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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.

$0.563 / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out

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 1hUnknown/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.

SellerInputOutputPrecisionUptime (1d)
Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studio/flex
Endpoint terms
Cached input /M
$0.013
Context limit
1,048,576 tokens
Output limit
65,536 tokens
Tools
Listed by endpoint
Reasoning
Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount
None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes
100.00%
$0.125 $0.750 undeclared 99.99%
Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studio
Endpoint terms
Cached input /M
$0.025
Context limit
1,048,576 tokens
Output limit
65,536 tokens
Tools
Listed by endpoint
Reasoning
Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount
None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes
99.60%
$0.250 $1.50 undeclared 99.69%
Google AI Studiogoogle-ai-studio/priority
Endpoint terms
Cached input /M
$0.045
Context limit
1,048,576 tokens
Output limit
65,536 tokens
Tools
Listed by endpoint
Reasoning
Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount
None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes
100.00%
$0.450 $2.70 undeclared 99.96%

Independent scores

LMArena Elo1415.7default

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 window1M
Max output65K
Input modestext, image, video, file, audio
Tool useyes
Reasoningoptional
Open weightsno

Provenance

Price sourceopenrouter.ai
Fetched2026-10-06
Quality dataverified

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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