Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite- Family · Gemini 3 Flash Lite
- Released 21 Jul 2026
- Text · Image · Video · File · Audio → Text
- Reasoning · adjustable
- Tools · JSON · Vision
Spec & list price
Context1M
Max output64K
Input / 1M$0.30
Output / 1M$2.508.3× input
Scores · standing
Intelligence22.2#120/489
Coding49.3#69/196
Usage
Tokens / day25.2B▲ 2.1% 7d
Usage rank#66
Requests / day4.3M
Tool calls / req0.02
Per request · 30 days
Avg input2.1K0.1× median
Avg output1020.1× median
Cache hit30%0.4× median
Reasoning share14%0.2× median
Tool-call failures3.1%1.6× median
Consumption
Peak 56.2B 13 OctLow 15.7B 31 OctRank today #66
News & trends
5 mentions this week ▼ 29%this model · videos, posts, articles · 30 days
Trending · 14 days
- I used Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite as the brain of a meeting copilot (Pluely) with my own API key — what worked, what broke2 upvotes
- GPT-6 Luna mı Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite mı? Fiyat ve hız1.1K views
- Anthropic Haiku 5.5 vs Google Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite draw “grumpy black cat, monday” #shorts85 views
- I used Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite as the brain of a meeting copilot (Pluely) instead of a ~$50/month subscription — what worked, what broke1 upvotes
News · latest from Google
- Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v529 Oct
- Gemini 4 Carbon (High) Scores 59 on Artificial Analysis v528 Oct
- Gemini 4 Carbonblog.google · 28 Oct
- Gemini 4 Carbon: Our next frontier modelGoogle DeepMind · 28 Oct
Benchmarks
bar = share of the top score · Benchmark data: Artificial AnalysisSpeed · median across 8 providers, latest day
Output speed#37/333130 tok/s1.9× faster than median
Fastest provider209 tok/sbest of 8 providers
First token#1470.9 s1.1× quicker than median
First answer token#344.66 sthinking included
#17 cheapest of 31 with a similar score
Value
Intelligence Index
Blended price per 1M tokens (log)
Family progress
Intelligence Index
- Family releases22.2
Technical details
- Reasoning
- on · minimal
- Tokenizer
- Gemini
- Moderation
- none
Reasoning effort
- high
- medium
- low
- minimal · default
Request parameters 12
- tools
- tool_choice
- response_format
- structured_outputs
- reasoning
- reasoning_effort
- include_reasoning
- temperature
- top_p
- max_tokens
+2 more
- stop
- seed
Interesting facts
- Less output room than similar models (65.5K against a 129.5K median).
- Released 103 days ago, the newest of 2 Gemini 3 Flash Lite models.
- 2nd of 3 Gemini 3 Flash Lite models by tokens last month.
When to use
Best for
- Low-cost bulk classification and extraction
- High-volume chat where latency matters
- Tagging images, audio and video at scale
- Long document summarization on a budget
Think twice for
- Hardest reasoning and coding tasks
- Complex agent workflows
- Self-hosting (closed weights)
Research papers
Social
Most watched and discussed · 90 days
- GPT-6 Luna mı Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite mı? Fiyat ve hızSayıyla · 1.1K views · 26 Oct
- Anthropic Haiku 5.5 vs Google Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite draw “grumpy black cat, monday” #shortsAI_DrawOff · 85 views · 24 Oct
- Google Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs Moonshot Kimi K2.6 draw “werewolf at pumpkin party” #shortsAI_DrawOff · 85 views · 24 Oct
- Alibaba Qwen3.8 Flash vs Google Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite draw “a frog dressed as a witch” #shortsAI_DrawOff · 74 views · 23 Oct
- Moonshot Kimi K2.6 vs Google Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite draw “a peacock on a skyscraper roof” #shortsAI_DrawOff · 64 views · 20 Oct
- Alibaba Qwen3.8 Flash vs Google Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite draw “scarecrow on first date” #shortsAI_DrawOff · 44 views · 25 Oct
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite on Mac + Phone Handoff ExplainedAditya Bharti · 38 views · 21 Oct
- ทำคลิปวันฮาโลวีน แบบใช้คำสั่งง่ายๆ กันด้วย Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite #halloween2026Saradee Story · 16 views · 31 Oct
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs Claude Haiku 5.5: 3x input, 5x output up to 100K tokensAI Tokenomics · 11 views · 30 Oct
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite composes live: Solarer Dämmerflug – SynthpopDavid Frölich · 2 views · 19 Oct
Same family
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Alternatives
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