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Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
Google's fastest, lowest-cost Gemini 3.5 model for extraction, routing and subagent tasks.
What is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite?
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the fastest and most cost-effective model in Google's Gemini 3.5 class, released on July 21, 2026.
Google built it for high-volume, latency-sensitive jobs such as translation, classification, document parsing and structured JSON extraction, and for subagents that handle one step of a larger workflow. Google says it follows multi-turn instructions better than Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite and beats Gemini 3 Flash on several agentic and coding tests, and computer use is a built-in tool. Inputs cover text, images, video, audio and PDFs, with a 1M-token context window.
- Provider
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Input
- Text, Image, Video, Audio, PDF
- Reasoning
- Low, medium, high
- Max output
- 65,536 tokens
- Knowledge cutoff
- March 2026
- Released
- Jul 21, 2026
How Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite performs
Published by Google
Results Google reported for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite. Each lab runs its own setup, so compare these with other models only inside the same table.
| Benchmark | Score | Setting |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-Bench Pro (Public) | 54.2% | |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 54% | Terminus-2 harness |
| MLE-Bench | 39.2% | |
| OSWorld-Verified | 74% | |
| CharXiv Reasoning | 74.5% | no tools |
| CharXiv Reasoning | 76.5% | with tools |
| GDM-MRCR v2, 8 needles | 72.2% | 128K, average |
| GDM-MRCR v2, 8 needles | 21.3% | 1M, pointwise |
Source: deepmind.google
On LMArena
People compare two anonymous answers and vote for the better one. Ranked here against the other chat models you can pick in Super Agent.
Text
#23 of 27 in Super Agent
All text prompts, with style control on. #71 of 418 on the full leaderboard, from 35,829 votes.
- 1Claude Opus 5.51509
- 2Claude Fable 51503
- 3Claude Fable 5.11503
- 4Claude Opus 51491
- 5Gemini 3.7 Flash1490
- 23Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite1455
Coding
#24 of 27 in Super Agent
Text prompts that ask for code. #77 of 413 on the full leaderboard, from 9,922 votes.
- 1Claude Fable 51551
- 2Claude Opus 5.51548
- 3GPT-6 Astra1543
- 4Kimi K31539
- 5Claude Fable 5.11538
- 24Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite1502
WebDev
#27 of 27 in Super Agent
Building working web apps in Code Arena. #87 of 149 on the full leaderboard, from 237 votes.
- 1Claude Opus 5.51807
- 2GPT-6 Astra1775
- 3Claude Sonnet 5.51768
- 4GPT-6.1 Sol1749
- 5Claude Fable 5.11743
- 27Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite1434
Math
#25 of 27 in Super Agent
Text prompts with math problems. #91 of 404 on the full leaderboard, from 1,627 votes.
- 1Claude Fable 5.11529
- 2Claude Fable 51521
- 3Claude Opus 51517
- 4GPT-6.1 Sol1513
- 5Claude Opus 5.51512
- 25Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite1443
Hard prompts
#24 of 27 in Super Agent
Complex, multi-part and demanding text prompts. #77 of 418 on the full leaderboard, from 23,792 votes.
- 1Claude Opus 5.51535
- 2Claude Fable 51529
- 3Claude Fable 5.11523
- 4Kimi K31516
- 5Claude Opus 51515
- 24Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite1475
Creative writing
#19 of 27 in Super Agent
Stories, poems and other original writing. #62 of 416 on the full leaderboard, from 7,475 votes.
- 1Claude Opus 5.51520
- 2Claude Fable 51501
- 3Gemini 3.7 Flash1492
- 4Claude Fable 5.11487
- 5Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview1481
- 19Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite1437
Vision
#15 of 23 in Super Agent
Prompts that include images, with style control on. #38 of 167 on the full leaderboard, from 9,238 votes.
- 1Claude Fable 51309
- 2Gemini 3.7 Flash1295
- 3GPT-6.1 Sol1294
- 4Claude Opus 5.51293
- 5Claude Opus 51288
- 15Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite1267
Source: LMArena, leaderboard published . Scores move as new votes come in.
What you can do with Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
The lightest Gemini model in Super Agent
Built for extraction, classification and translation at volume
Ahead of Gemini 3 Flash on SWE-Bench Pro and OSWorld-Verified, Google says
Same input types as the bigger Gemini models
text, images, video, audio and PDFs
How to prompt Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
- Give it one clear job per message.
- Ask for JSON or a fixed format when you want structured output.
- Switch to Gemini 3.6 Flash or a Pro model for complex reasoning.
Where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite fits best
High-volume prompt variations
Short, focused tasks
Quick classification or tagging
Pulling structured data out of documents
How Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite compares
| Model | LMArena text | LMArena coding | Context window | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | 1455#71 | 1502#77 | 1M tokens | Low, medium, high |
| Grok 4.6 | 1456#66 | 1510#60 | 500K tokens | Low to extra high |
| GPT 5.6 Luna | 1453#75 | 1502#76 | 1.05M tokens | Off to max |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | 1458#64 | 1501#79 | 1M tokens | Off, medium, high, extra high |
| GPT-6 Sol | 1459#62 | 1519#38 | 1.05M tokens | Off to max |
Good to know before you start
- Google aims it at speed and cost, so pick a fuller model for hard reasoning
- Only low, medium and high reasoning in Super Agent
Start chatting with Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
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Questions about Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
What is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite for?
High-volume, latency-sensitive tasks like translation, classification and data extraction. Google also suits it to subagents that handle one part of a larger workflow.
What inputs does Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accept?
Text, images, video, audio and PDFs. Its context window is 1M tokens.
Which reasoning levels does Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite support?
Low, medium and high. Super Agent starts it at low.
Where is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite in the model picker?
Under All models.
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