Pricing · Google
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Google's gemini-3.5-flash-lite, 1.0M tokens of context. Every number on this page was read off Google's own pricing
page — never estimated, never recalled from memory.
How Google describes it
“Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is a low-latency, cost-effective multimodal model optimized for high-throughput, low-cost execution for subagent tasks and document parsing.”
Pricing
| Input | $0.30 | per 1M tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $2.50 | per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.03 | per 1M tokens · 0.1× the input price |
At the calculator's starting volume, 1M input tokens and 200K output tokens with no cache hits, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite costs $0.80: $0.30 for input and $0.50 for output, at the prices above. Same formula as the calculator; change the volume there.
Where this price sits
$0.30 per 1M input tokens is the 13th cheapest input price of the 67 current models with a verified price on this site, and the 2nd of Google's 11. Output costs 8.3× the input price.
Other current models in the Gemini Flash-Lite family:
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite 1.0M tokens $0.10 in · $0.40 out
Succession
Google names Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite as the replacement for:
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite deprecated shutdown May 7, 2027
Against Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is the earlier version of the same name in this dataset (deprecated). Against Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite has input at $0.30 against $0.25, 1.2× as much; output at $2.50 against $1.50, 1.7× as much; cached input at $0.03 against $0.025, 1.2× as much (per 1M tokens). Its prices were verified October 1, 2026: Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite pricing →
Specifications
| API model id | gemini-3.5-flash-lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||
| Family | Gemini Flash-Lite | |
| Context window | 1.0M tokens | |
| Max output | 66K tokens | |
| Released | July 1, 2026 | |
| Status | Current | |
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite was released on July 1, 2026. It returns up to 66K tokens per response, against a context window of 1.0M tokens.
Questions about Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite pricing
- How much does Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite cost per million tokens?
- $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens, read on Google's official pricing page on October 1, 2026.
- What does a cached input token cost on Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite?
- $0.03 per 1M cached input tokens, 10% of the $0.30 input price.
Verified October 1, 2026 against Google's official pricing page. Confidence: confirmed. No price change recorded for this model. How the data is checked.
Other Google models with a verified price
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Gemini Flash-Lite $0.10 in · $0.40 out
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Gemini Flash $0.30 in · $2.50 out
- Gemini 3.8 Flash Gemini Flash $0.75 in · $3.75 out · promo
- Gemini 3.7 Flash Gemini Flash $0.75 in · $3.75 out · promo
- Gemini 3.6 Flash Gemini Flash $0.75 in · $3.75 out · promo
- Gemini Robotics ER 2 Preview Gemini Robotics $1.00 in · $5.00 out · promo
- Gemini Robotics ER 2 Streaming Preview Gemini Robotics $1.00 in · $5.00 out · promo
- Gemini 2.5 Pro Gemini Pro $1.25 in · $10.00 out
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Gemini Flash $1.50 in · $9.00 out
- Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Gemini Pro $2.00 in · $12.00 out
Cheaper or equally priced alternatives
Current models with an input price at or below $0.30 per 1M tokens.
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Google $0.30 in · $2.50 out
- Codestral Mistral $0.30 in · $0.90 out
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek $0.30 in · $1.20 out
- GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI $0.20 in · $1.20 out
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