Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

Caution: The gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generation and gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview models will be retired on October 31, 2025. Migrate any workflows to gemini-2.5-flash-image before that date to avoid service disruption.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is optimized for image understanding and generation and offers a balance of price and performance. Like Gemini 2.5 Flash, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image also features thinking capabilities, which lets you see the thinking process that the model goes through when generating its response.

For even more detailed technical information on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (such as performance benchmarks, information on our training datasets, efforts on sustainability, intended usage and limitations, and our approach to ethics and safety), see our technical report on our Gemini 2.5 models.

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Model ID	gemini-2.5-flash-image
Supported inputs & outputs	Inputs: Text, Images Outputs: Text and image
Token limits	Maximum input tokens: 32,768 Maximum output tokens: 32,768
Capabilities	Supported System instructions Count Tokens Not supported Grounding with Google Search Code execution Tuning Function calling Live API Preview feature Thinking Vertex AI RAG Engine Chat completions
Usage types	Supported Provisioned Throughput Dynamic shared quota Batch prediction Not supported Fixed quota
Input size limit	500 MB
Technical specifications
	Images	Maximum images per prompt: 3 Maximum image size: 7 MB Maximum number of output images per prompt: 10 Supported aspect ratios: 1:1, 3:2, 2:3, 3:4, 4:3, 4:5, 5:4, 9:16, 16:9, and 21:9 Supported MIME types: image/png, image/jpeg, image/webp
	Documents	Maximum number of files per prompt: 3 Maximum number of pages per file: 3 Maximum file size per file: 50 MB (API and Cloud Storage imports) or 7 MB (direct upload through Google Cloud console) Supported MIME types: application/pdf, text/plain
	Parameter defaults	Temperature: 0.0-2.0 (default 1.0) topP: 0.0-1.0 (default 0.95) topK: 64 (fixed) candidateCount: 1–8 (default 1)
Supported regions
	Model availability (Includes dynamic shared quota & Provisioned Throughput)	Global global United States us-central1 us-east1 us-east4 us-east5 us-south1 us-west1 us-west4 Europe europe-central2 europe-north1 europe-southwest1 europe-west1 europe-west4 europe-west8
	ML processing	United States Multi-region Europe Multi-region
	See Data residency for more information.
Knowledge cutoff date	June 2025
Versions	gemini-2.5-flash-image Launch stage: GA Release date: October 2, 2025 gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview Launch stage: Public preview Release date: August 26, 2025 Discontinuation date: October 31, 2025
Security controls
	See Security controls for more information.
Supported languages	See Supported languages.
Pricing	See Pricing.