Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
Analysis Summary
Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is a lightweight multimodal model with a 1M token context window and support for text, image, audio, and video inputs. It carries tool use and function calling, making it capable of structured automation tasks at a fraction of the cost of Google's flagship models. Intelligence sits in the 'good' range rather than world-class, so it is better suited to high-volume, lower-complexity workloads than deep reasoning tasks.
For businesses, the model's strength is breadth at low cost: content summarisation, document processing, multimodal classification, and customer-facing automation where speed and price matter more than frontier reasoning. The agentic index is modest, so complex multi-step agent pipelines should use a stronger model.
At $0.25/1M input tokens with a 1M context window, it is a strong fit for teams running large-scale content or document workflows on a budget. Teams already in the Google ecosystem will find it easy to integrate alongside Gemini Pro for tiered workloads.
Assessed June 6, 2026
Editorial notes
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview delivers multimodal input across text, image, audio, and video with a 1M token context window, tool use, and function calling at $0.25/1M input, though reasoning depth sits below flagship tier.
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Performance Profile
How Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview compares
Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview ranks #89 of 378 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #87 of 315 for coding, #145 of 289 for agentic tasks. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 97% of the models we list. At $0.25 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 47% of comparable models.
About Google: 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..
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Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.25 | $0.000250 |
| Output | $1.50 | $0.001500 |
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Frequently asked questions about Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
How much does Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview cost?
Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview?
Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview has a context window of 1,048,576 tokens (1M).
Is Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview ranks #87 of 315 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.
What can Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview do?
Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview?
Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is developed by Google and was released on March 3, 2026.
