Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

Available

Cost-efficient stable model for high-volume agentic tasks, translation, and simple processing.

Access details: Gemini API

The model ID to use in API requests.

gemini-3.5-flash-lite

Updated Oct 20, 2026

Sources & notes

Capabilities & limits

Context window: 1M
Maximum output: 64K
Image input: Supported
Tool calling: Supported
Structured output: Supported

Pricing

USD / 1M tokens

Input: $0.30
Output: $2.50

Standard rates per million tokens. Discounts and long-context rates, where offered, are on Google's pricing page.

Full rate card 4 rates

All prices in USD.

Standard input

$0.30 per 1M tokens

text, image, video, or audio input

Standard output

$2.50 per 1M tokens

includes thinking tokens

Cached input

$0.03 per 1M tokens

Cache storage

$1.00 per 1M tokens per hour

context caching storage

Paid tier. Batch and Flex: $0.15 input / $1.25 output / $0.02 cached. Priority: $0.54 / $4.50 / $0.05 cached. Free tier is free of charge; context caching is not available on the free tier. Grounding with Google Search: 5,000 free requests per month shared across Gemini 3.x models, then $14 per 1,000.

Price history

Sep 13, 2026

Input $0.30 per million tokens

Oct 20, 2026

Input $0.30 per million tokens

Sep 13, 2026

Output $2.50 per million tokens

Oct 20, 2026

Output $2.50 per million tokens

Technical details

Parameters: Not published
Active parameters: Not published
Architecture: Based on Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Training / knowledge cutoff: March 2026
Input modalities: Text, image, video, audio, PDF
Output modalities: Text

From Google

Official announcement ↗

Release & lifecycle

First available: Jul 21, 2026
available: As of Sep 13, 2026
available: As of Oct 20, 2026