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Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is a high-efficiency model from Google with upgraded agentic capabilities. It is suited for subagents that execute focused tasks within complex, multi-agent workflows.

Anyone in the Project can @-mention Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite with the team's shared context - pooled credits, one chat, one memory.

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Verdict

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite trades reasoning depth for speed and cost, making it Google's cheapest multimodal option at $0.30/Mtok input. The 1M token context window handles large documents and video files, but expect weaker performance on complex reasoning compared to full Flash or Pro models. Reach for this when you need fast, cheap multimodal processing and can tolerate occasional accuracy drops on nuanced tasks.

Best for

High-volume content moderation pipelines
Quick image and video captioning
Cost-sensitive document extraction
Rapid prototyping with multimodal inputs
Simple classification across text and images

Strengths

At $0.30/Mtok input, this is Google's most affordable model with vision and audio support. The 1M token window lets you process hour-long video transcripts or multi-hundred-page PDFs in a single call. Multimodal capability at this price point makes it viable for high-throughput pipelines where per-request cost matters more than perfect accuracy. Latency is competitive with other Flash-tier models.

Trade-offs

No public benchmarks yet, but Flash Lite models historically sacrifice 10-15 percentage points on MMLU and reasoning evals compared to their full counterparts. Expect weaker chain-of-thought performance and more frequent hallucinations on ambiguous prompts. The $2.50/Mtok output price climbs quickly if you generate long responses. For tasks requiring careful analysis or multi-step logic, standard Gemini Flash or Pro will outperform despite higher cost.

Specifications

Provider: google
Category: llm
Context length: 1,048,576 tokens
Max output: 65,536 tokens
Modalities: text, image, video, file, audio
License: proprietary
Released: 2026-07-21

Pricing

Input: $0.30/Mtok
Output: $2.50/Mtok
Model ID: google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite

Per-token prices show what the model costs upstream. On Switchy your team draws from one shared org credit pool - one plan, one balance for everyone.

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Seats5 peopleMessages / seat / day80Avg turn size2 ktokOutput share30 %

Estimated monthly spend

$16.90

17.6M tokens / month
5 seats · 80 msgs/day

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Providers

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Performance

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Benchmarks

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Starter prompts

Extract Invoice Line Items

Extract all line items from this invoice image as JSON. Include item description, quantity, unit price, and total. Return only valid JSON with no explanation.

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Moderate User-Uploaded Images

Review this image for policy violations: nudity, violence, hate symbols, or spam. Respond with 'APPROVED' or 'FLAGGED: [reason]' in under 10 words.

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Summarize Meeting Recording

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Classify Support Tickets

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Generate Alt Text for Images

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