Author's Description
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is Google’s GA high-efficiency multimodal model optimized for low-latency, high-volume workloads. It supports text, image, video, audio, and PDF inputs, and is designed for lightweight agentic...
Key Specifications
Supported Parameters
This model supports the following parameters:
Features
This model supports the following features:
Performance Summary
Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite, a high-efficiency multimodal model, demonstrates strong overall performance, particularly excelling in speed and reliability. It consistently ranks among the fastest models, achieving the 85th percentile across eight benchmarks, and offers competitive pricing, typically falling within the 63rd percentile. A standout feature is its exceptional reliability, boasting a 100% success rate across all benchmarks, indicating minimal technical failures. The model exhibits perfect accuracy in Hallucinations (Baseline) and Ethics (Baseline) benchmarks, correctly identifying "I don't know" for fictional concepts and adhering to ethical principles, respectively. It also shows impressive performance in Mathematics (Baseline) with 97.0% accuracy, placing it in the 98th percentile and making it the most accurate among models of comparable speed. Instruction Following (Baseline) and Email Classification (Baseline) also show high accuracy at 82.0% and 99.0% respectively. While General Knowledge (Baseline) and Coding (Baseline) are solid at 99.5% and 90.0%, they represent areas where the model performs well but not at the very top tier. Reasoning (Baseline) is competent at 86.0%. Its optimization for low-latency, high-volume workloads is evident in its speed and cost-effectiveness across various tasks.
Model Pricing
Current Pricing
| Feature | Price (per 1M tokens) |
|---|---|
| Prompt | $0.25 |
| Completion | $1.5 |
| Input Cache Read | $0.025 |
| Input Cache Write | $0.0833 |
| Internal Reasoning | $1.5 |
| Web Search | $14000 |
Price History
Available Endpoints
| Provider | Endpoint Name | Context Length | Pricing (Input) | Pricing (Output) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Google
|
Google | google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-20260507 | 1M | $0.25 / 1M tokens | $1.5 / 1M tokens |
|
Google AI Studio
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Google AI Studio | google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-20260507 | 1M | $0.25 / 1M tokens | $1.5 / 1M tokens |
Benchmark Results
| Benchmark | Category | Reasoning | Strategy | Free | Executions | Accuracy | Cost | Duration |
|---|
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Image input
Text input
Video input
Text output
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Text input
Video input
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Text input
Video input
Text output
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★★ | ★★★★★ | $$ |
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Image input
Text input
Video input
Text output
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★ | ★★★★★ | $$ |
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Image input
Text input
Audio output
Text output
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— | — | $ |
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Image input
Text input
Audio output
Text output
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— | — | $ |
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview | Mar 02, 2026 | — | 1M |
Image input
File input
Audio input
Text input
Video input
Text output
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★★★★★ | ★★★★ | $$$ |
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Image input
Text input
Image output
Text output
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★★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
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Image input
Text input
Image output
Text output
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★★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools | Feb 25, 2026 | — | 1M |
Image input
File input
Audio input
Text input
Video input
Text output
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★★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | Feb 19, 2026 | — | 1M |
File input
Image input
Audio input
Text input
Video input
Text output
|
★★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Dec 17, 2025 | — | 1M |
Image input
File input
Audio input
Text input
Video input
Text output
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★★★★★ | ★★★★★ | $$$ |
| Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) | Nov 20, 2025 | — | 65K |
Image input
Text input
Image output
Text output
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— | ★ | $$$$$ |
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Image input
File input
Audio input
Text input
Video input
Text output
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★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
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Image input
Text input
Image output
Text output
|
— | — | $$$$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025 Unavailable | Sep 25, 2025 | — | 1M |
Image input
File input
Audio input
Text input
Video input
Text output
|
★★★★ | ★★★★ | $$$$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | — | 1M |
Image input
File input
Audio input
Text input
Video input
Text output
|
★★★★★ | ★★★ | $$$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview (Nano Banana) Unavailable | Aug 26, 2025 | — | 32K |
Image input
Text input
Image output
Text output
|
— | — | $$$$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | Jul 22, 2025 | — | 1M |
Image input
File input
Audio input
Text input
Video input
Text output
|
★★★★★ | ★★★ | $$$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 06-17 Unavailable | Jun 17, 2025 | — | 1M |
File input
Image input
Audio input
Text input
Text output
|
★★★★ | ★★★ | $$$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash | Jun 17, 2025 | — | 1M |
File input
Image input
Audio input
Text input
Video input
Text output
|
★★★★ | ★★★ | $$$$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro | Jun 17, 2025 | — | 1M |
Image input
File input
Audio input
Text input
Video input
Text output
|
★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | Jun 05, 2025 | — | 1M |
File input
Image input
Audio input
Text input
Text output
|
★★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Google: Gemma 1 2B Unavailable | May 28, 2025 | 2B | 8K |
Text input
Text output
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— | — | $$ |
| Google: Gemma 3n 4B | May 20, 2025 | 4B | 32K |
Text input
Text output
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★★★ | ★★ | $ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 05-20 Unavailable | May 20, 2025 | — | 1M |
Image input
File input
Text input
Text output
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★★★★ | ★★★★ | $$$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 | May 06, 2025 | — | 1M |
Image input
File input
Audio input
Text input
Video input
Text output
|
★ | ★★★★★ | $$$$$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 04-17 Unavailable | Apr 17, 2025 | — | 1M |
Image input
File input
Text input
Text output
|
★★★★★ | ★★★★★ | $$$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental Unavailable | Mar 25, 2025 | — | 1M |
Image input
File input
Text input
Text output
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— | — | $ |
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Image input
Text input
Text output
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★★★ | ★ | $$ |
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Image input
Text input
Text output
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Image input
Text input
Text output
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★★★ | ★★★ | $$ |
| Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite | Feb 25, 2025 | — | 1M |
Image input
File input
Audio input
Text input
Video input
Text output
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★★★★★ | ★★ | $$ |
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Image input
File input
Audio input
Text input
Video input
Text output
|
★★★★★ | ★★★ | $$ |
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Image input
Text input
Text output
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★★★★★ | ★★ | $ |
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Text input
Text output
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★★★★ | ★★ | $$$ |
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Text input
Text output
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★★★ | ★ | $$ |
| Google: Gemini 1.5 Flash Unavailable | May 13, 2024 | ~500B | 1M |
Image input
Text input
Text output
|
★★★★★ | ★★★ | $$ |
| Google: Gemini 1.5 Pro Unavailable | Apr 08, 2024 | ~1T | 2M |
Image input
Text input
Text output
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★★★★ | ★★★ | $$$$ |