Compare Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite from Google and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (free) from Google on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteGemini 3.5 Flash Lite (free)Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is a low-latency, cost-effective multimodal model optimized for high-throughput, low-cost execution for subagent tasks and document parsing. The model supports text, image, video, audio, and PDF inputs, and is designed for high-volume agentic workflows, simple data extraction, and applications where latency and API cost are the primary constraints.
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite free version: Free model resources are limited and provided only for trial use; stability cannot be guaranteed, and you may encounter 429 errors during use. If you need to use it in a production environment and require unlimited concurrency with absolute stability, please choose the official version:gemini-3.5-flash-lite.
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Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 1.2s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts 1,048,576 and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (free) accepts 1,048,576 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 65,536 tokens on Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 65,536 tokens on Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (free).
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite at 153.7 tok/s and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (free) at 124.0 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts text, image, audio and video input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search and long context; Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (free) accepts text, image, audio and video input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search and long context.
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