Gemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash is a prior-gen value workhorse — very cheap multimodal reasoning with a 1M context, still hard to beat on raw price.

Best for

• Excellent price-performance reasoning at scale
• High-volume multimodal tasks where 3.x cost isn't justified
• Established apps already tuned on 2.5 Flash

How it compares — and the India angle

• Much cheaper than the newer 3.5 Flash ($0.30 vs $1.50 input) — for cost-first Indian deployments, 2.5 Flash can still be the rational pick.
• Lower coding/agentic ability than 3.5 Flash — choose 3.5 when those matter.
• A practical 'value floor' for mid-complexity multimodal work on INR budgets.