Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Cheapest current Gemini text model; recommended replacement for 2.5 Flash/Flash-Lite and 3.1 Flash-Lite. Alias gemini-flash-lite-latest may point here (not verified).
- Context window
- 1,048,576 tokens
- Max output
- 65,536 tokens
- Input
- text, image, audio, video, pdf
- Output
- text
- License
- proprietary
- Pricing
- input: $0.3 · output: $2.5 (per 1M tokens (Standard tier)) source
- Verified
- 2026-09-29
How to call it
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint / URL | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini API | gemini-3.5-flash-lite | https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/gemini-3.5-flash-lite:generateContent | docs |
| OpenRouter | google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite | — | — |
| Web app | — | gemini.google.com | — |
Notable capabilities (2)
- High-throughput subagent model: ~350 output tokens/s; optimized for subagent tasks and document processing at low cost. source
- Strong coding for a Lite tier: 54% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 vs 31% for the previous Flash-Lite. source
Fast, low-cost multimodal model for classification, extraction, routing and subagents.
curl "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/gemini-3.5-flash-lite:generateContent" \
-H "x-goog-api-key: $GEMINI_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"contents":[{"parts":[{"text":"Classify: I love this product"}]}]}'
Sources: model page, pricing, launch blog.
Other Google DeepMind models
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS · Gemini 3.8 Live · Gemini 3.8 Flash · Gemini 3.5 Transcribe (and Transcribe Live) · Lyria 3.5 · Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image) · Gemini Omni Flash (Omni 1.1 Flash) · Gemini Embedding 2 · Gemma 4 · Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) · Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) · Gemini Robotics 2 · Gemini Robotics ER 2 · Gemini Robotics On-Device 2 · Gemini 3.5 Live Translate · Gemini 3.1 Pro · Veo 3.1 · Genie 3 · Lyria RealTime · Gemini 3.7 Flash · Gemini 3.6 Flash · Gemini 3.5 Flash · Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS (preview) · Gemini 3.1 Flash Live (preview) · Lyria 3 (Clip / Pro) · Lyria 2 · Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio (Live, preview) · Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite · Gemini 2.5 Flash · Gemini 2.5 Pro · Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS / Pro TTS · Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite · Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) · Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5 / 1.6 · Imagen 4