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Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite API minimizes input cost while retaining text, image, file, audio, and video support across a 1.05M context. It is aimed at broad first-pass processing rather than the highest logic score. [1]

LLM2014 logic 2026-08: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite API (high) ranks #27 with a 20.44 median, 29.51 best score, and 192s average time. Configurations are separate. [1][2]

MODALITIES
Price$0.15 / $1.25 / 1MCONTEXT1.0486M

Playground

Try Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite in the API Need Playground.

Provider

Current API Need routing and live API pricing. [1]

API Need50% off
Uptime
Total Context
1.0486M
Max Output
65.536K
Input
$0.15/ 1M
Output
$1.25/ 1M
Cache Read
$0.015/ 1M
Cache Write
Route priced

Pricing

Pricing uses the current live API Need configuration for this model.

Official
Provider baseline
Input $0.3/ 1MOutput $2.5/ 1M
Baseline
APINEED50% off
Prepaid credits
Input $0.15/ 1MOutput $1.25/ 1M

Availability

Recent public performance data for this model.

API statusLive metrics
API Need gateway99.91% uptime

Benchmarks

Editorial benchmark data is shown when this model has a verified match. [2]Intelligence uses the source’s median-score ranking. Efficiency views are APINEED calculations, not official LLM2014 rankings. Test costs and reference prices are converted at ¥7 per US dollar; they are not APINEED selling prices. Missing values are N/A. These results describe the source’s tested configurations, not guaranteed APINEED endpoint performance.

1stGPT-5.5 (xhigh)80.2373.897.9%534s33,219$27.51$29.57
2ndGPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh)78.3769.4211.42%381s17,769$14.71$29.57
3rdKimi-K3 (max)75.7767.6610.7%1144s41,432$17.40$15.00
4thClaude Opus 5 (xhigh)71.2464.749.12%437s26,705$18.43$24.64
5thGLM-5.3 (max)74.4863.9114.19%1009s57,408$6.43$4.00
6thGLM-5.3-Flash (max)69.5560.5212.98%863s38,787$0.22$0.20
7thQwen3.8-Max (xhigh)64.6860.057.16%1297s65,135$9.38$5.14
8thDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813(max)70.1359.6314.97%1601s73,350$7.92$3.86
9thDeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp (max)62.8658.107.57%974s79,420$2.86$1.29
10thGemini 3.7 Flash (high)66.6257.5613.6%131s26,596$2.75$3.70
11thGrok 4.6 (high)67.9356.4116.96%813s33,807$5.60$5.91
12thGemini 3.1 Pro (high)69.3555.8419.48%235s28,338$9.39$11.83
13thDeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max)66.3455.2316.75%881s74,657$2.69$1.29
14thGLM-5.2 (max)66.5354.7017.78%891s46,273$5.18$4.00
15thQwen3.8-Flash (xhigh)65.4454.4916.73%844s64,942$0.70$0.39
16thGPT-5.6 Luna (xhigh)65.9251.6221.69%247s37,885$1.25$1.18
17thQwen3.8-27B (xhigh)58.4847.6518.52%2318s73,987$3.55$1.71
18thDoubao-Seed-2.1-pro (high)55.1245.7816.94%2026s85,238$10.23$4.29
19thMuse Spark 1.2 (xhigh)57.9345.1422.08%359s47,209$5.54$4.19
20thGemini 3.7 Flash (low)53.5044.0617.64%59s10,673$1.10$3.70
21stClaude Sonnet 5 (xhigh)47.8039.5717.22%545s45,066$12.44$9.86
22ndTencent Hy3 (high)57.8939.5131.75%1076s53,214$0.85$0.57
23rdQwen3.7-Plus (high)51.3638.7424.57%1254s58,610$1.88$1.14
24thMiniMax-M343.8337.3714.74%982s57,486$1.93$1.20
25thDoubao-Seed-2.0-lite 0428 (high)34.1326.1823.29%669s27,845$0.40$0.51
26thClaude Opus 534.9424.5829.65%156s10,261$7.08$24.64
27thGemini 3.5 Flash Lite (high)29.5120.4430.74%192s17,842$1.23$2.46
28thLing-3.0-flash28.3717.0539.9%735s95,538N/AN/A
29thGemma 4 31B21.3616.0924.67%756s15,290$0.17$0.39
30thopenPangu-2.0-Pro20.0215.7521.33%645s28,215$1.64$2.07
31stQwen3.7-Plus20.8415.6325%323s8,910$0.29$1.14
32ndGPT-5.5 Instant21.7314.0935.16%28s1,712$1.42$29.57
33rdMistral Medium 3.517.2513.8719.59%200s28,129$5.82$7.39
34thStep-3.7-Flash26.1813.7447.52%282s47,180$1.53$1.16
35thMiMo-V2.5-Pro26.3113.0050.59%550s33,095$0.79$0.86
36thDots3-Note Preview18.6312.9530.49%210s28,386N/AN/A
37thERNIE 5.116.3211.3230.64%468s24,522$1.77$2.57
38thQwen3.8-27B16.4810.6135.62%192s8,914$0.43$1.71
39thopenPangu-2.0-Flash19.2410.1647.19%583s29,052$0.19$0.23
40thLongCat-2.017.619.7444.69%374s14,273$0.46$1.14
41stClaude Sonnet 516.499.6741.36%113s6,175$1.70$9.86
42ndGLM-5.212.428.0535.19%24s929$0.10$4.00
43rdDeepSeek V4 Flash 073113.577.9341.56%53s4,621$0.17$1.29
44thGemini 3.1 Flash Lite9.017.1121.09%11s707$0.03$1.48
45thDoubao-Seed-2.1-pro13.036.1752.65%319s6,948$0.83$4.29
46thMistral Medium 3.58.455.9329.82%18s2,589$0.54$7.39

Quick Start

Call Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite with its real backend model ID.

1

Get an API key

Create an API key in the product app.

export API_NEED_API_KEY=sk-apineed-v1-...
2

Send a request

Call /v1/chat/completions with model gemini-3.5-flash-lite.

TypeScript SDKPythoncURLOpenAI SDK
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.API_NEED_API_KEY,
  baseURL: "https://apineed.com/v1"
});

const result = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "gemini-3.5-flash-lite",
  messages: [
    { role: "user", content: "Why is the sky blue?" }
  ]
});

console.log(result.choices[0].message.content);
3

Handle the response

Validate responses and errors in your application.

curl https://apineed.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_NEED_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "model": "gemini-3.5-flash-lite",
  "stream": true,
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Hello"
    }
  ]
}'

Endpoints

Endpoints currently returned by the live pricing API.

POST/v1/responses
Authorization
Bearer $API_NEED_API_KEY
Content-Type
application/json
HTTP-Referer
optional - your site URL, for rankings
X-Title
optional - your site name, for rankings
Model
gemini-3.5-flash-lite
POST/v1/chat/completions
Authorization
Bearer $API_NEED_API_KEY
Content-Type
application/json
HTTP-Referer
optional - your site URL, for rankings
X-Title
optional - your site name, for rankings
Model
gemini-3.5-flash-lite

Parameters

Supported parameters are shown when verified metadata is available. [1]

No verified parameter metadata is currently available.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite API Q&A

Model-specific answers for teams comparing Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite API on capability, benchmark evidence, integration, and cost.

What makes Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite API economical?

Its APINEED input rate is $0.15 per million tokens and cache reads cost $0.015 after the 50% discount.

Can Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite API process video and audio?

Yes. Text, image, file, audio, and video are listed input modalities, with text output.

Where does Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite API rank?

LLM2014 logic 2026-08: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (high) ranks #27 with a 20.44 median, 29.51 best score, and 192s average time. Configurations are separate.

Which workloads fit Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite?

For Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite API, high-volume extraction, tagging, summarization, and multimodal routing are stronger fits than the most difficult reasoning tasks.

Which endpoint serves Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite API?

Call Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite API through https://apineed.com/v1/chat/completions with gemini-3.5-flash-lite as the model value. Existing OpenAI SDK clients usually need only the APINEED base URL and key.

How do I validate Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite API before release?

Evaluate Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite API on representative prompts, record quality, latency, and token use, then choose reasoning settings and fallbacks from those results.

How to deploy Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite

Connect the live model to your application.

1

Top up

Add usage credit in the product app.

2

Create a key

Create and securely store an API key.

3

Configure the endpoint

Send requests to /v1/chat/completions.

4

Monitor responses

Track status, latency, and errors in your application.

Use gemini-3.5-flash-lite in your application.

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