When was Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite released?

Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite on 21 Jul 2026. It is available through the Opper gateway.

Does Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite support zero data retention?

With abuse monitoring, yes. On Google Cloud through the Opper gateway, prompts and outputs are not used for training and are kept only for abuse monitoring. Zero data retention, with no monitoring hold, is available on Google Cloud under a signed Enterprise agreement.

Where is Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite hosted?

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite runs on both EU and US hosting routes through the Opper gateway. Pick the route that matches your residency requirement.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite trained on prompts and outputs?

No. Every hosting route for Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is configured so customer prompts and outputs are not used to train models by default.

Is a GDPR DPA available for Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite?

Yes. A GDPR Data Processing Agreement is available on at least one route serving Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite. Contact hello@opper.ai to receive it.

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

by Google

Announcement · All Google releases

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is Google's speed-focused small model, launched on July 21, 2026 alongside Gemini 3.6 Flash and delivering a substantial quality jump over the previous Flash Lite generation from March. Despite the lite label it retains a 1 million token context window, a 65K output ceiling, and full multimodal input spanning images, audio, video, and PDFs. The model is designed for high-throughput, low-latency workloads such as agentic search, document processing, and bulk automation. Tool calling and structured output make it a natural subagent inside larger agent systems, handling the high-frequency steps while heavier models are reserved for the hard decisions.

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Key info

Input

Output

Features

Context window

Max output

66K

Input price

$0.30 /1M$0.03 cache read · $0.38 write

Output price

$2.50 /1M

Released

21 Jul 2026

Web search

Native

EU residency available
US residency available
Zero data retention with abuse monitoring
Zero data retention on Enterprise
No training by default
GDPR DPA available

Available routes

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite runs on 5 different routes through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, zero data retention and training posture at a glance, with full data-handling detail per route below. Zero data retention on Google Cloud is available on Enterprise. In the EU it is served by Google Cloud. See every Gemini model hosted in the EU. Some routes also sell flex and priority processing: the same model at another price, picked per request with service_tier. How service tiers work.

Provider	Region	Training	Input	Output	Cache read
Google Cloud	US	No	$0.30	$2.50	$0.03$0.38 write
Google Cloud	Multi	No	$0.30	$2.50	$0.03	Not offered on this route	Not offered on this route
Google Cloud	EU	No	$0.30	$2.50	$0.03	Not offered on this route	Not offered on this route
Google Cloud	Multi	No	$0.30	$2.50	$0.03$0.38 write
Google Cloud	EU	No	$0.33	$2.75	$0.03$0.41 write	Not offered on this route

Live routes and prices as JSON: api.opper.ai/v3/models?q=gemini-3.5-flash-lite

Uptime and availability

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite runs on a single route through the Opper gateway today, so its availability is that provider's availability.

98.04%route uptime, last 30 days

Single route, no failover target within this model.

Name a second model in the same request and the gateway tries it on retriable errors, so a busy hour never has to reach your users. Set up a fallback chain.

Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. See uptime for every provider Opper monitors.

Data handling per route

Each route hosting Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.

Google Cloud — United States🇺🇸

Zero data retention with abuse monitoring: prompts and outputs are kept for abuse monitoring only, for a window the provider does not state, and are not used for training. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention: With abuse monitoring, window not stated.
Training: No training on customer data.
Logging: Abuse monitoring
Abuse monitoring: On by default, holds flagged content, 55 days, a person can view samples
GDPR DPA: DPA available
Transfer mechanism: SCCs

Google Cloud — Multi-region

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. Available under a signed Enterprise agreement. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention: Yes, on Enterprise. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Plan: Signed Enterprise agreement
Training: No training on customer data.
Logging: None
Abuse monitoring: On by default, keeps nothing
Caching: Content cached for replay
GDPR DPA: DPA available
Transfer mechanism: SCCs

Google Cloud — EU🇪🇺

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. Available under a signed Enterprise agreement. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.

Zero data retention: Yes, on Enterprise. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Plan: Signed Enterprise agreement
Training: No training on customer data.
Logging: None
Abuse monitoring: On by default, keeps nothing
Caching: Content cached for replay
GDPR DPA: DPA available
Transfer mechanism: Not applicable — data stays in EU

Google Cloud — Multi-region

Zero data retention with abuse monitoring: nothing is logged or used for training; content flagged by abuse monitoring is held for review. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention: With abuse monitoring, flagged content held.
Training: No training on customer data.
Logging: None
Abuse monitoring: On by default, holds flagged content, 90 days, a person can view samples
GDPR DPA: DPA available
Transfer mechanism: SCCs

Google Cloud — EU🇪🇺

Zero data retention with abuse monitoring: nothing is logged or used for training; content flagged by abuse monitoring is held for review. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.

Zero data retention: With abuse monitoring, flagged content held.
Training: No training on customer data.
Logging: None
Abuse monitoring: On by default, holds flagged content, 90 days, a person can view samples
GDPR DPA: DPA available
Transfer mechanism: Not applicable — data stays in EU

Best for

Where Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite ranks among the models on Opper with a score for each use case.

Coding4.0

FrontierCode 2.0 and Terminal-Bench 4.0See the Coding ranking →Healthcare20.5

Healthcare and medicalSee the Healthcare ranking →Legal23.9

Legal tasks and reasoningSee the Legal ranking →Finance23.3

Finance and accountingSee the Finance ranking →Agents13.0

Terminal-Bench 4.0 and AutomationBenchSee the Agents ranking →

Benchmarks

Independent benchmark scores: the Intelligence Index and the individual evaluations behind it, grouped by skill.

Global rank#39 of 505 LLMs

TierEfficient

Output speed406 tok/s

Intelligence Index11.7

Coding

FrontierCode 2.0

Terminal-Bench 4.0

SciCode

41%

Agentic & knowledge work

AutomationBench

25%

GDPval

25%

GDP.pdf

14%

Briefcase (Elo)651

Science & reasoning

Terminal-Bench Science

CritPt (hard)

HLE Diamond

10%

Humanity's Last Exam

19%

GPQA Diamond

84%

Long-context reasoning

76%

Knowledge

Omniscience6.9

MMMU-Pro

79%

By domain

Finance & accounting

23.3

Legal

23.9

Healthcare & medical

20.5

Engineering

21.2

Economics

21.6

Strategy & operations

20.7

See full leaderboard →Benchmarks via Artificial Analysis · View on AA

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1import OpenAI from "openai";
2
3const client = new OpenAI({
4  apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,
5  baseURL: "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat",
6});
7
8const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
9  model: "gemini-3.5-flash-lite",
10  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
11});
12console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);