Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
Google · Multimodal · Released May 2026
Google's lightweight text-only model with a 1M token context window, built on the Gemini 3.1 Flash architecture for efficient inference.
- Strengths
- Delivers fast response times and low latency while maintaining a large context window, making it suitable for applications that prioritize speed without sacrificing document-handling capacity.
- Best for
- High-volume text processing, real-time applications, and latency-sensitive workloads where quick throughput matters more than maximum reasoning capability.
- Limitations
- Text-only with no multimodal support; trades reasoning depth for speed compared to larger or more capable Gemini models, making it less suited for complex analytical tasks.
Input / 1M
$0.25
Output / 1M
$1.50
Cached input / 1M
$0.025
Context window
1.05M
Also billed
- Cache write
- $0.0833 / 1M
- Audio input
- $0.5 / 1M
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Snapshots
| Effective | Input | Output | Cached in | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Jun 2026 | $0.25 | $1.50 | $0.025 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 11 Jun 2026 | $0.25 | $1.50 | $0.025 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |