sub-dollar multimodal razonamiento motor tuned para masivo empresarial traffic y en tiempo real subagents.
Technical Specifications
- Provider
- Category
- lightweight
- Release Date
- 2026-07
- Batch API Discount
- 50% off async batch
- Consumer Subscription
- $20 / month
- Reasoning Effort Control
- Configurable (Low / Med / High)
- Structured Outputs
- Yes
- Output Modalities
- text
- Official Documentation
- Visit Official Docs ↗
Data Privacy, Licensing & Deployment Governance
Official Provider Release Intelligence, API Quotas & Agentic Specs
- Official API Model ID (SDK String)
- models/gemini-3-5-flash-lite
- Supported SDK & API Protocol
- Google Gemini API (generateContent) + OpenAI-Compatible SDK
- Lifecycle & Deprecation Status
- Active GA (Guaranteed support through 2028+)
- Production Rate Limits (RPM & TPM)
- 10,000 – 30,000 RPM (Tier 5 Enterprise) · 4,000,000 – 10,000,000 TPM
- Long-Context Pricing Tier (>128K / >200K)
- Standard rate up to 200K tokens; 2x input/output tier above 200K tokens
- Prompt Cache Write & TTL Policy
- Implicit + Explicit Context Caching at $0.1/1M with configurable TTL
- Computer Use & Browser GUI Agent
- Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops)
- MCP & Parallel Tool Calling
- Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
- Web Search Grounding & Code Sandbox
- Built-in Google Search Grounding + Managed Python Code Execution Sandbox
- Fine-Tuning & Distillation Support
- Vertex AI Supervised Adapter Tuning & Context Distillation
- Multimodal Tokenization Billing
- Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile)
- Weights Precision & Quantization
- Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster)
- Minimum GPU VRAM Requirement
- Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API)
- Supported Inference Engines
- Managed Google Cloud API
- System Card & Safety Framework
- Google DeepMind Frontier Safety Framework Verified
- Enterprise Compliance (SOC2 / HIPAA / ZDR)
- SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Cost, Context, Hardware & API Integration
For single-user chat, a $20/mo subscription caps your bill below this API volume.
Break-even point: ~222 requests/day equals $20/month.
Same Monthly Workload Cost Across Popular Reference Models
Live Prompt Paste Tokenizer & Cost Counter
Paste real system instructions, JSON schemas, or code to measure BPE token counts across tokenizers.
Hybrid Prompt Routing Cascade Simulator
Route routine queries to a fast lightweight model ($0.15/1M) and escalate only complex reasoning turns to Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite:
Benchmark Scores & 6-Axis Capability Radar
- MMLU-Pro
- 81.2%
- HumanEval
- 89.5%
- Chatbot Arena Elo
- 1375pts
Strengths
- Economical alto-volumen precios
- rápido ejecución con bajo latencia
- 1M ventana de contexto
Limitations & Trade-offs
- menos adept un profundo matemático proofs
- texto y visión solo (no audio entrada)
Editorial Assessment
costo-effective, confiable caballo de batalla para scalable subagent architectures.
Best for: autónomo subagent bucles, resumen, y datos transformation
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Frequently Asked Questions about Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
How much does the Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite API cost per 1M tokens?+
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite by Google is priced at $0.4 per 1M input tokens and $2 per 1M output tokens. With prompt caching enabled, cached input tokens cost $0.1 per 1M tokens, and asynchronous Batch API requests receive a 50% discount.
Should I use a $20/month subscription or the Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite pay-as-you-go API?+
A flat $20/month consumer subscription is predictable for daily interactive chat and manual coding. However, if you are building software, running automated workflows, or sending low-to-moderate volume with prompt caching enabled, the pay-as-you-go API is typically far more cost-effective and offers higher rate limits without manual UI caps.
How many words and pages fit in Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite's context window?+
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite features a 1.0M tokens context window, which equals approximately 786,432 English words or ~2,097 standard single-spaced pages in a single prompt. Its maximum output generation per turn is 32,768 tokens.
Can I run Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite locally on my own GPU (Open Weights)?+
No, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is a proprietary closed-weights model hosted by Google. It cannot be downloaded for local GPU execution and must be accessed via Google's official API or cloud platform.
Does Google train on data sent to the Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite API, and is commercial use allowed?+
API payloads are excluded from model training by default. License tier: Proprietary Commercial API (Google Terms). Full commercial ownership of generated outputs. Supported deployment channels include: Google AI Studio API, Google Cloud Vertex AI.
How does Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite perform on coding and reasoning benchmarks?+
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite achieves a composite Intelligence Index of 69/100, scoring N/A% on SWE-bench Verified, N/A% on GPQA Diamond, 81.2% on MMLU-Pro, and 1375 pts on Chatbot Arena Elo.
What is Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite best used for?+
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is best suited for: autónomo subagent bucles, resumen, y datos transformation. Assessment: costo-effective, confiable caballo de batalla para scalable subagent architectures.
Google Family Lineage, Routing Tiers & Upgrade Path
Step down to a lighter sibling for high-volume routing or step up to Google's flagship reasoning tier:
Gemini 4 Argon
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Gemini 3.7 Flash
Gemini 3.6 Flash
Gemini Omni Flash
Gemini 3.5 Live Translate
AI Glossary & Architecture Concepts
View full glossary →Key machine learning concepts and benchmarks relevant to Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite:
La unidad básica de texto que procesa un modelo de lenguaje, que normalmente equivale a 3 o 4 caracteres o aproximadamente 0,75 palabras. Por ejemplo, una frase típica se divide en varios tokens.
Un conjunto estandarizado de pruebas para evaluar y comparar objetivamente las capacidades de distintos modelos de IA en tareas como programación (SWE-bench) o matemáticas avanzadas (AIME).
La cantidad máxima de tokens que un modelo puede considerar a la vez, incluyendo tanto la entrada que lee como la salida que genera. Una ventana de 1.000.000 de tokens puede procesar unas 750.000 palabras en una sola petición.
Un modelo de IA entrenado para invertir cómputo adicional en pensar y validar hipótesis lógicas antes de responder, diseñado para problemas complejos de ingeniería y matemáticas.
Una técnica de razonamiento paso a paso donde el modelo genera pensamientos intermedios antes de formular la respuesta final, mejorando radicalmente la resolución de problemas matemáticos y lógicos.
La capacidad de un modelo de detectar la necesidad de una función externa y emitir argumentos JSON estructurados para ejecutar API, búsquedas web o consultas a bases de datos.
Las puntuaciones de benchmarks, precios por token y límites de tasa evolucionan rápidamente. Verifique siempre las especificaciones actuales en la documentación oficial del proveedor.
Fuentes: Google Cloud Vertex AI Pricing↗