Sep 26, 2025
Gemini 2.5 Flash (09/25) Models Evaluated
We evaluated Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (9/25) (Thinking) (and also the Flash Lite model) and found the following:
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Compared to the previous version, the update shows improvements on GPQA Diamond, with a ~17% increase over the previous version.
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Flash improved on Terminal-Bench (+5%), GPQA Diamond (+17.2%), and our private Corp Fin Benchmark (+4.4%). It also ranks #3/38 on MMMU Pro and #6/20 on SWE-bench Verified (for the thinking model), while delivering performance at half the cost of similar models.
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Flash Lite matches Flash on several public benchmarks, making it a very cost-effective option. However, Flash outperforms Lite by ~10% on our private benchmarks (CaseLaw v2, TaxEval, Mortgage Tax).
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Flash delivers competitive performance at a fraction of the cost of other foundation models.
Overall, the latest update to Gemini 2.5 Flash is a highly efficient model that balances strong performance with low cost.