Model Release Radar
Price/capability frontier position, benchmark scores, and community signal
Model Release Radar
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
google·closed weights·Proprietary·released Tuesday, Jul 21, 2026
USD per million tokens via OpenRouter, Google AI Studio (google-ai-studio). Checked 2026-10-17 00:21 UTC.
| Token type | USD /1M |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.3 |
| Output | $2.5 |
| Cache read | $0.03 |
| Cache write (default) | Unverified basis |
| Cache write (1 hour) | Unknown |
Cache-write rates with a verified basis replace the ordinary input charge. Unknown rates are never treated as zero.
- Behind frontier AA coding index (blended per-1M-token price, 3:1 input/output; not a measured per-task cost) - Qwen3.6 Plus, Qwen3.7 Plus, MiMo-V2.5-Pro, MiniMax-M3, GPT-5.6 Luna are priced the same or lower and at least as capable.
- Behind frontier AA intelligence index (blended per-1M-token price, 3:1 input/output; not a measured per-task cost) - Qwen3.6 Plus, Qwen3.7 Plus, MiMo-V2.6-Pro, MiMo-V2.5-Pro, MiniMax-M3 are priced the same or lower and at least as capable.
This model has not been measured on DeepSWE (or any other benchmark with a real measured per-task cost) yet, so no cost/capability chart is drawn. Its Artificial Analysis benchmark scores are listed below.
Measured cost per task (DeepSWE)
This model has not been measured on DeepSWE (or any other benchmark with a real measured per-task cost) yet.
Artificial Analysis scores
Artificial Analysis scores describe capability. Compare them against estimated token spend with your cache mix; these estimates are not measured task costs.
| Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|
| AA intelligence index | 22.2 |
| AA coding index | 49.3 |
| Variant | Coding Elo | Overall Elo | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rating | 1,453 | 1,435 | 35,851 |