GoogleText Generation/v1/ai/chat

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite API

Access Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite through one API key. Google Cheapest Gemini Subagent Model.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is a high-efficiency model from Google with upgraded agentic capabilities, suited for subagents that execute focused tasks inside complex multi-agent workflows. Flash Lite is built for the worker roles in a multi-agent system: fetch, extract, classify, summarise, and hand back to an orchestrator running a larger model.

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Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite API pricing

Pay per request from your YepAPI balance — no subscription, no monthly minimum. Prices updated September 27, 2026.

Token type	Price
Input	$0.44 / 1M tokens
Output	$3.69 / 1M tokens
Context window	1.0M tokens

What it costs	Per job	Per 1,000
Chat reply1K input + 500 output tokens	$0.0023	$2.28
RAG answer8K input + 800 output tokens	$0.0065	$6.47
Agent step with tools30K input + 2K output tokens	$0.021	$20.58
Long document summary100K input + 2K output tokens	$0.051	$51.38

4,900+

Developers

2.3M+

API calls served

184

Endpoints

$0.01

Per call

Yep, that's it.

Try it live

Send a message and see Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite respond in real time.

POST/v1/ai/chatgoogle/gemini-3.5-flash-lite

Message *

Max Tokens

Maximum tokens in the response.

Stream

Real-time tokens

Hit "Send Request" to see the response

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite specs

Provider	Google
Model ID	google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite
Endpoint	/v1/ai/chat
Type	Text Generation
Context window	1.05M tokens
Max output	66K tokens
Reasoning	No
OpenAI-compatible	Yes — /v1/ai/chat/completions

How to get a Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite API key

1
Create an account
Sign up at yepapi.com with Google or email. It takes about 30 seconds.
2
Create an API key
Open the dashboard, go to API Keys and create a key. Copy it — it starts with yep_sk_.
3
Call Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
Send a request to /v1/ai/chat with the x-api-key header and model "google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite".
4
Pay as you go
Usage is billed per request from your balance. Top up any amount; there is no subscription.

Strengths

✓

Cheapest current Gemini

$0.44 per 1M input and $3.69 per 1M output tokens.

✓

Built for subagents

Upgraded agentic capabilities aimed at focused tasks inside larger workflows.

✓

Full multimodal input

Accepts text, images, files, audio and video.

✓

1M token context

Handles up to 1,048,576 input tokens and returns up to 65,536 output tokens per call.

Quick start

Copy this snippet and start making calls with Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite.

const res = await fetch('https://api.yepapi.com/v1/ai/chat', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "model": "google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Explain API gateways in 2 sentences."
      }
    ],
    "maxTokens": 256
  }),
});
const { data } = await res.json();
console.log(data.message.content);

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs similar models

Every model below runs on the same API key — switch by changing the model ID.

Model	Provider	Price	Context
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	Google	$0.44 in / $3.69 out per 1M	1.0M
Gemma 4 26B	Google	$0.13 in / $0.44 out per 1M	262K
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite	Google	$0.15 in / $0.59 out per 1M	1.0M
Gemma 4 31B	Google	$0.30 in / $0.59 out per 1M	262K
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite	Google	$0.37 in / $2.22 out per 1M	1.0M
Gemini 2.5 Flash	Google	$0.44 in / $3.69 out per 1M	1.0M
Nemotron 3 Super	NVIDIA	$0 in / $0 out per 1M	262K
Qwen3.7 Flash	Qwen	$0.04 in / $0.19 out per 1M	1M

Why use Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite through YepAPI?

✓One API key for all models — no separate accounts

✓OpenAI SDK compatible — just change the base URL

✓No monthly minimums — pay per token

✓Switch models with one line of code

✓Full provider passthrough — citations, search results, and all extras included

✓Streaming and non-streaming support on every model

✓Works with Cursor, Claude, LangChain, and any LLM tool

✓Unified billing across all providers

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite API — pricing, context window & access

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is a high-efficiency model from Google with upgraded agentic capabilities, suited for subagents that execute focused tasks inside complex multi-agent workflows. It pairs a 1,048,576-token context window with up to 65,536 output tokens per response, at $0.44 per 1M input and $3.69 per 1M output tokens through YepAPI.

Through YepAPI you call Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite on an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with a single key — the same key that reaches GPT-6, Claude, Gemini, Grok and the SEO, SERP and scraping APIs. Input: text, images, files, audio, video.

What is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is a high-efficiency model from Google with upgraded agentic capabilities, suited for subagents that execute focused tasks inside complex multi-agent workflows. At $0.44 / $3.69 per 1M tokens it is the cheapest current Gemini, and it keeps the family's full multimodal input and 1,048,576-token context window. It accepts text, images, files, audio, video as input, handles up to 1,048,576 tokens of context and returns up to 65,536 output tokens per call.

Build with Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite via YepAPI

YepAPI serves Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite on the OpenAI-compatible /v1/ai/chat endpoint. Point your base URL at YepAPI, add your key, and set the model string to gemini-3.5-flash-lite (or the full google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite). Function calling, structured outputs and reasoning settings pass straight through, and switching to any other model on the platform is a one-string change per request.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite API pricing — $0.44 / 1M input, $3.69 / 1M output

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite costs $0.44 per 1M input tokens and $3.69 per 1M output tokens through YepAPI, pay per token with no minimums. Failed calls are never charged, and every request is itemised in your dashboard API Logs so you can see exactly what a 65,536-token response cost.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite use cases

Flash Lite is built for the worker roles in a multi-agent system: fetch, extract, classify, summarise, and hand back to an orchestrator running a larger model.

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What developers say

“Switched from SerpAPI and cut our SERP costs by 80%. Same data quality, way simpler billing.”
Marcus T.
SEO Platform Founder

“One API key for AI models, SERP data, and web scraping. Saved us from managing 4 separate providers.”
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Full-Stack Developer

“The $5 free credit let us prototype our entire rank tracking feature before committing. No other API does that.”
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Indie Hacker

Frequently asked questions

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite costs $0.44 per 1M input tokens and $3.69 per 1M output tokens through YepAPI, billed per request with no monthly fee. For example, a chat reply (1K input + 500 output tokens) costs about $0.0023.

Sign up at yepapi.com (Google or email, about 30 seconds), open the dashboard and create an API key. The same key works for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and every other model — no separate Google account or waitlist.

Use "google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite" as the model on /v1/ai/chat. The short alias "gemini-3.5-flash-lite" also works.

Yes. Point the OpenAI SDK at https://api.yepapi.com/v1/ai with your YepAPI key and set model to "google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite". Streaming works the same way, so existing OpenAI code only needs the base URL and key changed.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite supports a 1.0M token context window with up to 66K output tokens per request.

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