Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image is Google's image generation model with a 66K context window and up to 59K output tokens, available from 4 providers, starting at $0.25 / 1M input and $1.50 / 1M output. A lightweight, fast image-generation variant of the Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite model, optimized for efficient multimodal generation tasks.
Specifications
Canonical IDgoogle-gemini-3-1-flash-lite-image
TypeImage Generation
StatusActive
CreatorGoogleGoogle
Providers
Context Window66K tokens
Max Output59K tokens
Input ModalitiesImagePDFTextVideo
Output ModalitiesImageText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 4 months ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 2 years ago
Deprecation Date

Capabilities

Input4/5
Text✓
Image✓
Audio·
Video✓
PDF✓
Output2/5
Text✓
Image✓
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities5/13
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
Audio In
$ / 1M
Image In
Image Out
Web Search
$ / request
Video In
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Audio In
$ / 1M
Image In
$ / 1M
Image Out
$ / 1M
Video In
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Image In
$ / 1M
Image Out
$ / 1M
Video In
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Audio In
$ / 1M
Image In
$ / 1M
Image Out
$ / 1M
Video In
$ / 1M
Google Gemini logo
Google Gemini
gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image
$0.25$1.50$0.025$0.5$0.25
/ 1M tokens
$30.00
/ 1M tokens
N/A$0.25$0.012N/AN/A$0.025$0.012N/A$0.012——————$0.125$0.75$0.125$0.25$0.125$15.00$0.125
Google Vertex AI logo
Google Vertex AI
gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image
$0.25$1.50$0.025N/A$0.125
/ 1M tokens
$0.75
/ 1M tokens
N/A$0.125$0.125$0.75$0.0125N/A$0.125$0.75$0.125$0.45$2.70$0.045$0.45$2.70$0.45$0.125$0.75N/AN/A$0.125$0.75$0.125
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image
$0.25$1.50N/AN/AN/AN/A$0.014N/A————————————————————
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image
$0.25$1.50$0.03N/AN/AN/AN/AN/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$1.50Current
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite1.0M$0.125$0.750Available
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite1.0M$0.125$0.750Available
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview1.0M$0.250$1.50Deprecated
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 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$0.375$1.88
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$1.00$6.00
Gemini 3 FlashFlash1.0M$0.250$1.50
Gemini 3 FlashFlash1.0M$0.250$1.50

Model IDs

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