--- title: "Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai" canonical: https://undominated.ai/models/google__gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview/ description: "Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview: $0.250/M in, $1.50/M out. Independent capability scores, and alternatives compared under recorded workload and capability requirements." --- # 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, and alternatives compared under recorded workload and capability requirements. [Check base rates for this workload](/check/google__gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview/) [Cheaper alternatives](/alternatives/google__gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview/) [Family](/families/gemini-3/) [Compare models](https://undominated.ai/compare/?models=google%2Fgemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview) Comparison context Choose up to three standard models in Compare. Requirements and prompt length apply in Compare. This page keeps its stated price basis and workload controls. MODEL PROOF # Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview Google · 03 Mar 2026 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic 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](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/) · Δ score 75.3 points · 4% lower measured price - no file input Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) [LMArena · cc-by-4.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset) 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](#billing-details) 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Seller Google AI Studio google-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% | Input $0.125 | Output $0.750 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.99% | | Seller Google AI Studio google-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% | Input $0.250 | Output $1.50 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.69% | | Seller Google AI Studio google-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% | Input $0.450 | Output $2.70 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.96% | ### Independent scores | LMArena Elo | 1415.7 default | | --- | --- | 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](https://designarena.ai), 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](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) | | --- | --- | | 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. MODEL MONUMENT ## Save or share this proof Download proof card · 1200 × 630 Preview and more sharing options Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview. Balanced workload. Alternative has a trade-off. Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026. Copy model link Download square card · 1080 × 1080 Copy landscape image Share landscape card ## Related - Higher score and cheaper, with a named trade [MiMo-V2.6-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Gemini 2.5 Flash](/models/google__gemini-2.5-flash/) - Same vendor [Gemma 4 26B A4B](/models/google__gemma-4-26b-a4b-it/) - Google models [Google](/providers/google/) - Where this model appears [traps](/traps/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507](/models/qwen__qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507/) - Same vendor [Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite](/models/google__gemini-3.5-flash-lite/) - Where this model appears [significance](/significance/) - Nearby on the capability axis [DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus](/models/deepseek__deepseek-v3.1-terminus/) - Same vendor [Gemma 4 31B](/models/google__gemma-4-31b-it/) - Where this model appears [cheapest-at](/cheapest-at/) - Where this model appears [subscription vs API](/plans/) ## Badge The verdict as one SVG, for a README or a docs page. 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