Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite at a glance.
From Google's own pages, read Oct 20, 2026, so company-reported. A token is a word or part of a word. Prices can change; check the maker's page before you build on them.
- Made by
- GoogleBased in US
- Released
- Jul 21, 2026Google blog: 'Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash
- What it is for
- “Our fastest, most cost-effective 3.5 model for high-throughput execution.”Gemini API docs: Models, Oct 19, 2026 · in Google's words
- Reads at once
- 1M tokensIts context window: how much text it can take in one go
- Takes in
- text, image, video, audio, pdf
- Download
- No, online only
$0.30per million tokens in$2.50per million tokens out
Same input price for text, image, video and audio. Context caching $0.03 plus $1.00 per 1M tokens per hour storage. Batch $0.15 in / $1.25 out. Free tier available.
Gemini API docs: Pricing, Oct 20, 2026 · company-reported
Where it ranks.
Its position on each of the 21 tests the models page uses, by testers other than the maker. Epoch AI's and Vectara's scores are shown under their open licenses; for LMArena, Scale and Vals we give the position and link to their own leaderboard. Each list is a snapshot with its date.
| Test | Rank | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities IndexEpoch AI, Oct 20, 2026 | Not in the top 30 | |
| Vals IndexVals AI, Oct 19, 2026 | Not in the top 20 |
| Test | Rank | Score |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDevLMArena, Oct 19, 2026 | Not in the top 20 | |
| SWE-Bench ProScale AI, Sep 22, 2026 | Not in the top 16 | |
| Vibe Code BenchVals AI, Oct 18, 2026 | Not in the top 20 | |
| LMArena coding chatsLMArena, Oct 15, 2026 | Not in the top 20 |
| Test | Rank | Score |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena textLMArena, Oct 15, 2026 | Not in the top 20 | |
| LMArena creative writingLMArena, Oct 15, 2026 | Not in the top 20 | |
| MultiChallengeScale AI, Feb 3, 2026 | Not in the top 15 |
| Test | Rank | Score |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Agent ArenaLMArena, Oct 19, 2026 | Not in the top 20 | |
| Remote Labor IndexScale AI | Not in the top 16 | |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0Vals AI, Oct 19, 2026 | Not in the top 20 | |
| CUA-bench (games)Vals AI, Oct 13, 2026 | Not in the top 9 |
| Test | Rank | Score |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena mathLMArena, Oct 15, 2026 | Not in the top 20 | |
| Humanity's Last ExamScale AI | Not in the top 17 | |
| ProofBenchVals AI, Oct 12, 2026 | Not in the top 20 |
| Test | Rank | Score |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena visionLMArena, Oct 19, 2026 | Not in the top 20 | |
| LMArena documentsLMArena, Sep 13, 2026 | Not in the top 20 |
| Test | Rank | Score |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA DiamondVals AI, Sep 1, 2026 | Not in the top 20 | |
| MMMU ProVals AI, Sep 1, 2026 | Not in the top 20 |
| Test | Rank | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara hallucination testVectara, Oct 16, 2026 | Not in our copy of the list |
“Not in the top” means it isn't among the models in our copy of that list, which runs to the position shown; it may not have been tested. Vectara's test ranks by how rarely a model adds facts, so lower is better. Positions can be shared when scores tie. Epoch's range is its margin of uncertainty. Epoch AI and Vectara data: CC BY 4.0 and Apache-2.0.
What Gemini costs.
Google's chat app, priced by the month in US dollars on its own pages. Which plans include Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is on Google's pages.
Every chat app's plans| Plan | A month |
|---|---|
| Free | Free |
| Google AI Plus | $4.99 |
| Google AI Pro | $19.99 |
| Google AI Ultra | from $99.99 |
Google: Gemini subscriptions page, Oct 20, 2026 · company-reported
Our note: Output limit 65,536 tokens. Older Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite ($0.25/$1.50) is also still stable on the Gemini API.