Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Overview
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is a Gemini 3-series model for low-latency, high-throughput multimodal processing. It is suited to document extraction, classification, translation, structured data tasks, and parallel subagent workflows. On B.AI, use the model ID gemini-3.5-flash-lite.
Key Features
- High-Throughput Processing: Designed for latency-sensitive, high-volume production traffic.
- Multimodal Input: Supports text, image, video, audio, and PDF input with text output.
- Configurable Thinking: Supports multiple thinking levels, with a lightweight default for fast responses.
- Long Context: Supports up to 1,048,576 input tokens for large-scale document and data processing.
- Tool Integration: Supports function calling, structured outputs, code execution, grounding, URL context, and file-search workflows when enabled by the API configuration.
Best Use Cases
- Document and data extraction from PDFs, records, tables, and other multimodal inputs.
- Classification, routing, translation, tagging, and summarization at scale.
- Parallel subagent tasks that benefit from fast responses and structured outputs.
- Interactive applications, including chatbots and high-throughput content workflows.
Capabilities and Limitations
| Capability | Detailed Description |
|---|---|
| Reasoning | Supports configurable thinking levels for trading off response speed and reasoning depth. |
| Coding | Suitable for focused coding assistance, tool-using tasks, and structured-output workflows. |
| Multimodal | Supports text, image, video, audio, and PDF input with text output. |
| Context Window | Supports up to 1,048,576 input tokens. |
| Max Output | Supports up to 65,536 output tokens. |
| Tool Use | Supports function calling, structured outputs, code execution, grounding, URL context, and file-search workflows when available. |
| Multilingual | Suitable for translation and multilingual production workloads. |
Known Limitations
- The model can produce inaccurate responses; validate extracted or classified information before using it in critical workflows.
- Actual latency and tool availability vary with thinking level, prompt size, media inputs, and API configuration.
- Output is text-only; native image and audio generation are not included.
Credits Usage
| Model | Input (Credits/Token) | Cache Write (Credits/Token) | Cache Read (Credits/Token) | Output (Credits/Token) | Web Search (Credits/Use) | Billing Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | 0.30 | 0.30 | 0.03 | 2.50 | 14,000 | - |
Pricing note
Prices shown in the documentation are B.AI standard reference prices for base billing purposes. B.AI may provide lower actual usage costs through top-up bonuses and account benefits. Specific prices, bonus Credits, and account benefits are subject to the platform display and final billing records.