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 $0.25 / 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
StatusActive
CreatorGoogleGoogle
Providers
Context Window1.0M tokens
Max Output66K tokens
Input ModalitiesAudioImagePDFTextVideo
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 4 months ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 1 year ago
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
25.0
#124
Coding Index
30.1
#115
GPQA
0.8
#85
HLE
0.2
#87
IFBench
0.8
#15
Time to First Token
4.94s
#439
SciCode
0.4
#68
LCR
0.7
#58
TerminalBench Hard
0.2
#126
TAU2
0.3
#229
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

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandardBatchFlexPriority
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Cache Write
$ / 1M
Cache Write 5m
$ / 1M
Reasoning
$ / 1M
Audio In
$ / 1M
Image In
Web Search
$ / request
Video In
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Audio In
$ / 1M
Image In
$ / 1M
Video In
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 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$0.025$0.025N/A$1.50$0.5$0.25
/ 1M tokens
N/A$0.25$0.125$0.75$0.25$0.125$0.125$0.125$0.75$0.25$0.125$0.125$0.45$2.70$0.9$0.45$0.45
Google Vertex AI logo
Google Vertex AI
gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
$0.25$1.50$0.025$0.025N/A$1.50$0.5$0.25
/ 1M tokens
N/A$0.25$0.125$0.75$0.25$0.125$0.125$0.125$0.75$0.25$0.125$0.125$0.45$2.70$0.9$0.45$0.45
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
$0.25$1.50$0.025N/A$0.0833$1.50$0.5$0.000000
/ image
$0.014N/A
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
$0.25$1.50$0.03N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A

Cost Calculator

US Dollar ($)
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 Tuned$0.412$2.25Available
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Tuned$0.412$2.25Available
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$0.300Deprecated
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview ReasoningAvailable
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite ReasoningAvailable

Other Models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Gemini 3.1 Flash ImageFlash131K$0.500$3.00
Gemini 3 Pro ImagePro66K$2.00$12.00
Gemini 3.5 FlashFlash1.0M$1.50$9.00
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom ToolsPro1.0M$2.00$12.00
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 Flash ReasoningFlash
Gemini 3 ProPro$2.00$12.00

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