MODEL PROOF
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
TRADE-OFF
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher score and an equal-or-lower price, with capability losses.
Reasoning tokens are billed separately.
GLM 5.3 Flash · Δ score 36.4 points · 72% lower measured price
- no file, audio input
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,435.5 ± 4.95 · 26,165 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 and endpoint terms below.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Googlegoogle-vertex/global/flex Endpoint terms
| $0.150 | $1.25 | undeclared | 99.33% |
| Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studio/flex Endpoint terms
| $0.150 | $1.25 | undeclared | 100.00% |
| Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studio Endpoint terms
| $0.300 | $2.50 | undeclared | 99.99% |
| Googlegoogle-vertex/global Endpoint terms
| $0.300 | $2.50 | undeclared | 99.82% |
| Googlegoogle-vertex/eu Endpoint terms
| $0.330 | $2.75 | undeclared | 100.00% |
| Googlegoogle-vertex/us Endpoint terms
| $0.330 | $2.75 | undeclared | 100.00% |
| Googlegoogle-vertex/global/priority Endpoint terms
| $0.540 | $4.50 | undeclared | 99.96% |
| Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studio/priority Endpoint terms
| $0.540 | $4.50 | undeclared | 99.93% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1435.5default |
|---|
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Capability
| Context window | 1M |
|---|---|
| Max output | 66K |
| Input modes | text, image, video, file, audio |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | always on |
| Open weights | no |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-09-23 |
| Quality data | verified |
| Cross-checked | vendor page |
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?
GLM 5.3 Flash 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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