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Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite at a glance

Good enough on 5/52 tasks at the 90% bar. Best value on 0 tasks. Doesn't qualify on any: Financial Analysis & Trading Decisions, Long-form Content Generation, Social & Promotional Content, Topic Organ

Provider
Gemini
Model name
gemini-3.5-flash-lite
Cost mode:
Qualifies on
5 / 52 tasks (at 90% bar)
Best value on
0 tasks

Cost vs quality across all tasks

0%25%50%75%100%8910Quality score (8–10)Cost-efficiency vs best value (1.0 = best value)Engagement Opportunity Triage — quality 8.26, 1.9x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionLanguage Identification — quality 9.88, 1.3x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionSocial Post Portfolio Selection — quality 8.60, 1.4x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionEvidence Grounded Claim Generation — quality 8.46, 1.9x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionBatch Text Translation — quality 8.58, 1.9x the cost of the best-value good-enough option

within ~1.3× of the best-value model · 1.3–2× · >2× · ★ this model is the best-value pick on that task. Top-right = best quadrant. Only tasks where this model qualifies at the 90% bar are plotted.

Per-task breakdown

TaskCategoryQuality (% of best)ConfidenceOverpay
Language IdentificationRelevance, Classification & Matching98%RANKED1.3x
Social Post Portfolio SelectionRelevance, Classification & Matching98%HIGH1.4x
Engagement Opportunity TriageRelevance, Classification & Matching93%HIGH1.9x
Batch Text TranslationInfrastructure & Utility91%MEDIUM1.9x
Evidence Grounded Claim GenerationContent Summarization & Synthesis96%MEDIUM1.9x

Overpay — how much more you pay by running this model instead of the best-value model that clears the quality bar on that task (marked ★). "16x" means you overpay 16× — the same output for 16× the best-value good-enough option; ★ means this model is that option (no overpayment). Confidence — how sure we are about the quality score (more judgments + more agreement = higher confidence): RANKED many independent judges scored this model's outputs and their agreement is very high (most confident) — HIGH many judges have scored it and they mostly agree (well-pinned) — MEDIUM enough judges have weighed in to publish, but they disagree more than we'd like (treat with a small grain of salt). LOW-confidence cells are hidden everywhere on the site. See the methodology for the exact thresholds.