Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
GoogleReleased Jul 21, 2026Closed weightsgemini-3.5-flash-lite
- Intelligence (Epoch)
- 145 · 64th of 111
- Knowledge cutoff
- March 2026
- Context
- 1M tokens
- Max output
- 64k tokens
- Input
- text, image
- Google's API
- yes, as gemini-3.5-flash-lite
Read Sep 4, 20:00 UTC from the hosts' published offers and OpenRouter, spec sheet from Google · cutoff: ai.google.dev
Intelligence for the price
25 models score higher for the same price or less; it ranks 26 of the 67 models at its price or below.
Epoch Capabilities Index against the lowest input + output price per M, log scale · prices Sep 4. Score: Epoch AI, CC BY 4.0, 145 with an interval of 142 to 146.
Against its rivals
The best of its price range and the top score
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Litethis model$2.80145
- Claude Opus 5.5top score$24.00169
- Gemini 3.7 Flashsame price range$4.50158
- Gemini 3.8 Flashsame price range$4.50157
Same level for 18× less: Qwen3.7 Flash at Alibaba, $0.16 per M input + output · their Epoch intervals overlap (144 against 145).
Bars: Epoch Capabilities Index (Epoch AI, CC BY 4.0), drawn from 100, below the lowest score in the catalogue · price: lowest input + output per M.
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache ↑ | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.30 | $2.50 | $0.03 | Sep 4 |
1 provider · prices per million tokens, read Sep 4, 20:00 UTC
| Provider | Weights | Context | Max output | Tools | Structured outputs | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1M | 64K | — | — | — |
As served by each host and declared to OpenRouter; not verified by us · weights: the precision the host declares
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite spec sheet, field by field, with sources
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite spec sheetmaker-declared
What the maker declares about the model itself — read from its own weights repository and documentation, not from any host. What each endpoint actually serves is in the pricing above: the two can differ, and both are true.
- Context window
- to verify
- Parameters
- to verify
- Active experts
- to verify
- Weight precision
- not applicable — no weights published
- License
- Proprietary — API onlyScope: the licence on the published weights, and nothing else. It is not the maker's acceptable-use policy, which is a separate document, and it is not the contract you sign with whichever host you call — hosts set their own terms, which this index does not read.
- Knowledge cutoff
- March 2026maker's docs
- Modalities
- to verify
- Max output (official)
- to verify
- Release date
- to verify≈ July 21, 2026 third-party catalogue — not the maker's figure
- Maker lifecycle status
- to verify
ai.google.dev · maker's documentation · 2 of 10 fields published by the maker
| Provider | Chatbot 1,000 in / 500 out | RAG / long context 8,000 in / 500 out | Batch summarize 4,000 in / 1,000 out |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1.55 | $3.65 | $3.70 |
What each host bills for 1,000 requests of a representative job
Your own workload
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