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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

The replacement for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and the lightest Gemini 3 model, built for high-volume agentic tasks, translation and simple data processing.

Context
1M tokens
Max output
66K
Cutoff
Released
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Hosted API price

List price via Google Cloud · per 1M tokens

USD
Input
$0.25 /1M
Output
$1.50 /1M
Hosted by
Google Cloud 1 provider

Hosted API pricing

How we price

Order

Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.

Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

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Every provider serving Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Every provider serving Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider Input /1M Output /1M Cached input /1M Cost at 10M in + 2M out Link
Google Cloud logo Google Cloud Creator $0.25 $1.50 $0.03 $5.50 Visit website

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model Blended /1M Input /1M Output /1M Context Cutoff vs Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
DeepSeek DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek $0.4117 $0.27 $1.12 128K −10%
Alibaba Cloud Qwen3.7-Plus Alibaba Cloud $0.4167 $0.28 $1.10 1M −9%
Alibaba Cloud Qwen3-VL-Plus Alibaba Cloud $0.4333 $0.20 $1.60 262K −5%
DeepSeek DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek $0.45 $0.30 $1.20 1M −2%
MiniMax MiniMax-M2.5 MiniMax $0.45 $0.30 $1.20 205K −2%
Google Cloud Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite This model Google Cloud $0.4583 $0.25 $1.50 1M Jan 2025
Alibaba Cloud Qwen3.6-Flash Alibaba Cloud $0.4583 $0.25 $1.50 1M 0%
Alibaba Cloud Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B Instruct Alibaba Cloud $0.50 $0.30 $1.50 262K +9%
DeepSeek DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek $0.5233 $0.45 $0.89 1M +14%
OpenAI GPT-5 Mini OpenAI $0.5417 $0.25 $2.00 400K May 2024 +18%
DeepSeek DeepSeek V3 Turbo DeepSeek $0.55 $0.40 $1.30 64K +20%

USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

Capabilities

What Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite accepts and can do, as published by Google Cloud.

  • Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
  • Image Accepts images as input alongside text.
  • Video Accepts video as input.
  • Audio Accepts audio as input.
  • Reasoning Thinks before it answers, always on or as a switchable mode.
  • Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems.
  • Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.
  • Web search Search the web for up-to-date information.
  • Code execution Write and execute code in a sandboxed environment.
  • File upload Process uploaded documents, spreadsheets, and other files.

Common questions

What is Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite good for?

High-volume translation, audio transcription, light data extraction, document summarising and routing by task complexity. It sits in the lower half of Google's price range.

When is Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite not a good fit?

Closed weights, so no self-hosting, and output is text only. Google lists Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite as its successor, so new Flash-Lite work has a newer option.

What is the cheapest way to run Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite?

The cheapest hosted rate is $0.25 / $1.50 per 1M tokens via Google Cloud.

How does Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite compare with Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite?

Google says Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is much better in quality than Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite at every thinking level, and aims it at high-throughput work like agentic search and document processing. Same 1M-token context and text, image, audio and video input. Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite lists at 17% less per 1M input tokens and 40% less per 1M output tokens than Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite. It came out 4 months earlier and has an older knowledge cutoff (January 2025 against March 2026).

Can I self-host Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite?

No. Google Cloud does not publish the weights; Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is available only through hosted APIs.

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