Scheduled for retirement on Jul 21, 2027. Still available at the prices below until then.
Context
1M
Max output
66K
Serving providers
6
Cheapest input
$0.30 /1M
On-demand listed rates, OpenRouter routed quotes and Vercel reseller quotes. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower.

Benchmarks

independent evaluations · source: Artificial Analysis
Speed & latency
Output speed
416 t/s
tokens / second
Time to first token
8.13s
latency
Headline indices
49.3
of 100
Frozen Sep 9, 2026
15.9
of 100
Frozen Sep 9, 2026
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
BenchmarkBest scoreEffortCost / task
Automation Bench0.3default—
CritPt0%default—
GDPval v2Frozen Aug 18, 20261139.9default—
GPQA Diamond84%default—
Harvey Lab0default—
Humanity's Last Exam19%default—
Long-Context Reasoning76%default—
Mlcr OverallFrozen Sep 9, 20260.1default—
MMMU-Pro79%default—
Omniscience5.2default—
Omniscience Accuracy0.3default—
Omniscience Non Hallucination0.7default—
SciCode41%default—
Terminal Bench400.0default—
TerminalBench v2.154%default—
τ-bench Banking18%default—
Artificial Analysis last published scores for this benchmark on Sep 9, 2026. Scores here are frozen at that date, and models released since are not on it.
Artificial Analysis last published scores for this benchmark on Aug 18, 2026. Scores here are frozen at that date, and models released since are not on it.

Pricing by serving provider

standard tier · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expand

Input pricing runs from $0.30 to $0.375 per 1M tokens across 6 providers, so the dearest route costs 25% more than the cheapest for the same model.

Serving providerInput /1MOutput /1MEndpoints
Aihubmix$0.30$2.501
GoogleCheapest$0.30$2.501
Standardgemini/gemini-3.5-flash-lite
ComponentUnitStandardBatch
Text cached in/1M tok$0.03—
Text input/1M tok$0.30$0.15
Text output/1M tok$2.50$1.25
OpenRouter$0.30$2.501
VercelVercel reseller quote$0.30$2.501
Vertex AI Language Models$0.30$2.501
Databricks$0.375$3.131
OpenRouter (batch)$0.15$1.251
Vercel (flex)Vercel reseller quote$0.15$1.251
Vercel is dearest at $0.54 / $4.50

Price history

listed seller prices, input and output per 1M tokens
Input Output
$0.00$1.00$2.00$3.00Jul 22Sep 6Sep 16$2.50$0.30

Cost calculator

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$260
estimated / month

Model IDs

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google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite:batchgoogle/gemini-3.5-flash-litegemini-3.5-flash-litegemini/gemini-3.5-flash-litegoogle/gemini-3.5-flash-litegoogle/gemini-3.5-flash-liteaihubmix/gemini-3.5-flash-litedatabricks/databricks-gemini-3-5-flash-litegoogle/gemini-3.5-flash-lite

Frequently asked questions

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite pricing, context and availability

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite still available?

Yes. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is scheduled for retirement on 2027-07-21.

How much does Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite cost?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite costs $0.30 per 1M input tokens from Google, and $2.50 per 1M output tokens from Aihubmix. Across 6 serving providers, input prices range from $0.30 to $0.375 per 1M tokens.

What is the context window of Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts up to 1M tokens of context and can return up to 66K output tokens.

Which providers serve Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is available from 6 serving providers, each with its own pricing and model ID. Google is currently the cheapest.

What can Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite do?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite supports image input (vision), tool use, reasoning, audio input, prompt caching, structured output and web search.

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