What Gemini 3 Flash Lite costs for real workloads
| Workload | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Support chatbot: 100K messages | $86.25 |
| RAG search: 10K queries with 6K-token context | $31.88 |
| Batch summarization: 1,000 long documents | $9.38 |
| Coding agent: 100 tasks, 50K context x 20 turns | $9.19 |
Chatbot: 800 input + 300 output tokens per message. RAG: 6,000 + 500 per query. Summarization: 20,000 + 1,000 per document. Coding agent: 20 turns per task over a 50K-token context, with 95% of input served from cache where the model supports it.
Gemini 3 Flash Lite vs similarly priced models
| Model | Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cached / 1M | Blended |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite | $0.25 | $1.50 | $0.025 | $0.56 | |
| Llama 3.3 70B Versatile | Groq | $0.59 | $0.79 | — | $0.64 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | $0.38 | $1.88 | $0.037 | $0.75 | |
| Mistral Large 3 | Mistral AI | $0.50 | $1.50 | $0.050 | $0.75 |
| Gemini 3 Flash Lite | $0.38 | $1.88 | $0.037 | $0.75 | |
| Gemini 3 Nano | $0.30 | $2.50 | $0.030 | $0.85 | |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | $0.30 | $2.50 | $0.030 | $0.85 | |
| Gemini 2 Flash | $0.30 | $2.50 | $0.030 | $0.85 | |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | $0.30 | $2.50 | $0.030 | $0.85 |
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Gemini 3 Flash Lite pricing FAQ
How much does the Gemini 3 Flash Lite API cost?
Gemini 3 Flash Lite costs $0.38 per million input tokens and $1.88 per million output tokens on Google, with cached input at $0.037 per million. Prices as of November 8, 2026.
How much does Gemini 3 Flash Lite cost for 1,000 requests?
At 1,000 input and 500 output tokens per request, 1,000 requests cost about $1.31.
Does Gemini 3 Flash Lite have a prompt caching discount?
Yes. Cached input is $0.037 per million tokens, 10x cheaper than fresh input. Workloads that resend the same context, like agents and chat with long system prompts, pay mostly the cached rate.
Is Gemini 3 Flash Lite expensive compared to other LLM APIs?
It ranks #24 cheapest of 76 models we track on a blended price (3 input tokens per output token) of $0.75 per million tokens.
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