Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview

Google's most cost-efficient Gemini model. Optimized for low latency, high-volume use cases at a fraction of the cost of larger models.

Input price
$0.225list $0.25-10%
Output price
$1.35list $1.50-10%
Context
1M
Max output
66K
Modalities
InputTextImageAudioVideoPDFOutputText
144 (#65 of 89)
1416
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Released
2026-03-03
Knowledge cutoff
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Providers

Providers that serve this model. With Auto, each request goes to the best available provider. Prices in USD per 1M tokens; stats cover the last 30 days.

Pricing

All prices for this model, by service tier.

Input
$0.225list $0.25-10%
per 1M tokens
Output
$1.35list $1.50-10%
per 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.0225list $0.025-10%
per 1M tokens
Reasoning output
$1.35list $1.50-10%
per 1M tokens
Audio input
$0.45list $0.50-10%
per 1M tokens
Web search
$0.0126list $0.014-10%
per request

Make a request

Set your provider preferences, then copy the request. It reads your API key from OHMYGPT_API_KEY.

Google Gemini supports pinning one provider only. Other preferences work with Chat Completions and Responses.

curl https://api.ohmygpt.com/v1/models/google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview:generateContent \
  -H "x-goog-api-key: $OHMYGPT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "contents": [
      {
        "parts": [
          {
            "text": "Hello"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }'

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Capability scores are from Epoch AI’s Epoch Capabilities Index (CC BY 4.0, as of 2026-11-02), which combines dozens of benchmarks with GPT-5 set at 150. epoch.ai/eci

Price: our current input price per 1M tokens in USD, lowest across channels. Dated snapshots and resold copies of the same model are merged into one point; free models are not shown.

Shaded area: capability above and price below the median of all models. Pareto frontier: no other model is both cheaper and more capable.

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Human preference ratings are from the LMArena Text Arena (CC BY 4.0, as of 2026-10-28): Elo ratings from blind votes, on a different scale from capability scores. lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text