Google Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the lightweight tier of the Gemini 3.5 family, tuned for low cost and fast responses - roughly one fifth the cost of Gemini 3.5 Flash. Great for high-volume calls, latency-sensitive apps, and cost-sensitive workloads such as everyday chat, translation, short content generation, and classification/labeling tasks. Supports multimodal input (text, images, PDF), optional web search for up-to-date answers, and a thinking (reasoning) mode. Switch to Gemini 3.5 Flash or Gemini 3.1 Pro when you need deeper reasoning or more polished output.