Gemini 4 Flash-Lite

Estimated release

Jan 13, 2027

Mid Jan 2027

Details

Status: Not announced; Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (Jul 21) is the current Lite model
Current model: Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, 22.2 on the Intelligence Index, released Jul 21, 2026 ()
Projected score: About 30.2 (+8)
Typical cycle: About 140 days between releases

Flash-Lite always ships after the Flash of the same generation: 2.0 (20 days later), 2.5 (4 weeks), 3.1 (11 weeks after 3 Flash) and 3.5 (9 weeks after 3.5 Flash)
Lite updates far less often than Flash: there was no 3.6, 3.7 or 3.8 Flash-Lite, so the next one probably waits for the Gemini 4 generation
The date counts about two months from the Gemini 4 Flash forecast (mid Nov), pushed past the holidays; if Gemini 4 Flash slips, this slips too
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (22.2, $0.30/$2.50, about 340 tokens/s) is Google's fastest model; each Lite generation has gained 6 to 7 points, so the projection assumes about 30

Source: Google Gemini Flash-Lite release history (3.5 Flash-Lite, Jul 21, 2026) & Artificial Analysis