Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is worth evaluating for coding, rag, and agents when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating coding, rag, and agents
- Workloads that can use a 1.05m context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence
- Family
- Gemini 3.5
- Released
- 2026-07-21
- Context
- 1.05m
- Max output
- 65,536
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
Cheapest of 1 route · Google AI Studio
About
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is Google DeepMind's generally available multimodal model in the Gemini 3.5 family. It accepts text, image, video, audio, and PDF inputs and returns text, with a 1,048,576-token context window, up to 65,536 output tokens, and Gemini API support for code execution, prompt caching, and batch processing. Compare it for Coding, Agents, Long context, Vision, and JSON / Tool use. In Google AI Studio, select Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite when lower token cost and high throughput are the priority; select Gemini 3.6 Flash when higher capability matters more.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Agents
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google AI Studio | $0.300 | $2.50 | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(13)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
API versions
gemini-3.5-flash-liteRankings & picks(2)
Comparison and alternatives
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