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Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

Google's cheapest, fastest Gemini tier for high-volume tasks; 1M-token context.

Google
Closed
Released Jul 2026

Where it ranks

A
Chat & assistants
Models · Cloud · 1,455 on LMArena Text Arena (overall, style control)
A
Writing
Models · Cloud · 1,436 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control)
C
Coding
Models · Cloud · 1,435 on LMArena WebDev / Code Arena (overall)
A
Image understanding
Models · Cloud · 1,266 on LMArena Vision Arena (overall, style control)

Facts

Vendor: Google
Family: Gemini Flash-Lite
Released: Jul 2026
Weights: Closed: API and apps only
API price: $0.3 in / $2.5 out per 1M tokens (standard paid tier; text/image/video/audio input)
Access: Free tier available
Last verified: 19 Oct 2026

Price from ai.google.dev, 19 Oct 2026.

Benchmark results

Benchmark	Result	Entry on the leaderboard	As of	Source
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index	22	`Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite` Raw value from the page's embedded model data; the site displays it rounded to an integer.	19 Oct 2026	artificialanalysis.ai
Artificial Analysis MMMU-Pro (independent evaluation)	79%	`Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite` Raw fraction 0.7902 from the model data embedded in https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models, converted to percent; rank 33 of 124 entries with an MMMU-Pro result; no last-updated date shown.	19 Oct 2026	artificialanalysis.ai
EQ-Bench Creative Writing v3	1,559	`gemini-3.5-flash-lite` Elo score from the leaderboard data embedded in https://eqbench.com/creative_writing.js (file last modified 2026-09-24); rank 56 of 140; rubric score 16.15.	24 Sep 2026	eqbench.com
LMArena Text Arena (overall, style control)	1,455	`gemini-3.5-flash-lite` From LMArena's official leaderboard-dataset (text_style_control, split latest, category overall, published 2026-10-15), which mirrors https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text. Rank 72; 35851 votes; 95% CI 1450.3-1459.2.	15 Oct 2026	huggingface.co
LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control)	1,436	`gemini-3.5-flash-lite` From LMArena's official leaderboard-dataset (text_style_control, split latest, category creative_writing, published 2026-10-15), which mirrors https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text/creative-writing. Rank 65 of 414; 7473 votes; 95% CI 1428.0-1443.9.	15 Oct 2026	huggingface.co
LMArena Vision Arena (overall, style control)	1,266	`gemini-3.5-flash-lite` From LMArena's official leaderboard-dataset (vision_style_control, split latest, category overall, published 2026-10-09), which mirrors https://arena.ai/leaderboard/vision. Rank 40 of 165; 8381 votes; 95% CI 1257.9-1274.1.	9 Oct 2026	huggingface.co
LMArena WebDev / Code Arena (overall)	1,435	`Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite` From LMArena's official leaderboard-dataset (webdev = Code Arena, split latest, category overall, published 2026-10-18), which mirrors https://arena.ai/leaderboard/webdev. Rank 83; 238 votes; 95% CI 1394.1-1475.8.	18 Oct 2026	huggingface.co

Where you can use it

SOpenRouterRuntimes & gateways · Cloud

Earlier versions

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite · —

Sources