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Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite API pricing

gemini-3.5-flash-lite

Lite tier: a fifth of Pro's input price. Built for classification, routing and extraction rather than reasoning.

Gemini You pay 25% of list price OpenAI-compatible Pay as you go
List price · input
$0.300
per 1M tokens · output $2.50
You pay · input
$0.075
per 1M tokens · output $0.625
You save 75% on every call. Same model, same context window, same speed — the only thing that changes is your bill.

Price breakdown

Per 1M tokensList priceAPICLANYou save
Input$0.300$0.07575%
Output$2.50$0.62575%

Cached input is billed at a fraction of the input rate, so agent tools that resend the same context — Codex, Claude Code, Cline — cost considerably less in practice than the raw token count suggests.

Work out your own cost

Put in the token counts from a typical request. Both columns update as you type.

At list price
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At APICLAN
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What a real session costs

A coding session through Codex on this platform used 90,459 tokens across five requests — roughly seventeen minutes of back-and-forth over a codebase. At list price that is $0.178. The customer paid $0.036.

That is real billing data, not an estimate. Heavy context reuse is exactly where the saving compounds: the same work, one fifth of the invoice.

How to call gemini-3.5-flash-lite

The API is OpenAI-compatible. Point your base URL at APICLAN and pass the model name — nothing else in your code changes.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="YOUR_KEY",
    base_url="https://apiclan.us/v1",
)

resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gemini-3.5-flash-lite",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)

Using Claude Code or the Anthropic SDK? Those clients append /v1/messages themselves, so their base URL is https://apiclan.us with no /v1. Full setup for every client is in the Quickstart.

Other Gemini models

ModelInput / 1MOutput / 1M
gemini-3.1-pro-preview$0.500$3.00
gemini-3-pro-preview$0.500$3.00
gemini-3.8-flash$0.188$0.938
gemini-3.7-flash$0.188$0.938
gemini-3.6-flash$0.188$0.938
gemini-3.5-flash$0.375$2.25
gemini-3-flash$0.125$0.750
gemini-3.1-flash-lite$0.062$0.375
gemini-3.1-flash-image$0.125$0.750
gemini-2.5-pro$0.312$2.50
gemini-2.5-flash$0.075$0.625
gemini-2.5-flash-lite$0.025$0.100

Prices above are what you pay, not list price. Cheaper models in the same family often handle routine work at a fraction of the cost — worth testing before defaulting to the largest one.

Start using it

No subscription, no monthly minimum, no sales call. Top up with USDT and spend what you use — 1 USDT gives you 2 credits of API balance.

Read the 30-second quickstart

Pricing verified 2026-10-01 · from the published list price. List prices change; this page is regenerated automatically from live billing data.

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