Artificial Analysis
#28of 51
Score 22.2. Best run: google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite.
Intelligence Index: a composite of reasoning, knowledge, maths and coding evaluations.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite benchmarks, ranks and price
Where Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL place Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite, what it costs through OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, and the models either side of it on the consensus.
Read Oct 1, 2026
#52of 85
on the LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 43 across 3 leaderboards.
Source: Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL, combined by Rank.ai.
By leaderboard
Where each leaderboard places Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LiveBench
#33of 34
Score 63.9. Best run: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite High.
Contamination-limited questions refreshed each release: reasoning, maths, coding, data analysis, language.
LMArena
#23of 79
Score 1459. Best run: gemini-3.5-flash-lite.
Blind head-to-head human votes, style controlled.
Berkeley BFCL
Not measured by Berkeley BFCL.
Function calling and tool use, single turn to multi turn and web search.
Price and context
$0.85
OpenRouter: $0.30 in, $2.50 out. Vercel AI Gateway: $0.30 in, $2.50 out Context window 1.0M tokens. LiveBench cost per solved task $0.069.
Nearby
The models either side of Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
- #49Qwen3.6 Plus45
- #50gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-1444
- #51mistral-medium-250843
- #52Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite43
- #53qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-250743
- #54Mistral Medium 3.542
- #55Qwen3.5-122B-A10B42
Questions about Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
How good is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite?
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite ranks #52 of 85 models on the Rank.ai LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 43 out of 100 across 3 leaderboards.
Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than mistral-medium-2508?
Not on the consensus: mistral-medium-2508 scores 43 to Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite's 43. Compare them source by source below, since the leaderboards test different things.
Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507?
On the consensus, yes: 43 to 43.
How much does Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite cost?
$0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens on OpenRouter, the cheaper listing we read. Blended at three input tokens to one output, that is $0.85 per million.
Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite good for coding?
It scores 49.3 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Index, placing it #30 for coding among the models on this leaderboard.
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