Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

A lightweight text-only model from Google with a 1M token context window, released in mid-2026 as a faster, more efficient alternative to the standard Flash tier.

Strengths

Handles large text workloads with lower latency and reduced resource consumption compared to the full Flash model.

Best for

Processing text at scale — summarization, classification, bulk analysis, and other tasks where speed and efficiency matter more than advanced reasoning.

Limitations

Text-only; lacks the multimodal support (image, video, audio) available in later Flash models and cannot handle the full range of complex reasoning tasks that larger models support.