Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite — pricing and what it's actually good for

Google positions Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite as frontier-class performance at a fraction of the cost. Audio input is billed at a higher rate than text, image or video. Context window and max output tokens are not published on Google's pricing or models overview pages and are recorded as unknown rather than taken from a third party. Pricing captured from Google's own pricing page, 2026-08-07 11:51 UTC.

Released: 7 May 2026
API identifier: gemini-3.1-flash-lite

Pricing · per 1M tokens

Input$0.25

Output$1.50

Checked against Google Gemini API pricing on 7 Aug 2026, 11:51 UTC

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Sources: Google Gemini API pricing · Google Gemini models overview

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