Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
by GoogleGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is a large language model from Google. It costs $0.250 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens. Its context window is 1.0M tokens.
- Input / 1M tokens
- $0.250
- Output / 1M tokens
- $1.50
- Cached input / 1M
- $0.025
- Context window
- 1.0M
On repeated prefixes
tokens
This model also charges $0.014 per search request
That is $14.00 per 1,000 requests, billed on top of the token prices above. On a typical 1,000-in / 500-out exchange the tokens cost $0.001, so the search fee is 14× the token cost. Per-token rankings elsewhere ignore this entirely.
Who serves it cheapest
1 hosts serve Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview. Same weights, same API - the price difference is pure margin and routing.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Throughput | Uptime 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google AI StudioCheapest | $0.125 | $0.750 | 1.0M | - | 100.0% |
Benchmarks
Independent scores published alongside the catalogue.
- Intelligence index
- 15.6
- Coding index
- 34.7
- Agentic index
- 1.6
About Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is Google's high-efficiency model optimized for high-volume use cases. It outperforms Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite on overall quality and approaches Gemini 2.5 Flash performance across...
Specifications
| Model ID | google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview |
|---|---|
| Provider | |
| Context window | 1.0M tokens |
| Max output | 66K tokens |
| Input modalities | text, image, video, file, audio |
| Output modalities | text |
| Knowledge cutoff | - |
| Open weights | No |
| Released | March 3, 2026 |
Cheaper alternatives
Models that cost less than Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview while keeping at least half its context window and every input modality it supports.
Frequently asked
How much does Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview cost?
$0.250 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens. Cached input reads cost $0.025 per million tokens.
What is the context window of Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview?
1.0M tokens, with up to 66K tokens of output per request.
Does Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview have extra fees beyond per-token pricing?
Yes. Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview charges $0.014 per search request - $14.00 per 1,000 requests - on top of $0.250 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens. On a typical 1,000-input / 500-output exchange the search fee alone is 14× the token cost.
Confirm against the source: Google official pricing.