Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite API price, and what each result really costs
Google, listed 21 Jul 2026. Price checked 12 Nov 2026; unchanged since we started tracking it. Source: Google's pricing page. google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite
List price per million tokens
- Input
- $0.30
- Cached input
- $0.03
- Output
- $2.50
- Context window
- 1.05M tokens
Note: Gemini 2.5 Flash auto-routes here from 2026-12-01.
What it costs per task, and per task that works
Six common task shapes with typical token counts. The real cost counts the tries that get redone; the rates are examples, not measurements.
| Task | Per 1,000 tries | Per 1,000 that work, 8 in 10 | Per 1,000 that work, 6 in 10 | Per 1,000 that work, 4 in 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support bot answer3,000 in / 300 out | $1.65 | $2.06 | $2.75 | $4.12 |
| Invoice field extraction2,500 in / 250 out | $1.38 | $1.72 | $2.29 | $3.44 |
| Lead scoring1,200 in / 100 out | $0.61 | $0.76 | $1.02 | $1.53 |
| Email reply draft1,500 in / 400 out | $1.45 | $1.81 | $2.42 | $3.62 |
| Translation900 in / 800 out | $2.27 | $2.84 | $3.78 | $5.68 |
| Search re-ranking4,000 in / 50 out | $1.33 | $1.66 | $2.21 | $3.31 |
Work out your own real cost per resultTest Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite on your own prompt
Compare Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite with
- Gemini 2.5 Flash$0.30 in / $2.50 outSwitch cost
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite$0.25 in / $1.50 outSwitch cost
- Llama 3.3 70B Instruct$0.71 in / $0.71 outSwitch cost
- GPT-4.1 mini$0.40 in / $1.60 outSwitch cost
- GPT-5 mini$0.25 in / $2.00 outSwitch cost
Worked-through switches: Gemini 2.5 Flash → Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite: cost and quality on real tasks, Gemini 3.8 Flash → Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite: cost and quality on real tasks
Questions
How much does the Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite API cost?
$0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens, or $0.03 per million for cached input. Price checked 12 Nov 2026; unchanged since we started tracking it.
What does a result that works really cost with Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite?
A support bot answer (about 3,000 tokens in, 300 out) costs $0.0016 per try. If 6 in 10 work first time, each answer that works really costs $0.0028, because the redone ones were paid for too.