Gemini 3.5 Transcribe (and Transcribe Live)
Speech and audio
gemini-3.5-transcribe
$2 audio in, $12 out per 1M tokens
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Fast, low-cost multimodal model for classification, extraction, routing and subagents.
Model idgemini-3.5-flash-lite
Price$0.30 in, $2.50 out per 1M tokens
Checked12 October 2026
Knows up to March 2026
1,889events after its cutoff
85 historic, 433 major. 227 days of news.
It launched on 21 July 2026, already missing 135 of them.
How to call it
3 ways to use Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, with the model id each provider expects.
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini API | gemini-3.5-flash-lite |
https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/gemini-3.5-flash-lite:generateContent |
ai.google.dev |
| OpenRouter | google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite |
||
| Web app | gemini.google.com |
Pricing
| Input | $0.30 per 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Output | $2.50 per 1M tokens |
As published: “per 1M tokens (Standard tier)”.
Source: ai.google.dev, checked 12 October 2026.
Specs
- Input
- Text, images, audio, video and PDF
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 1,048,576 tokens
- Max output
- 65,536 tokens
- Open weights
- No
- Licence
- Proprietary
- Training cutoff
- March 2026
- Released
- 21 July 2026
- Status
- Current
- Type
- Language model
What stands out
What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.
High-throughput subagent model
~350 output tokens/s; optimized for subagent tasks and document processing at low cost.
Strong coding for a Lite tier
54% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 vs 31% for the previous Flash-Lite.
Four assistants, one scale
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is added as a fifth row. Each row runs from what the model knows (graphite) through the months between its cutoff and its launch (hatched) to today (pink).
- GPT-6 Astra 271 at launch, 1,863 today
- Claude Opus 5.5 372 at launch, 1,795 today
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen 1,863 at launch, 1,889 today
- Grok 4.7 387 at launch, 1,829 today
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite 135 at launch, 1,889 today
Show as a table
| Model | Cutoff | Released | Missing at launch | Missing today |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-6 Astra | April 2026 | 3 September 2026 | 271 | 1,863 |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | June 2026 | 22 September 2026 | 372 | 1,795 |
| Gemini 4 Hydrogen | March 2026 | 12 November 2026 | 1,863 | 1,889 |
| Grok 4.7 | May 2026 | 21 September 2026 | 387 | 1,829 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | March 2026 | 21 July 2026 | 135 | 1,889 |
Notes
Knowledge cutoff March 2026 per Google’s model card (storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/Model-Cards/Gemini-3-5-Flash-Lite-Model-Card.pdf). Cheapest current Gemini text model; recommended replacement for 2.5 Flash/Flash-Lite and 3.1 Flash-Lite.
curl "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/gemini-3.5-flash-lite:generateContent" \
-H "x-goog-api-key: $GEMINI_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"contents":[{"parts":[{"text":"Classify: I love this product"}]}]}'
Sources: model page, pricing, launch blog.
Not yet checked against an official source: Alias gemini-flash-lite-latest may point here (not verified).