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Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is a Google language model released Jul 21, 2026; Google's newest language model in our dataset is Gemini 4 Argon. Proprietary, API access only. Google's low-latency, cost-effective Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, generally available since Jul 21, 2026 as a low-latency subagent option for high-volume automation. Verified against vendor sources on Oct 26, 2026.
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- ReleasedJul 21, 2026
- Context window1.05M1,048,576 tokens
- Max output66K65,536 tokens
- LicenceProprietaryProprietary (API)
Key facts
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | n/a | |
| Released | Jul 21, 2026 | source |
| Status | generally available | n/a |
| API id | gemini-3.5-flash-lite | source |
| Context window | 1,048,576 tokens (1.05M) | source |
| Max output | 65,536 tokens | source |
| Input | text, image, video, audio, pdf | source |
| Output | text | source |
| Licence | Proprietary (API) | source |
Where Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite sits in our data
- Released Jul 21, 2026 (week 30 of 2026), in July 2026. Other models in our data released that month: Gemini Robotics ER 2, GPT-Live-Transcribe, GPT-Transcribe, Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Kimi K3.
- The previous Google model we track is Nano Banana 2 Lite (Jun 30, 2026), 21 days earlier.
- Of the 60 models in our data with a published context window, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite has the number 17 largest (1.05M tokens). Our data is not every model on the market.
- Google tools we cover: Gemini Notebook, Google ADK, Gemini CLI.
- All releases by date: AI model releases by month · new AI models this week. Choosing for code: best LLM for coding.
How Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite differs from Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Read from the recorded facts of the two models, not from a head-to-head test. We have not run either.
- Both list a 1.05M-token context window.
- Both accept text, image, video, audio, pdf as input.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite came out 75 days after Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite.
- Facts for the other model: Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite.
What we tested
Nothing yet. We have not run Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite ourselves, so every fact on this page is Reported from the sources below. When we do test it, the scope will be stated here and in our test logs. See methodology.
Sources
More from Google
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (May 7, 2026)
- Gemini 3.6 Flash (Jul 21, 2026)
- Gemini Robotics ER 2 (Jul 30, 2026)
- Nano Banana 2 Lite (Jun 30, 2026)
- Gemini 3.5 Transcribe (Aug 26, 2026)
- Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash (Aug 27, 2026)
- Gemini 3.8 Flash (Sep 2, 2026)