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title: "Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite — LLM-TEST.com"
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summary: "The cheapest, fastest member of the Gemini line, tuned for simple high-volume tasks at minimal cost. Keeps the large context window while trimming reasoning depth."
last_updated: "2026-11-05"
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# Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

_Google · Budget_

The cheapest, fastest member of the Gemini line, tuned for simple high-volume tasks at minimal cost. Keeps the large context window while trimming reasoning depth.

## At a glance

- Released: May 12, 2026
- Provider: Google
- Context window: 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output: 64,000 tokens
- Modalities: Text + image → text
- Knowledge cutoff: October 2025
- API model ID: `gemini-3.5-flash-lite`
- License: Proprietary (API only)

## Pricing

- Standard: $0.30 input / $2.50 output per 1M tokens
- Example: a 1,500-token prompt + 650-token answer ≈ $0.002 (standard)

## Best use cases

- **Bulk classification** — Routes, labels and filters very large volumes of text at the lowest per-token cost.
- **Lightweight assistants** — Backs simple in-product helpers where speed and price matter most.
- **Preprocessing** — Cleans, normalizes and tags data before handing it to a stronger model.

## Strengths

- Lowest cost in the family
- Very fast
- Large context for its price

## Limitations

- Limited reasoning ability
- No audio or video input

## Where to get access

- Consumer app: Gemini app (web, Android, iOS) — https://gemini.google.com
- API: Google AI Studio — https://aistudio.google.com
- Also available: Google Vertex AI
- Docs: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs

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