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Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
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ClosedGenerally available1M contextTextImageAudioVideo
Pick this when
Classification, extraction, and cheap multimodal at extreme volume.
Skip when
Anything that needs thinking. Use 3.7 Flash or Luna instead.
The firehose. Useful. Not clever.
Price
- Input / 1M
- $0.15
- Output / 1M
- $1.25
- Measured task
- $0.08
High-throughput lane. Not a reasoning model.
Shape
- Context
- 1M
- Max output
- 32K
- Released
- 2026-07
- Tools
- Yes
- Reasoning
- No
Scores
Intelligence index42
GPQA Diamond61
Terminal-Bench 2.138
Agentic index17
- Arena
- —
- Speed
- 420/s
- GPQA
- 61.4%
- Term.
- 38.2%
- AA Index. The single number most people mean by “how smart.” It is a blend, so a specialist can lose here and still win the job you care about.
- GPQA. A clean test of hard reasoning. PhD experts sit around 65%. It says little about writing, tools, or taste.
- Term.. Closest public proxy for coding agents that live in a terminal. A high index score with a weak terminal score is a warning.
- Arena. Captures taste and usefulness that unit tests miss. Sample size varies by model, so treat gaps under ~100 Elo as noise.
Google · Mountain View. Gemini is natively multimodal. 3.7 Flash is the current pick for mixed media and long documents. 3.5 Pro is still slipping.