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Alternatives to Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite

Google LMArena 1434.7 $0.850/M on a balanced workload prices as of 2026-10-06

Every higher-scoring or cheaper alternative has a recorded capability loss.

Of the 144 models carrying both an independent score and a published price at the same delivery mode, 14 score at least as high as Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and cost no more under at least one listed workload, with at least one of those dimensions improved. 14 have a recorded capability loss, named on every row.

Dominance is not a property of a model. It is a property of a model, a capability lens and a workload, and all three are named on every row. Scores are LMArena Elo, used under CC BY 4.0 from the official dataset; prices are blended per million tokens. A higher score is not a drop-in replacement.

This page is built only while a candidate improves score or price without worsening the other under a listed workload. When that comparison no longer holds, it is not generated.

Where it holds

WorkloadGemini 3.5 Flash Lite $/MRecorded capabilities preservedRecorded capability losses
Balanced$0.850012
Summarise$0.33308
Chat$1.10012
Code gen$1.60014
Agentic$0.469011

Workload mixes are defined on the methodology page. Cached input is priced at the cached rate, and reasoning tokens at the worse of the reasoning and output rates.

What you would be replacing

Intelligence1434.7
Context window1M
Max output65K
Input modestext, image, video, file, audio
Tool useyes
Extended reasoningyes

Preserving recorded capabilities requires matching or beating these fields. Full record for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite, or check Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite against the whole catalogue.

Alternatives with recorded capability losses 14

These improve score or price without worsening the other under the listed workloads, but reduce at least one recorded capability. Read the last column before switching.

ModelIntelligence$/MHolds underRecorded capability loss
MiMo-V2.6-Pro Xiaomi1491 +56.3$0.540
  • Balanced −36%
  • Summarise −1%
  • Chat −56%
  • Code gen −59%
  • Agentic −48%
  • no file input
GLM 5.3 Flash Z.ai1469.6 +34.9$0.238
  • Balanced −72%
  • Summarise −60%
  • Chat −77%
  • Code gen −78%
  • Agentic −72%
  • no file, audio input
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek1462.5 +27.8$0.182
  • Balanced −79%
  • Summarise −80%
  • Chat −78%
  • Code gen −77%
  • Agentic −78%
  • no video, file, audio input
MiMo-V2.5-Pro Xiaomi1465 +30.3$0.544
  • Balanced −36%
  • Chat −56%
  • Code gen −59%
  • Agentic −48%
  • no image, video, file, audio input
MiMo-V2.6-Flash Xiaomi1456.4 +21.7$0.175
  • Balanced −79%
  • Summarise −68%
  • Chat −86%
  • Code gen −87%
  • Agentic −83%
  • no file input
Qwen3.7 Plus Qwen1454.6 +19.9$0.560
  • Balanced −34%
  • Summarise −11%
  • Chat −43%
  • Code gen −45%
  • Agentic −34%
  • 1M → 1M context
  • no video, file, audio input
Gemma 4 31B Google1443.4 tie$0.205
  • Balanced −76%
  • Summarise −54%
  • Chat −78%
  • Code gen −81%
  • Agentic −62%
  • 1M → 262K context
  • 66K → 16K max output
  • no file, audio input
Hy3 Tencent1440.7 tie$0.231
  • Balanced −73%
  • Summarise −63%
  • Chat −76%
  • Code gen −77%
  • Agentic −72%
  • 1M → 262K context
  • no image, video, file, audio input
Qwen3.8 27B Qwen1440.7 tie$0.562
  • Balanced −34%
  • Summarise −45%
  • Chat −23%
  • Code gen −23%
  • Agentic −21%
  • 1M → 1M context
  • no file, audio input
GLM 4.6 Z.ai1439.9 tie$0.760
  • Balanced −11%
  • Chat −22%
  • Code gen −25%
  • Agentic −11%
  • 1M → 205K context
  • 66K → 16K max output
  • no image, video, file, audio input
Qwen3.6 Plus Qwen1436.7 tie$0.731
  • Balanced −14%
  • Chat −11%
  • Code gen −19%
  • 1M → 1M context
  • no file, audio input
GLM 4.7 Z.ai1435.5 tie$0.738
  • Balanced −13%
  • Chat −23%
  • Code gen −26%
  • Agentic −12%
  • 1M → 205K context
  • no image, video, file, audio input
GLM 5 Z.ai1446.3 +11.6$1.58 code gen
  • Code gen −1%
  • 1M → 205K context
  • no image, video, file, audio input
Qwen3.5 397B A17B Qwen1438 tie$1.56 code gen
  • Code gen −2%
  • 1M → 262K context
  • no file, audio input

What this compares, and what it leaves out

  • Quality is LMArena Elo, used under CC BY 4.0 from the official dataset. The 95% confidence interval on a difference between two scores is about ±10.47 points, so a gap smaller than that is marked tie rather than an improvement — see significance bands.
  • 204 further models at this delivery mode carry a price but no independent score. They are absent from the comparison in both directions — unrated is not a zero, and an unmeasured model is neither an alternative nor a worse buy.
  • Retired models are never offered as an alternative, and a model only competes against its own delivery mode: batch trades latency for price, so it is not a like-for-like swap.
  • Nothing here measures latency, throughput, rate limits or how a model behaves on your prompts. Two models with the same index score are not interchangeable.
  • Models with no higher-scoring or cheaper alternative that is no worse on the other axis are on the value frontier. Models with such an alternative are listed here.
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