Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is a high-efficiency model from Google with upgraded agentic capabilities. It is suited for subagents that execute focused tasks within complex, multi-agent workflows.
Model details →Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Meta: Llama 4 Maverick
Meta: Llama 4 Maverick wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct (128E) is a high-capacity multimodal language model from Meta, built on a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 128 experts and 17 billion active parameters per forward...
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Meta: Llama 4 Maverick | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 1.0M | 1.0M | Tie |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.30 | $0.19 | 🏆 Meta: Llama 4 Maverick |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $2.50 | $0.65 | 🏆 Meta: Llama 4 Maverick |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | — | 🏆 Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite |
Frequently asked questions
Is Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Meta: Llama 4 Maverick?
Meta: Llama 4 Maverick wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Meta: Llama 4 Maverick?
Input: $0.30 vs $0.19 per 1M tokens. Output: $2.50 vs $0.65 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Meta: Llama 4 Maverick support?
Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite supports up to 1.0M tokens. Meta: Llama 4 Maverick supports up to 1.0M tokens.
Do both Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Meta: Llama 4 Maverick support tool calling?
Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: yes. Meta: Llama 4 Maverick: yes.