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# Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: $0.300/M in, $2.50/M out. Independent capability scores, and alternatives compared under recorded workload and capability requirements.

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MODEL PROOF

# Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite

Google · 21 Jul 2026 · proprietary

 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

TRADE-OFF

## A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher score and an equal-or-lower price, with capability losses.

 **$0.850** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out

Reasoning tokens are billed separately.

[MiMo-V2.6-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/) · Δ score 56.3 points · 36% lower measured price

 - no file input

Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026

 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) [Vendor cross-check](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing) [LMArena · cc-by-4.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset) Independent LMArena score 1,434.7 ± 4.47 · 35,763 votes
 Context window 1.05M
 Maximum output 65.54K
 Input modalities text, image, video, file, audio
 Output modalities text
 Published input price $0.300 / 1M tokens
 Published output price $2.50 / 1M tokens
 Pricing kind fixed

Inspect [complete billing conditions](#billing-details) and endpoint terms below.

Price from Google: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate.

Cheaper right now: $0.425/M at Google — delivery tier (flex) It does not pass the like-for-like test, so it never sets a rank.

 Every price dimension · USD per million tokens

| Input | $0.300 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $2.50 /M |
| Cached input | $0.030 /M |
| Cache write | $0.083 /M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown /M |
| Reasoning | $2.50 /M |
| Web search | $0.014 /call |
| Batch discount | 50% |

**Reasoning tokens are billed separately** at $2.50/M, on top of output. Its share of your bill depends on the reasoning tokens used.

### Who sells it

The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.

 8 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions

Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.

| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Seller Google google-vertex/global/flex Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.015 Context limit 1,048,576 tokens Output limit 65,536 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.150 | Output $1.25 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.99% |
| Seller Google AI Studio google-ai-studio/flex Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.015 Context limit 1,048,576 tokens Output limit 65,536 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.150 | Output $1.25 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.98% |
| Seller Google AI Studio google-ai-studio Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.030 Context limit 1,048,576 tokens Output limit 65,536 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.95% | Input $0.300 | Output $2.50 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.95% |
| Seller Google google-vertex/global Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.030 Context limit 1,048,576 tokens Output limit 65,536 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.98% | Input $0.300 | Output $2.50 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.95% |
| Seller Google google-vertex/eu Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.033 Context limit 1,048,576 tokens Output limit 65,536 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.330 | Output $2.75 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 100.00% |
| Seller Google google-vertex/us Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.033 Context limit 1,048,576 tokens Output limit 65,536 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes Unknown | Input $0.330 | Output $2.75 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.83% |
| Seller Google google-vertex/global/priority Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.054 Context limit 1,048,576 tokens Output limit 65,536 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.540 | Output $4.50 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.95% |
| Seller Google AI Studio google-ai-studio/priority Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.054 Context limit 1,048,576 tokens Output limit 65,536 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.540 | Output $4.50 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.95% |

### Independent scores

| LMArena Elo | 1434.7 default |
| --- | --- |

LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.

### Capability

| Context window | 1M |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 65K |
| Input modes | text, image, video, file, audio |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | always on |
| Open weights | no |

### Provenance

| Price source | [openrouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | verified |
| Cross-checked | [vendor page](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing) |

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is a high-efficiency model from Google with upgraded agentic capabilities. It is suited for subagents that execute focused tasks within complex, multi-agent workflows.

## Questions this page answers

 What does Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite cost?

$0.300/M in, $2.50/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.

 Does Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite have an independent quality score?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has an LMArena score in this catalogue.

 What beats Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite?

MiMo-V2.6-Pro has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price, with capability trade-offs.

 Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite?

No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.

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## Related

 - Higher score and cheaper, with a named trade [MiMo-V2.6-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/)
- Side by side [Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite](/compare/google__gemini-2.5-flash-lite--vs--google__gemini-3.5-flash-lite/)
- Nearby on the capability axis [GLM 4.7](/models/z-ai__glm-4.7/)
- Same vendor [Gemma 4 31B](/models/google__gemma-4-31b-it/)
- Google models [Google](/providers/google/)
- Where this model appears [effort](/effort/)
- Nearby on the capability axis [Gemma 4 26B A4B](/models/google__gemma-4-26b-a4b-it/)
- Same vendor [Gemini 2.5 Flash](/models/google__gemini-2.5-flash/)
- Where this model appears [traps](/traps/)
- Nearby on the capability axis [Qwen3.6 Plus](/models/qwen__qwen3.6-plus/)
- Same vendor [Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview](/models/google__gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview/)
- Where this model appears [significance](/significance/)

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