Google · Released Mar 3, 2026Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
Low-latency Gemini model for high-volume multimodal and agent workloads.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.25per 1M tokens
- Output
- $1.50per 1M tokens
- Context
- 1.05M66K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.25per million tokens
- Output
- $1.50per million tokens
- Cached input
- $0.025per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.563cheaper than 57% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $1.25 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $13.75 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $137.50 |
Official Google API price, as listed on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview yet.
The details
- Lab
- Released
- Mar 3, 2026
- Knowledge cutoff
- Jan 2025
- Context window
- 1,048,576 tokens
- Max output
- 65,536 tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Images, PDFs, Audio, Video
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- Adjustable effort minimal · low · medium · high
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- Yes
- Weights
- Proprietary
- API model ID
gemini-3.1-flash-lite-previewon Google- Availability
- 10 API providerslisted on models.dev
- Status
- Deprecated by the provider
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About Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
How much does Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview cost?
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview costs $0.25 input / $1.50 output per million tokens (official Google API price). Cached input is $0.025 per million tokens. At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.563 per million tokens, cheaper than 57% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview?
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview accepts up to 1,048,576 tokens per request and can write up to 65,536 tokens in one response.
How good is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview yet.
Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview open source?
No. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is proprietary; you use it through Google’s API or partner platforms.
What inputs does Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview support?
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview accepts text, images, PDFs, audio and video and replies in text. It is a reasoning model with minimal, low, medium and high effort settings, supports tool calling and can return structured JSON output.
When was Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview released?
Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview on Mar 3, 2026. Its training data runs to Jan 2025.
What are the best alternatives to Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are MiniMax-M2 Her (MiniMax, $0.30 / $1.20), MiMo-V2.5-Pro (Xiaomi, $0.435 / $0.87), Qwen3 Coder Next (Alibaba (Qwen), $0.20 / $1.20) and Mercury 2 (Inception, $0.25 / $0.75).