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 3 providers, starting at $0.25 / 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
StatusDeprecated
CreatorGoogleGoogle
Providers
Context Window1.0M tokens
Max Output66K tokens
Input ModalitiesAudioImagePDFTextVideo
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 7 months ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 2 years ago
Deprecation Date
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
#215
Coding Index
#110
GPQA
#138
HLE
#157
IFBench
#17
Time to First Token
#550
SciCode
#114
LCR
#100
TerminalBench Hard
#137
TAU2
#253
Output TPS
#13

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

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandardFlexFastBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Cache Write 5m
$ / 1M
Reasoning
$ / 1M
Audio In
$ / 1M
Image In
Web Search
$ / request
Video In
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Audio In
$ / 1M
Image In
$ / 1M
Video In
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Audio In
$ / 1M
Image In
$ / 1M
Video In
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Audio In
$ / 1M
Image In
$ / 1M
Video In
$ / 1M
Google Gemini logo
Google Gemini
gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
$0.25$1.50$0.025N/A$1.50$0.5$0.25
/ 1M tokens
N/A$0.25$0.125$0.75$0.0125$0.25$0.125$0.125$0.45$2.70$0.045$0.9$0.45$0.45$0.125$0.75$0.25$0.125$0.125
Google Vertex AI logo
Google Vertex AI
gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
$0.25$1.50$0.025N/A$1.50$0.5N/AN/AN/A—————————————————
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
$0.25$1.50$0.025$0.0833$1.50$0.5$0.000000
/ image
$0.014N/A—————————————————

Cost Calculator

US Dollar ($)
Preset:

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite1.0M$0.150$1.25Available
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image66K$0.250$1.50Available
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite1.0M$0.125$0.750Available
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview1.0M$0.250$1.50Current
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Live——$0.125$0.750Available
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Live Image——$0.250$1.50Available
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Live Preview——$0.250$1.50Available
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Live Tuned————Available
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Tuned————Available
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview1.0M$0.100$0.400Deprecated
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite1.0M$0.075$0.300Deprecating

Other Models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Gemini 4 Argon—————
Gemini 3.8 FlashFlash1.0M$0.750$3.75
Gemini 3.7 FlashFlash1.0M$0.750$3.75
Gemini 3.6 FlashFlash1.0M$0.750$3.75
Gemini 3.1 Flash ImageFlash131K$0.250$1.50
Gemini 3 Pro ImagePro131K$2.00$12.00
Gemini 3.5 FlashFlash1.0M$0.750$4.50
Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewPro1.0M$2.00$12.00
Gemini 3 FlashFlash1.0M$0.250$1.50
Gemini 3 Flash PreviewFlash1.0M$0.500$3.00

Model IDs

gemini-3-1-flash-lite-preview
gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
gemini/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
google-gemini-3-1-flash-lite-preview
google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
openrouter/google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
publishers/google/models/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
vertex_ai/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview