July 26, 2026. Context, price and release data come from vendor pages and public pricing mirrors (retrieved July 19, 2026). Missing values are not published or not yet verified - shown as -. Sources are linked inside the app (Model guide and About > Methodology).