Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite pricing and routing profile
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite from Google lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens, with a 1,048,576-token context window. Prices from OpenRouter's catalogue on 2026-09-28.
Tool callingStructured outputReasoning control
Cost per 1,000 requests
| Request shape | List cost |
|---|---|
| Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out) | $0.205 |
| Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out) | $1.60 |
| Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out) | $3.65 |
Before prompt caching. Try your own shape in the cost calculator.
Can Gimbix route to it first?
Not as a first-answer model through OpenRouter: no host returns token log probabilities for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite. It can still be the model Gimbix falls back to when a cheaper model is unsure.
Measured by Gimbix
On 400 real BANKING77 customer messages, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite answered 305 correctly (95% interval 71.8%–80.2%), with 0 invalid answers, at $0.211 per 1,000 requests and a median of 830 ms. See all 22 models.
Who serves Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
| Host | Input / output per 1M | Log probabilities | Uptime, last 30 min |
|---|---|---|---|
| $0.15 / $1.25 | no | 100.0% | |
| Google AI Studio | $0.15 / $1.25 | no | 100.0% |
| Google AI Studio | $0.30 / $2.50 | no | 99.9% |
| $0.30 / $2.50 | no | 100.0% | |
| $0.33 / $2.75 | no | 100.0% | |
| $0.33 / $2.75 | no | — | |
| $0.54 / $4.50 | no | — | |
| Google AI Studio | $0.54 / $4.50 | no | 100.0% |
A host that lists log probabilities may still omit them; Gimbix checks each one before relying on it.
Cheaper models that can answer first
Models priced below Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite that expose a confidence signal. Whether they answer your traffic as well is what a Gimbix pilot measures.
| Model | Input / output per 1M | Cheaper on a chat reply |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | $0.23 / $2.30 | 14% |
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking | $0.20 / $2.40 | 15% |
| Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | $0.26 / $2.08 | 16% |
| Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking | $0.18 / $2.10 | 25% |
| Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct | $0.21 / $1.90 | 26% |
| Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 | $0.26 / $1.56 | 29% |
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Questions
How much does Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite cost?
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens on OpenRouter as of 2026-09-28. A typical chat reply of 2,000 input and 400 output tokens costs about $1.60 per 1,000 requests.
What is the context window of Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite?
1,048,576 tokens.
Can a cheaper model replace Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite?
Sometimes. Gimbix proves it on your own traffic before routing: the cheaper model must match Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite on one half of your requests and make at most three answers worse on the other.