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Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview Pricing

Google · google-gemini-3-1-flash-lite-preview

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Input / 1M tokens
$0.250
Output / 1M tokens
$1.50
Context window
1,048,576 tokens
≈ 1,398 pages of text
Max output
65,536 tokens

What it costs in practice

Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0009
1,000 requests / month$0.9/mo10,000 requests / month$9.00/mo100,000 requests / month$90.00/mo
Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.

Price history

Only one price point recorded so far.

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What it excels at

Handles high-volume classification, summarization, and basic multimodal inputs at low cost with 1M context support.

The business tradeoff

Weaker on multi-step reasoning and complex analysis than non-Lite Gemini variants; preview status implies potential instability.

Cheaper from Google

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)Google$0.0007/ typical requestGemma 4 26B A4BGoogle$0.0002/ typical request

Same tier from other providers

GPT-5.4 NanoOpenAI$0.0007/ typical requestClaude Haiku 4.5Anthropic$0.0032/ typical requestLlama 3.3 70BMeta$0.0003/ typical request

Head-to-head

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview vs GPT-5.4 Nano →Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview vs Claude Haiku 4.5 →Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview vs Llama 3.3 70B →

Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.