Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is Google's language model with a 1.0M context window and up to 66K output tokens, available from 4 providers, starting at $0.250 / 1M input and $1.50 / 1M output. A preview release of Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite offering early evaluation of its lightweight reasoning, vision, and tool-use capabilities.
Specifications
Canonical IDgoogle-gemini-3-1-flash-lite-preview
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorGoogleGoogle
Providers
Context Window1.0M tokens
Max Output66K tokens
Input ModalitiesAudioImagePdfTextVideo
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 3 months ago
Knowledge Cutoff
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
33.5
#109
Coding Index
30.1
#107
GPQA
0.8
#78
HLE
0.2
#79
IFBench
0.8
#12
Time to First Token
4.88s
#428
SciCode
0.4
#62
LCR
0.7
#52
TerminalBench Hard
0.2
#118
TAU2
0.3
#219
Output TPS

Capabilities

Input5/5
Text
Image
Audio
Video
PDF
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities10/13
Reasoning
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling
Parallel Function Calling
Structured Outputs
Native JSON Schema
Web Search
URL Context
Computer Use·
Code Execution
File Search
Prompt Caching
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

ProviderStandardBatchFlexPriority
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Cache Write
$ / 1M
Reasoning
$ / 1M
Audio In
$ / 1M
Web Search
$ / query
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Audio In
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Audio In
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Audio In
$ / 1M
Google Gemini logo
Google Gemini
gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
$0.250$1.50$0.025$0.025$1.50$0.500N/A$0.125$0.750$0.250$0.125$0.750$0.250$0.450$2.70$0.900
Google Vertex AI logo
Google Vertex AI
gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
$0.250$1.50$0.025$0.025$1.50$0.500N/A$0.125$0.750$0.250$0.125$0.750$0.250$0.450$2.70$0.900
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
$0.250$1.50$0.025N/A$1.50$0.500$0.014
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
$0.250$1.50$0.030N/AN/AN/AN/A

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Preset:

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite1.0M$0.250$1.50Available
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview1.0M$0.250$1.50Current
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Live$0.250$1.50Available
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Live Preview$0.250$1.50Available
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Live TunedAvailable
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite TunedAvailable
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview1.0M$0.100$0.400Deprecated
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite1.0M$0.075$0.300Available
Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite1.0M$0.075$0.300Deprecating
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview ReasoningAvailable
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite ReasoningAvailable

Other models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Gemini 3.5 FlashFlash1.0M$1.50$9.00
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Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewPro1.0M$2.00$12.00
Gemini 3 FlashFlash1.0M$0.500$3.00
Gemini 3 Flash PreviewFlash1.0M$0.500$3.00
Gemini 3 Pro PreviewPro1.0M$2.00$12.00
Gemini 3 Pro ImagePro66K$2.00$12.00
Gemini 3 Flash ReasoningFlash
Gemini 3 ProPro$2.00$12.00
Gemini 3 Pro Preview LowPro

Model IDs