Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Google's cheapest current-generation model at $0.30 input / $2.50 output per 1M tokens ($0.03 cached), released 21 Jul 2026 alongside 3.6 Flash. 1M context. Competitive on high-volume classification and extraction work, though DeepSeek V4 Flash still undercuts it roughly 2x on input and 9x on output.
1M
tokens
33K
tokens
$0.3
per 1M tokens
$2.5
per 1M tokens
192
tokens/sec
Jul 2026
2026-07-21
$1.40
per 1M tokens
56.4
quality per $
Capabilities
Benchmarks
Price vs Quality
Context Window in Context
- ▸ Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite1M
- GPT-4.11M
- Gemini 2.5 Pro1M
- Gemini 2.0 Flash1M
- Llama 4 Maverick1M
- GPT-5.51M
- GPT-5.5 Pro1M
- Claude Opus 4.71M
Not on our gateway yet
Swfte Connect does not hold a key for Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, so there is nothing to run here. Add your own provider key and call it with the same API as every other model in this directory.
curl https://api.swfte.com/agents/v2/gateway/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SWFTE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "google:gemini-3.5-flash-lite",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
}'About Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is a fast AI model by Google, released on July 21, 2026. It supports a context window of 1000K tokens and can generate up to 33K output tokens.
At $0.3 per million input tokens and $2.5 per million output tokens, its blended cost of $1.40/1M tokens puts it in the mid-range pricing tier. Its value score of 56.4 reflects the balance of quality and cost.
Using Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite with Swfte
Access Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite through Swfte Connect, our unified LLM gateway. Connect gives you a single API for 50+ models, with automatic routing, cost optimization, and fallback handling. You can also try Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite in our AI Playground before integrating.