What is Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite?

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is an efficient-tier AI model developed by Google and released in July 2026. It is the lowest-cost tier of the current Gemini lineup.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite available as an open-weight model?

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is a proprietary closed-weight model. Its weights are not publicly available.

What is Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite's context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite supports a 1M-token context window, large enough to hold entire codebases, lengthy technical documents, or extended agentic sessions without truncation.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite available in FlowHunt?

Yes — Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is directly available in FlowHunt. You can use it to build AI agents, automated workflows, chatbots, and document processing pipelines without any additional setup.

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Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is an efficient-tier AI model from Google, released in July 2026. It is a proprietary closed-weight model with a 1M-token context window.

Flash-Lite is the cheapest tier of the current Gemini lineup, below Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.1 Pro. Even at this tier it keeps the 1M-token context window.

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Benchmarks

Each score appears once, with its rank among tracked models and who measured it.

Compared with Efficient peers on the same scale

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Litethis model
Claude Haiku 5.5this model leads on 0 of 3
Qwen3.8-27Bthis model leads on 0 of 4

Verified independent evaluator, counted in the ranking

Overall

AA Intelligence Index

Independent composite of agent, coding, knowledge and science tests by Artificial Analysis (v4).

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Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite 22.2 Claude Haiku 5.5 43.4 Qwen3.8-27B 33.7

#36of 45 Verified

Agents

Terminal-Bench 4.0

Multi-step professional tasks done by an agent in a command-line terminal.

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Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite 1.0% Claude Haiku 5.5 32.8% Qwen3.8-27B 5.6%

#30of 36 Verified

Reasoning

Humanity's Last Exam

Expert-written questions across 100+ subjects, no tools.

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Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite 18.8% Claude Haiku 5.5 44.4% Qwen3.8-27B 33.9%

#36of 44 Verified

GPQA Diamond

Graduate-level science questions that search cannot answer.

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Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite 83.8% Claude Haiku 5.5 Qwen3.8-27B 90.5%

#27of 37 Verified

What to Use Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite For

Cost-Sensitive, High-Volume Workloads

As the lowest-cost Gemini tier, it fits tasks that run at high volume where cost per request matters more than peak capability.

Long-Input Processing

The 1M-token context window lets it take in long documents, large logs, or extended conversation histories in a single prompt.

Lower-Cost Tier in Multi-Model Setups

Pair it with Gemini 3.8 Flash or Gemini 3.1 Pro: route simpler steps to Flash-Lite and keep the larger models for harder ones.

Strengths and limitations

Strengths

Lowest-cost tier in the current Gemini lineup
Very long inputs (1M context)

Limitations

Efficient tier, below the Advanced and Frontier Gemini models
Closed-weight, so it cannot be self-hosted or fine-tuned on private data

Use it in FlowHunt

Use Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite in any flow, next to your own tools and knowledge sources.

1Open a flow, or create one from a template
2Add an AI Agent or Generator component
3Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite in the model selector

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Frequently asked questions

: Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is an efficient-tier AI model developed by Google and released in July 2026. It is the lowest-cost tier of the current Gemini lineup.
: Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is a proprietary closed-weight model. Its weights are not publicly available.
: Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite supports a 1M-token context window, large enough to hold entire codebases, lengthy technical documents, or extended agentic sessions without truncation.
: Yes — Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is directly available in FlowHunt. You can use it to build AI agents, automated workflows, chatbots, and document processing pipelines without any additional setup.

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