Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

Language Google Verified Deprecated Shuts down May 7, 2027 Replaced by Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Released May 7, 2026
  • In Input modalities: TextImageVideoAudioPDF Out Output modalities: Text
  • Reasoning· minimal, low, medium, high
  • Tool use
  • Structured output

Prices

3 offerings · prices as listed
Gemini API (opens in a new tab) Official Global · USD gemini-3.1-flash-lite
Conditions/ 1M tokensInputCache readOutput
Standard ——$1.50
Text tokens Standard $0.25$0.025—
Image tokens $0.25$0.025—
Audio tokens $0.50$0.050—
Video tokens $0.25$0.025—
Flex tier ——$0.75
Priority tier ——$2.70
Batch ——$0.75
Text tokensFlex tier $0.125$0.0125—
Text tokensPriority tier $0.45$0.045—
Text tokensBatch $0.125$0.0125—
Image tokensFlex tier $0.125$0.0125—
Image tokensPriority tier $0.45$0.045—
Image tokensBatch $0.125$0.0125—
Audio tokensFlex tier $0.25$0.025—
Audio tokensPriority tier $0.90$0.090—
Audio tokensBatch $0.25$0.025—
Video tokensFlex tier $0.125$0.0125—
Video tokensPriority tier $0.45$0.045—
Video tokensBatch $0.125$0.0125—

Prices from Gemini API pricing (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 8, 2026)

Standard: the price a request with no conditions pays (the headline price elsewhere on the site).

Details

Max input
1M
Built-in tools
Web search, Web fetch, Code execution
Knowledge cutoff
Jan 2025
Open weights
—
Family
gemini-flash-lite
Model ID

Not stated on Google’s pages: reasoning can be off, max thinking budget, aliases.

Cited scores

From third-party leaderboards, not measured by us
  • Epoch Capabilities Index 144.9

    #80 of 118 listed models · CI 142.7–147.2

  • Epoch AI · FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 27.7%

    #66 of 84 listed models · high effort · ±2.66

    Also listed: low effort 22.5% · minimal effort 21.4%

  • Epoch AI · GPQA Diamond 81.8%

    #78 of 168 listed models · high effort · ±2.75

    Also listed: low effort 74.2% · minimal effort 73.7%

  • Epoch AI · OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 80%

    #81 of 159 listed models · high effort · ±6.03

    Also listed: low effort 44.4% · minimal effort 37.8%

  • Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks'. Licensed CC BY 4.0. · License · as of Oct 28 – Nov 5, 2026
  • changes we made
  1. Available → Deprecated

Sources

Google’s official policies: data use, privacy, terms →

Google · United States · ai.google.dev

Snapshots, the same family and other models from this provider