MODEL PROOF
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
TRADE-OFF
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher score and an equal-or-lower price, with capability losses.
Reasoning tokens are billed separately.
MiMo-V2.6-Pro · Δ score 75.3 points · 4% lower measured price
- no file input
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,415.7 ± 3.63 · 64,047 votes
- Context window
- 1.05M
- Maximum output
- 65.54K
- Input modalities
- text, image, video, file, audio
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $0.250 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $1.50 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from Google AI Studio: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate.
Cheaper right now: $0.281/M at Google AI Studio — delivery tier (flex) It does not pass the like-for-like test, so it never sets a rank.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $0.250/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $1.50/M |
| Cached input | $0.025/M |
| Cache write | $0.083/M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown/M |
| Reasoning | $1.50/M |
| Web search | $0.014/call |
Reasoning tokens are billed separately at $1.50/M, on top of output. Its share of your bill depends on the reasoning tokens used.
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
3 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studio/flex Endpoint terms
| $0.125 | $0.750 | undeclared | 99.99% |
| Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studio Endpoint terms
| $0.250 | $1.50 | undeclared | 99.69% |
| Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studio/priority Endpoint terms
| $0.450 | $2.70 | undeclared | 99.96% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1415.7default |
|---|
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Best rankings by task
- ASCII art #30 1177
- SVG #71 1051
- UI components #95 1078
- 3D #96 1056
- Code categories #98 1076
- Websites #101 1089
- Data visualisation #102 1053
- Game development #105 1042
Per-task Elo and rank from Design Arena, via OpenRouter’s model feed. The rank is the feed’s, and it counts models OpenRouter does not list.
Capability
| Context window | 1M |
|---|---|
| Max output | 65K |
| Input modes | text, image, video, file, audio |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Open weights | no |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | verified |
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...
Questions this page answers
What does Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview cost?
$0.250/M in, $1.50/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview have an independent quality score?
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview has an LMArena score in this catalogue.
What beats Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview?
MiMo-V2.6-Pro has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price, with capability trade-offs.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
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