Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

By Google · released 2026-07-21 (2 weeks) · snapshot 2026-08-07

Off the frontierNot on frontier at launch dayproprietary
Intelligence index
37.40
Cost to run the AA index
$153
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)
$0.30 / $2.50
End-to-end time
12.0s
Better than…

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite on the Pareto frontier, and what beats it?

Off the frontier

No. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort) is at least as smart for the same money or less.

Next step up: GPT-5.6 Luna (max), smarter but dearer.

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort)Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs GPT-5.6 Luna (max)
#ModelCreatorIntelligenceTotal costE2E totalOpenReleasedFrontier
1Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGoogle37.40$15312.0s2026-07-21
2DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort)DeepSeek51.80$72.024.9s2026-07-31Frontier
3GPT-5.6 Luna (max)OpenAI52.30$172106.4s2026-07-09Frontier

Open in the picker Daily check URL: 200 on the frontier, 409 once beaten

At a glance

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite today

Time to first answer10.6s
Output speed376 tok/s
Input modalitiesNot reported
0204060$10$20$50$100$200$500$1k$2k$5kCost to run the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (USD, log scale)Intelligence IndexClaude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) (Anthropic): intelligence 29.90, $471Claude 4.5 Sonnet (Reasoning) (Anthropic): intelligence 37.40, $1037Claude Fable 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Opus 4.8 Fallback) (Anthropic): intelligence 62.10, $5455Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) (Anthropic): intelligence 55.00, $3743Claude Opus 4.8 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) (Anthropic): intelligence 57.30, $3752Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort) (Anthropic): intelligence 52.50, $555Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) (Anthropic): intelligence 48.40, $3355Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) (Anthropic): intelligence 55.30, $4011Claude Sonnet 5 (Non-reasoning, High Effort) (Anthropic): intelligence 42.60, $416DeepSeek R1 (Jan '25) (DeepSeek): intelligence 18.60, $403DeepSeek V3 (Dec '24) (DeepSeek): intelligence 14.20, $20.0DeepSeek V3 0324 (DeepSeek): intelligence 15.20, $35.2DeepSeek V4 Flash (Reasoning, High Effort) (DeepSeek): intelligence 39.00, $58.5DeepSeek V4 Flash (Reasoning, Max Effort) (DeepSeek): intelligence 42.10, $104DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, High Effort) (DeepSeek): intelligence 43.70, $109DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, Max Effort) (DeepSeek): intelligence 45.30, $176Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google): intelligence 25.90, $611Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (Google): intelligence 25.60, $93.8Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (Google): intelligence 47.70, $812Gemini 3.5 Flash (high) (Google): intelligence 52.00, $1042Gemini 3.6 Flash (high) (Google): intelligence 51.60, $727Gemma 4 26B A4B (Reasoning) (Google): intelligence 26.10, $59.5Gemma 4 31B (Non-reasoning) (Google): intelligence 22.30, $32.8GLM-4.6 (Reasoning) (Z AI): intelligence 29.30, $314GLM-4.7 (Reasoning) (Z AI): intelligence 34.50, $607GLM-5.1 (Reasoning) (Z AI): intelligence 41.00, $676GLM-5.2 (max) (Z AI): intelligence 52.60, $904GPT-4.1 mini (OpenAI): intelligence 14.80, $64.2GPT-4.1 nano (OpenAI): intelligence 9.60, $36.7GPT-5 (high) (OpenAI): intelligence 35.30, $789GPT-5 mini (high) (OpenAI): intelligence 25.80, $130GPT-5.1 (high) (OpenAI): intelligence 37.50, $782GPT-5.4 (xhigh) (OpenAI): intelligence 53.10, $2183GPT-5.4 mini (xhigh) (OpenAI): intelligence 40.90, $1096GPT-5.4 nano (xhigh) (OpenAI): intelligence 39.70, $277GPT-5.5 (high) (OpenAI): intelligence 54.70, $1721GPT-5.5 (low) (OpenAI): intelligence 44.50, $374GPT-5.5 (medium) (OpenAI): intelligence 51.40, $939GPT-5.5 (Non-reasoning) (OpenAI): intelligence 35.80, $212GPT-5.5 (xhigh) (OpenAI): intelligence 56.30, $2778GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) (OpenAI): intelligence 29.20, $423GPT-5.6 Luna (xhigh) (OpenAI): intelligence 50.10, $95.1GPT-5.6 Sol (low) (OpenAI): intelligence 50.70, $344GPT-5.6 Sol (max) (OpenAI): intelligence 60.90, $2823GPT-5.6 Sol (medium) (OpenAI): intelligence 55.60, $580GPT-5.6 Sol (Non-reasoning) (OpenAI): intelligence 41.90, $240GPT-5.6 Terra (high) (OpenAI): intelligence 50.10, $395GPT-5.6 Terra (low) (OpenAI): intelligence 41.30, $130GPT-5.6 Terra (max) (OpenAI): intelligence 56.60, $1390GPT-5.6 Terra (medium) (OpenAI): intelligence 46.80, $192GPT-5.6 Terra (Non-reasoning) (OpenAI): intelligence 34.60, $98.5GPT-5.6 Terra (xhigh) (OpenAI): intelligence 52.80, $590gpt-oss-120b (high) (OpenAI): intelligence 24.10, $94.6gpt-oss-120b (low) (OpenAI): intelligence 14.90, $24.1gpt-oss-20b (high) (OpenAI): intelligence 15.20, $32.7Grok 4.3 (high) (SpaceXAI): intelligence 37.90, $288Grok 4.3 (Non-reasoning) (SpaceXAI): intelligence 25.00, $201Grok Build 0.1 0616 (SpaceXAI): intelligence 40.70, $377Hy3 (Tencent): intelligence 42.20, $93.6HyperNova 60B 2605 (Multiverse Computing): intelligence 18.30, $37.5Inkling Small (Thinking Machines): intelligence 41.20, $193Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) (Kimi): intelligence 36.00, $304Kimi K2.6 (Kimi): intelligence 45.10, $841Kimi K2.7 Code (Kimi): intelligence 43.00, $545Kimi K3 (low) (Kimi): intelligence 48.30, $283Kimi K3 (max) (Kimi): intelligence 59.70, $2425Ling-3.0-flash (InclusionAI): intelligence 37.80, $72.7Llama 4 Maverick (Meta): intelligence 14.50, $35.9Llama 4 Scout (Meta): intelligence 10.30, $11.6Magistral Medium 1.2 (Mistral): intelligence 18.00, $920Magistral Small 1.2 (Mistral): intelligence 11.50, $301Mercury 2 (Inception): intelligence 21.90, $97.5MiMo-V2.5 (Xiaomi): intelligence 38.00, $25.2MiMo-V2.5-Pro (Xiaomi): intelligence 42.90, $98.9MiniMax-M3 (MiniMax): intelligence 45.40, $205Ministral 3 14B (Mistral): intelligence 11.20, $119Ministral 3 3B (Mistral): intelligence 7.10, $91.6Ministral 3 8B (Mistral): intelligence 9.00, $114Mistral Large 3 (Mistral): intelligence 15.90, $71.1Mistral Medium 3.1 (Mistral): intelligence 14.70, $134Mistral Medium 3.5 (Mistral): intelligence 30.40, $883Mistral Small 3.1 (Mistral): intelligence 14.90, $29.8Mistral Small 3.2 (Mistral): intelligence 10.70, $129Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) (Mistral): intelligence 19.70, $87.7Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) (NVIDIA): intelligence 38.30, $534NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) (NVIDIA): intelligence 14.50, $39.4NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning) (NVIDIA): intelligence 25.70, $254Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning) (Alibaba): intelligence 19.90, $610Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 (Reasoning) (Alibaba): intelligence 14.60, $152Qwen3 Coder Next (Alibaba): intelligence 21.30, $250Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Reasoning) (Alibaba): intelligence 16.90, $400Qwen3.5 122B A10B (Non-reasoning) (Alibaba): intelligence 28.20, $221Qwen3.5 122B A10B (Reasoning) (Alibaba): intelligence 32.80, $444Qwen3.5 35B A3B (Non-reasoning) (Alibaba): intelligence 24.30, $228Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) (Alibaba): intelligence 34.30, $527Qwen3.5 9B (Reasoning) (Alibaba): intelligence 21.80, $240Qwen3.6 27B (Non-reasoning) (Alibaba): intelligence 31.30, $359Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) (Alibaba): intelligence 37.70, $667Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) (Alibaba): intelligence 32.10, $334Qwen3.6 Plus (Alibaba): intelligence 40.50, $526Qwen3.7 Max (Alibaba): intelligence 46.70, $1064Qwen3.7 Plus (Alibaba): intelligence 39.40, $322Qwen3.8 Max (Alibaba): intelligence 58.10, $1741Solar Pro 3 (Upstage): intelligence 14.50, $158Step 3.7 Flash (StepFun): intelligence 30.90, $320GPT-5.6 Luna (Non-reasoning) (OpenAI): intelligence 26.80, $10.2GPT-5.6 Luna (low) (OpenAI): intelligence 33.90, $13.7GPT-5.6 Luna (medium) (OpenAI): intelligence 38.90, $21.1GPT-5.6 Luna (high) (OpenAI): intelligence 47.00, $55.0DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort) (DeepSeek): intelligence 51.80, $72.0GPT-5.6 Luna (max) (OpenAI): intelligence 52.30, $172Muse Spark 1.1 (xhigh) (Meta): intelligence 53.20, $547Grok 4.5 (high) (SpaceXAI): intelligence 55.80, $579Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh) (Meta): intelligence 56.80, $639GPT-5.6 Sol (high) (OpenAI): intelligence 57.30, $955Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort) (Anthropic): intelligence 58.60, $1116GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh) (OpenAI): intelligence 59.00, $1525Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort) (Anthropic): intelligence 61.50, $1974Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Xhigh Effort) (Anthropic): intelligence 62.50, $2909Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) (Anthropic): intelligence 63.10, $3836Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (Google): intelligence 37.40, $153Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGPT-5.6 Luna (Non-reasoning)DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max)GPT-5.6 Luna (max)Claude Opus 5 (max)
Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteSame release, other effort levelsToday's Pareto frontierEvery other model
Up and left is better. Dotted line: today's Pareto frontier. Hover a point for its numbers, click it for its page.

Intelligence: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Cost: total cost to run that benchmark, so reasoning tokens count. API id: gemini-3-5-flash-lite.

Matchup

Compare head to head

Suggested: what beats it, its effort levels, and frontier models near its price.

Compare Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite with measured models

Release

What the Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite release did to the frontier on 2026-07-21

None of its 1 effort levels reached the frontier at launch.

Closest miss: Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, 1.5 points below GPT-5.6 Luna (medium) at 7.3× the cost.

Release page: launch-day frontier and every effort level

Deciding

Should you use Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite?

Should you use Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite?

Only when it fits your setup: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort) is at least as smart for the same money or less, so Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is off the value frontier today.

What is better and cheaper than Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite?

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort) — at least as smart for the same money or less.

How much does Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite cost?

$0.30/$2.50 in/out per 1M tokens, and $153 to run the full Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the honest all-in number for reasoning models.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite on the Pareto frontier?

No: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort) beats it on intelligence, cost, or both.

Frontier membership by axis pair

Other axis pairs where Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is Pareto-optimal.

Y axisX axisOn the frontier
AA intelligence indexAA total cost to run (USD)
AA intelligence indexEnd-to-end total seconds
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