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Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

GoogleReleased 21 Jul 2026ClosedFlagshipDate verified
142131–154Index score#83 of 229 models
3/ 8Core tests taken3 of 6 areas · plus 9 anchor tests
−42Versus the frontier at releasebest then: Claude Fable 5
$0.30/ $2.5Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
1.05MContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

o3 reached this score 15 months earlier.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeevidence
GPQA Diamond
83%
Humanity's Last Exam
no result
Mathsevidence
FrontierMath T1-3
26%
Codingevidence
SWE-bench Verified
no result
Terminal-Bench
no result
Agentsevidence
APEX-Agents
no result
Novel problemsevidence
ARC-AGI-2
10%
Long tasksno evidence yet
METR time horizon
no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

What others sayrank on each leaderboard

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

Best attop three among current models

Not in the top three among current models on any category we track.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

Where to use itprices checked 1 Oct 2026

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Facts and sources

Released21 Jul 2026
Announcementblog.google ↗
Release entryGemini 3.6 Flash + 3.5 Flash-Lite
Scored asGemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Artificial Analysis index22
Output speed326 tokens/s
Hugging Faceclosed weights

Google releasesaround this one