gemini-3.5-flash-lite API pricing
Google Gemini charges $0.3 per million input tokens and $2.5 per million output tokens for gemini-3.5-flash-lite, and $0.03 per million cached input tokens. A typical request of 1,000 input and 500 output tokens costs $0.00155, or $0.000775 through the batch API.
Prices updated October 28, 2026
Input / 1M tokens
$0.3
Output / 1M tokens
$2.5
Cached input / 1M tokens
$0.03
Typical request
$0.00155
gemini-3.5-flash-lite price per million tokens
| Token type | Standard | Batch API |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.3 | $0.15 |
| Cached input | $0.03 | $0.02 |
| Output | $2.5 | $1.25 |
gemini-3.5-flash-lite supports a 1.05M-token context window, up to 65.5K output tokens, image input, tool calling and reasoning.
What gemini-3.5-flash-lite costs per request
| Request | 1 request | 1,000 requests | 1M requests |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message (300 in, 200 out) | $0.00059 | $0.59 | $590.00 |
| Typical request (1K in, 500 out) | $0.00155 | $1.55 | $1,550.00 |
| Long document summary (20K in, 1K out) | $0.0085 | $8.50 | $8,500.00 |
| Coding agent step (50K in, 2K out) | $0.02 | $20.00 | $20,000.00 |
At standard rates. A token is about 4 characters of English text, so 1,000 tokens is roughly 750 words. Google Gemini counts tokens with its own tokenizer, so the same text can be a different number of tokens.
Models with a similar price
| Model | Provider | Input / 1M | Cached input / 1M | Output / 1M | Typical request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gpt-5-mini | OpenAI | $0.25 | $0.025 | $2 | $0.00125 |
| mistral-large-3 | Mistral | $0.5 | $0.05 | $1.5 | $0.00125 |
| mistral-large-2512 | Mistral | $0.5 | $0.05 | $1.5 | $0.00125 |
| gemini-2.5-flash | Google Gemini | $0.3 | $0.03 | $2.5 | $0.00155 |
| deepseek-r1 | DeepSeek | $0.55 | $0.14 | $2.19 | $0.00164 |
| gemini-3-flash-preview | Google Gemini | $0.5 | $0.05 | $3 | $0.002 |
| grok-build-0.1 | xAI | $1 | $0.2 | $2 | $0.002 |
| grok-code-fast | xAI | $1 | $0.2 | $2 | $0.002 |
Other Google Gemini models
- gemini-2.5-flash $0.3 / $2.5
- gemini-2.5-flash-lite $0.1 / $0.4
- gemini-2.5-pro $1.25 / $10
- gemini-3-flash-preview $0.5 / $3
- gemini-3.1-flash-lite $0.25 / $1.5
- gemini-3.1-pro-preview $2 / $12
- gemini-3.5-flash $1.5 / $9
- gemini-3.6-flash $0.75 / $3.75
- gemini-3.7-flash $0.75 / $3.75
- gemini-3.8-flash $0.75 / $3.75
- gemini-4-argon $2 / $10
- gemini-omni-1.1-flash $1.5 / $9
Source: Google Gemini pricing.