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# Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview: $0.250/M in, $1.50/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview

Google · released 2026-03-03

 $0.563 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 scores higher and costs less — but you would give something up.

**+26.2** on the capability index and **81% cheaper** ($0.105/M against $0.563/M). What you lose:

 - no image, video, file, audio input

Capability scores do not measure context length, output ceiling or which inputs a model accepts, so a higher score does not mean a drop-in replacement.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.250 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $1.50 /M |
| Cached input | $0.025 /M |
| Cache write | $0.083 /M |
| Reasoning | $1.50 /M |
| Web search | $0.014 /call |

**Reasoning tokens are billed separately** at $1.50/M, on top of output. On a reasoning-heavy workload this can be 40% of the bill and it does not appear in the advertised price.

### Independent scores

| Intelligence | 25.6 |
| --- | --- |
| Coding | 34.7 |
| Agentic | 6.5 |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

#### Best rankings by task

 - asciiart #23 of 83 1194

### Capability

| Context window | 1.0M |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 66K |
| Input modes | text, image, video, file, audio |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| 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...