Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite

google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite-20260721

Google Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is a model from Google that accepts text, image, video, file, and audio inputs and returns text output. It supports tool usage and reasoning and has a context length of 1,048,576 tokens. Pricing is $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens.

  • tool use
  • structured outputs
  • reasoning

At a glance

providergoogle
releasedJul 9, 2026
context1.0M
input / M$0.30

Specifications

What the API gives you

Context window
1.0M tokens
Max output
66K tokens
Input price
$0.30 / 1M tokens
Output price
$2.50 / 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.030 / 1M tokens
Modalities
text, image, video, file, audio → text
Knowledge cutoff
—
Released
Jul 9, 2026

Measured evidence

Public benchmark record

FACTS Grounding
71.2%2026-07-22evaluated 2026-07-22
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI)‡
26% ± 2.62026-08-02high effort, evaluated 2026-08-02
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI)‡
83.3% ± 2.72026-08-06high effort, evaluated 2026-08-06
LiveBench Agentic Coding
45.3%2026-10-18
LiveBench Coding
76.1%2026-10-18
LiveBench Data Analysis
53.3%2026-10-18
LiveBench Instruction Following
67.2%2026-10-18
LiveBench Language
71.8%2026-10-18
LiveBench Math
73.7%2026-10-18
LiveBench Reasoning
60.2%2026-10-18
LMArena Creative Writing
1420 Elo2026-10-15
LMArena Instruction Following
1419 Elo2026-10-15
LMArena Long Query
1435 Elo2026-10-15
LMArena Math
1433 Elo2026-10-15
LMArena Text
1455 Elo2026-10-15
LMArena Text Factuality
1447 Elo2026-10-15
LMArena Vision
1267 Elo2026-10-19
LMArena Vision Diagrams
1292 Elo2026-10-19
LMArena Vision OCR
1282 Elo2026-10-19
LMArena WebDev
1435 Elo2026-10-19
LMArena WebDev Image-to-Web
1448 Elo2026-10-19
OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI)‡
71.1% ± 6.82026-08-06high effort, evaluated 2026-08-06

LMArena data licensed CC-BY-4.0. Aider (Apache-2.0) and SWE-bench (MIT) are open. Design Arena uses blind human preference. ‡ Submitted scaffold plus model result. Compare the harness and effort settings, not only the model name.

Task evidence

How broad is the support?

Each status is exact to this model version and the selected task. Official release claims remain provisional.

  • Best LLM for Competition MathEstablished evidence

    100% of intended weighted task evidence across 4 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Business WritingEstablished evidence

    100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Logic & Problem SolvingEstablished evidence

    100% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Marketing CopyEstablished evidence

    100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Chat & RoleplayEstablished evidence

    100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Creative WritingEstablished evidence

    100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

Show all 40 tasks
  • Best LLM for WritingEstablished evidence

    100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Roleplay & CharacterEstablished evidence

    100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Math & ReasoningEstablished evidence

    100% of intended weighted task evidence across 5 independent sources. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for a General AssistantEstablished evidence

    91% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Code CompletionEstablished evidence

    79% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Document SummarizationEstablished evidence

    65% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for SummarizationEstablished evidence

    65% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Open-Weight LLM for Self-HostingEstablished evidence

    64% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Image UnderstandingEstablished evidence

    61% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Fast SummariesEstablished evidence

    58% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Value LLMEstablished evidence

    58% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Literary TranslationEstablished evidence

    50% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Everyday TranslationEstablished evidence

    50% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for TranslationEstablished evidence

    50% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Grounded RAGEstablished evidence

    48% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Local LLM for CodingEstablished evidence

    47% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Frontend & UIEstablished evidence

    45% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for RAG & Long ContextEstablished evidence

    44% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Cheap LLM for High VolumeEstablished evidence

    40% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Cheapest Capable LLMEstablished evidence

    40% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for CodingEstablished evidence

    38% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for JSON & Schema OutputEstablished evidence

    35% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Structured Data ExtractionEstablished evidence

    35% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Debugging & Code ReviewEstablished evidence

    33% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for OCR & DocumentsProvisional evidence

    45% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or Structured-output eval. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Charts & DiagramsProvisional evidence

    45% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or Structured-output eval. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Vision & DocumentsProvisional evidence

    40% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or Structured-output eval. 4 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results. Official release evidence is also tracked provisionally.

  • Best LLM for Document ParsingProvisional evidence

    37% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or Structured-output eval. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for High-Volume ExtractionProvisional evidence

    21% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Route reliability or Structured-output eval. 1 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results. Official release evidence is also tracked provisionally.

  • Best LLM for Massive ContextProvisional evidence

    20% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or LongBench v2. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Agentic CodingProvisional evidence

    16% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Design Arena Full-stack or Design Arena Web-apps. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Autonomous AgentsProvisional evidence

    13% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Agent or LMArena Agent Task Outcome. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for AI AgentsProvisional evidence

    9% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LMArena Agent. 9 of 9 configured evaluation feeds currently have results. Official release evidence is also tracked provisionally.

  • Best LLM for Computer & Browser UseProvisional evidence

    Official release evidence found; independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LMArena Agent.

Official release evidence · provisional

What the launch material actually says

Verbatim claims from the model provider. These help on launch day but do not count as independent confirmation.

Recommendation coverage

Where this model appears

  1. #8Best LLM for Document Parsing

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