Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is a language model from Google, released in July 2026, with multimodal input, a 1.0M-token context window, and pricing from $0.300/M input and $2.50/M output.
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is Google's low-latency, cost-effective multimodal reasoning model for high-throughput agentic workflows, document processing, data extraction, translation, and classification. It supports text, image, video, audio,
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite benchmarks
Rankings
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Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Performance Across Datasets
Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts
llm-stats.com - Tue Jul 21 2026Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite pricing
Providers
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite starts at $0.300 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens via Google.
| Provider | Input $/M | Output $/M | Context in / out | TTFT p50 / p95 s | Output avg / p5 c/s | Success 7d | Modalities in / out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Google | $0.300 | $2.50 | 1.0M/65.5K | —/— | —/— | — | / |
Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests. Success is calculated from completed versus failed requests over the trailing seven days.
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite context window
Input and output token limits for Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite API
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Use it in your code
Billed at $0.30 input / $2.50 output per 1M tokens through the LLM Stats gateway.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
base_url="https://gateway.llm-stats.com/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="gemini-3.5-flash-lite",
messages=[
{"role": "user", "content": "What is machine learning?"}
]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Need an API key? Create one above in the playground, or read the API documentation.
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite latency
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite examples
Recent arena outputs from Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite license
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms, has a knowledge cutoff of March 2026.
- License
- Proprietary
- Hosted access
- Knowledge cutoff
- March 2026
Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite resources
Official sources for Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite: api documentation, official playground, official launch post.
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs other models
The most-compared alternatives to Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite are Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Flash, MAI-Thinking-1. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.
Models like Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Models ranked just above and below Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite by LLM Stats score.
FAQ
Common questions about Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite.