AI model comparison

Trinity Large Thinking vs Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

Pricing, context window, benchmarks, and features compared side by side. Or skip the guesswork and send one prompt to both.

Trinity Large Thinking is a powerful open source reasoning model from the team at Arcee AI. It shows strong performance in PinchBench, agentic workloads, and reasoning tasks.

Input / 1M
$0.25
Output / 1M
$0.80
Context
262K

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is a lightweight reasoning model in the Gemini 2.5 family, optimized for ultra-low latency and cost efficiency.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite is scheduled to be retired on October 20, 2026. Consider Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite instead.

Input / 1M
$0.10
Output / 1M
$0.40
Context
1.05M

At a glance

Quick verdict

How the two models stack up on the things people ask about most.

Lower price

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Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

2.3x cheaper for a typical chat

Higher intelligence score

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Trinity Large Thinking

10.8 vs 10.4 on Artificial Analysis

Larger context window

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Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

1.05M vs 262K tokens

Newer release

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Trinity Large Thinking

Released April 1, 2026

Benchmarks

Benchmark scores

Independent scores from Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.

Intelligence index

arcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinking10.8
google logoGemini 2.5 Flash Lite10.4

Coding index

arcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinking25.8
google logoGemini 2.5 Flash LiteNot available

Agentic index

arcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinking1
google logoGemini 2.5 Flash LiteNot available

Pricing

Trinity Large Thinking vs Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite API pricing

Per-token API rates. Cheaper option highlighted.

Metricarcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinkinggoogle logoGemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Input tokensPer 1M tokens$0.25$0.10
Output tokensPer 1M tokens$0.80$0.40
Cached input (read)Per 1M tokens$0.06$0.01
Cache writePer 1M tokensNot available$0.08
Web searchPer requestNot available$0.014

What it costs in practice

Estimated cost per 1,000 requests at standard rates. Coding and long-document figures also show the cost when the input is already cached.

Chat message

2K in, 500 out

arcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinking$0.90
google logoGemini 2.5 Flash Lite$0.40

Coding task

30K in, 4K out

arcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinking$10.70$5 cached
google logoGemini 2.5 Flash Lite$4.60$1.90 cached

Long document summary

150K in, 2K out

arcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinking$39.10$10.60 cached
google logoGemini 2.5 Flash Lite$15.80$2.30 cached

Specs

Context window and capabilities

How much each model can read, how much it can write, and what it accepts as input.

Metricarcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinkinggoogle logoGemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Context window262K tokens1.05M tokens
Max output80K tokens66K tokens
Input typesTextAudio, File, Image, Text, Video
Output typesTextText
Reasoning effort levelsNot availableNot available
Default reasoning effortNot availableNot available
Release dateApril 1, 2026July 22, 2025

Features

Supported features

API features available for each model.

Metricarcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinkinggoogle logoGemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Tool callingSupportedSupported
Structured outputsNot supportedSupported
JSON modeNot supportedSupported
ReasoningSupportedSupported
TemperatureSupportedSupported
Stop sequencesNot supportedSupported
Deterministic seedNot supportedSupported
Verbosity controlNot supportedNot supported

Our take

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite is 2.3x cheaper for a typical chat. Trinity Large Thinking scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (10.8 vs 10.4). Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite has the larger context window (1.05M vs 262K tokens). The right pick depends on your workload, so the quickest way to settle it is to send the same prompt to both and compare.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is Trinity Large Thinking or Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite cheaper?

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite is cheaper for a typical chat (2K input tokens and 500 output tokens). Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite costs $0.10 per 1M input tokens and $0.40 per 1M output tokens, while Trinity Large Thinking costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $0.80 per 1M output tokens.

Which has a bigger context window, Trinity Large Thinking or Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite?

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite supports up to 1.05M tokens of context, compared with 262K for Trinity Large Thinking.

Is Trinity Large Thinking smarter than Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite?

On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Trinity Large Thinking scores 10.8 and Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite scores 10.4, putting Trinity Large Thinking ahead. Benchmarks don't capture everything, so the best test is running your own prompts through both.

Can I use Trinity Large Thinking and Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite at the same time?

Yes. Shortcut Chat sends one prompt to multiple models at once, so you can see Trinity Large Thinking and Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite answer side by side and keep the better response.

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Why choose? Ask both.

Send one prompt to Trinity Large Thinking and Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite at the same time. Compare the answers side by side and keep the best one.