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Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B

Google

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Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

Google

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0:7

overall capability wins (0 ties across 7 scored). Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite leads overall.

Reasoning0:3
Coding0:1
Arena0:1
Pricing3:0
Speed0:2
Specs0:2

Verdict

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite leads coding (widest gap: +18.4 on SciCode); Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite ranks higher on LMArena (+197 Elo); Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite offers larger context (1.0M vs 1M).

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite leads coding (widest gap: +18.4 on SciCode)
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite ranks higher on LMArena (+197 Elo)
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite offers larger context (1.0M vs 1M)
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite allows ~8.0x more max output (66K vs 8K)
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B is ~13.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

Cost for 1M in + 250K out

Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.

Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B: $0.07
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite: $0.93

Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B is about 12.3x cheaper on this workload.

Price per 1M tokens

Full comparison

Organization

Google

Family

Gemini

License

Proprietary

Open weights

Release

Oct 3, 2024

Jul 21, 2026

Knowledge cutoff

API / provider

Google

Modalities

text, image, audio, video → text

Specs

Context window

1.0M

B +49K

Max output

66K

B +57K

Parameters

—

Pricing

Input $/1M

$0.04

$0.30

A +$0.26

Output $/1M

$0.15

$2.50

A +$2.35

Blended $/1M (3∶1)

$0.07

$0.85

A +$0.78

Speed

tok/s

180

220

B +40

TTFT (s)

0.2

0.18

B +0.02

Reasoning

MMLU-Pro

56.9

—

GPQA Diamond

35.9

83.8

B +47.9 pts

Humanity's Last Exam

4.7

18.8

B +14.1 pts

AIME 2025

—

MATH-500

68.9

—

Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)

—

AA-Omniscience Accuracy

—

29.5

—

AA-LCR v1.1

—

76.0

—

CritPt

—

MMMU-Pro

36.5

79.0

B +42.5 pts

IFBench

—

Chartography

—

Chartography (With Tools)

—

Coding

SWE-bench Verified

—

SWE-bench Pro

—

SWE-bench Multilingual

—

LiveCodeBench

21.7

—

Terminal-Bench 2.1

—

53.6

—

Aider Polyglot

—

Terminal-Bench 3

—

BigCodeBench

—

SciCode

22.9

41.3

B +18.4 pts

CursorBench

—

SWE-Rebench

—

NL2Repo-Bench

—

DeepSWE

—

WebDev Arena

—

1,447

—

Terminal-Bench 4.0

—

CursorBench 4.0

—

FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)

—

Arena

LMArena Elo

1,259

1,456

B +197 Elo

Metric	Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B	Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite	Delta
Identity
Organization	Google	Google	—
Family	Gemini	Gemini	—
License	Proprietary	Proprietary	—
Open weights	No	No	—
Release	Oct 3, 2024	Jul 21, 2026	—
Knowledge cutoff	-	-	—
API / provider	Google	Google	—
Modalities	text, image, audio, video → text	text, image, audio, video → text	—
Specs
Context window	1M	1.0M	B +49K
Max output	8K	66K	B +57K
Parameters	—	—	—
Pricing
Input $/1M	$0.04	$0.30	A +$0.26
Output $/1M	$0.15	$2.50	A +$2.35
Blended $/1M (3∶1)	$0.07	$0.85	A +$0.78
Speed
tok/s	180	220	B +40
TTFT (s)	0.2	0.18	B +0.02
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro	56.9	—	—
GPQA Diamond	35.9	83.8	B +47.9 pts
Humanity's Last Exam	4.7	18.8	B +14.1 pts
AIME 2025	—	—	—
MATH-500	68.9	—	—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)	—	—	—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy	—	29.5	—
AA-LCR v1.1	—	76.0	—
CritPt	—	—	—
MMMU-Pro	36.5	79.0	B +42.5 pts
IFBench	—	—	—
Chartography	—	—	—
Chartography (With Tools)	—	—	—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified	—	—	—
SWE-bench Pro	—	—	—
SWE-bench Multilingual	—	—	—
LiveCodeBench	21.7	—	—
Terminal-Bench 2.1	—	53.6	—
Aider Polyglot	—	—	—
Terminal-Bench 3	—	—	—
BigCodeBench	—	—	—
SciCode	22.9	41.3	B +18.4 pts
CursorBench	—	—	—
SWE-Rebench	—	—	—
NL2Repo-Bench	—	—	—
DeepSWE	—	—	—
WebDev Arena	—	1,447	—
Terminal-Bench 4.0	—	—	—
CursorBench 4.0	—	—	—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)	—	—	—
Arena
LMArena Elo	1,259	1,456	B +197 Elo