Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
The lightest, most economical Gemini model for simple tasks
free access available
- Context
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Type
- Lightweight, fast
- Input
- Text, images
- Developer
- Google DeepMind
- Strengths
- Speed, efficiency
- Access
- ChatPlus PRO
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the lightest model in the Gemini line. As fast and economical as it gets, it is built for simple everyday tasks: short questions, drafts, rephrasing, and high volumes of similar requests. Available on the PRO plan.
Flash Lite is the lightest Gemini model, and its job is simple: close out easy questions quickly and cheaply. Rephrase text, reply to a short email, quickly parse something — it handles all of that instantly.
The point of the model is volume: where there are many requests and each is simple, speed and price matter more than depth. For heavy tasks in the same line there are the senior Flash models and Gemini 3 Pro.
On ChatPlus, Flash Lite is available on the PRO plan — as the fastest option for everyday routine.
What it's good at
Maximum speed
Instant answers on simple tasks and high query volumes.
Efficiency
The cheapest in the line — a fit for high-volume routine.
Simple tasks
Drafts, rephrasing and short questions are its element.
Large context
Up to 1M tokens even in a light version.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and every other model — one plan, one window.
Where it's strongest
Gemini next to the others
How Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and the flagships of other labs look side by side. They're all in one ChatPlus subscription.
| Claude | DeepSeek | GPT | Gemini | Grok | GLM | Kimi | Qwen | Muse | GLM 5.3 Flash | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer | Anthropic | DeepSeek | OpenAI | xAI | Z.ai | Moonshot | Alibaba | Meta | Z.ai | |
| Model | Sonnet 4.6 | DeepSeek V4.1 Reasoner | GPT-6 Astra | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Grok 4 | GLM 5 | Kimi K3 | Qwen 3.8 Max | Muse Spark 1.3 | GLM 5.3 Flash |
| Context | 200K | 128K | 1M | 1M | 256K | 1M | 256K | 256K | 1M | 1M |
| Understands images | — | — | ||||||||
| Live web data | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Open source | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Key strength | Text and code | Reasoning | Computer use | Speed | Timeliness | Code and agents | Long context | Complex tasks | Agents and code | Code and agents |
| On ChatPlus |