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Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is Google's most cost-efficient GA model, optimized for high-volume agentic tasks, translation and simple data processing, with multimodal text, image, video and audio input.
google/gemini-3.5-flash-litehttps://api.aimlapi.com/v1What is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite API?
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is Google's most cost-efficient GA model, optimized for high-volume agentic tasks, translation and simple data processing, with multimodal text, image, video and audio input.
Use Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite for high-volume, latency-sensitive tasks such as translation and document processing.
It is documented as suited to agentic workflows, including subagent tasks and lightweight autonomous workflows that need fast inference at minimal cost.
It is also suited to coding-related work, including simple coding tasks and code-generation workflows.
For multimodal workloads, it is described as useful for complex video reasoning and receipt translation and summarization at scale.
See how Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite compares in intelligence, generation speed, cost per task and latency. Data retrieved Nov 3, 2026.
Compare 6 models available on AI/ML API across 5 independent benchmarks.
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Reasoning across long documents of about 100k tokens.
Python coding tasks drawn from scientific research.
| Usage | Price | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.3 | 1M tokens |
| Output | $2.5 | 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.03 | 1M tokens |
Prices from the AI/ML API price list, checked on Nov 4, 2026.
AI/ML API input and output rates for 5 models, per million tokens.
| Model | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| $0.3 | $2.5 | |
| $0.75 | $3.75 | |
| $0.75 | $3.75 | |
| $1.5 | $7.5 | |
| $2 | $10 |
Give your agent the model details, code and documentation.
export AIMLAPI_KEY="8f2b4c7d9a1e6b3f…"curl 'https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions' \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"model": "google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a haiku about the ocean."
}
]
}'import os
import requests
headers = {
"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['AIMLAPI_KEY']}",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
payload = {
"model": "google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a haiku about the ocean."
}
]
}
response = requests.post("https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", headers=headers, json=payload, timeout=120)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json())const response = await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`,
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"model": "google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a haiku about the ocean."
}
]
}),
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`HTTP ${response.status}`);
console.log(await response.json());Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has a 1,048,576 tokens context window and can return up to 65,536 tokens.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite takes audio, image, text, video as input and returns audio, text.
Use google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite as the model id. Requests go to https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite became available on July 21, 2026.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite costs $0.3 input and $2.5 output per 1M tokens on AI/ML API, billed as you go with no subscription.
Yes, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite can stream responses as they are generated.
Yes, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts image input alongside text.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite was built by Google.
It suits high-volume agentic tasks, translation, and simple data processing where cost efficiency matters.
Not enough information to compare these two models.