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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Score, Price and Context Window
Data updated
- Closed weights
- Released Mar 2026
Its score range overlaps with DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, the model just above it, so a small gap in rank is not a meaningful difference.
Best for
- Very long documents: its context window is 1M tokens, roughly 786,000 words.
- Keeping costs low: it is among the cheapest quarter of models in the top half by score.
These lines are worked out from the numbers on this page, not from hands-on testing.
Key facts
- Price per million tokens
- $0.25 in / $1.50 out
- Blended $0.56. Cached input $0.025. List price from Google, checked 26 Oct 2026.
Features listed by the price list: Image input, PDF input, Audio input, Tool use, Reasoning, Web search, Prompt caching, Structured output.
How Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite stacks up
- Overall capability144.3
Better than 65% of the other 269 modelsUpper half
Epoch Capabilities Index: one score that combines many tests.
- Human preference: chat1433
Better than 51% of the other 165 modelsUpper half
How often people pick its answers over another model's on Arena.
- Human preference: coding1458
Better than 43% of the other 165 models
How often people pick its answers to coding questions on Arena.
- Human preference: web pages1256
Better than 4% of the other 84 models
How often people pick the web pages and small apps it builds on Arena.
- Human preference: images1235
Better than 36% of the other 84 models
How often people pick its answers about pictures on Arena.
- Price$0.56 per 1M
Cheaper than 65% of the other 200 priced modelsUpper half
Blended price per million tokens. Lower is better, so the cheapest models sit on the right.
- Context window1M tokens
Larger context window than 84% of the other 198 modelsTop 25%
How much text it can read at once. Bigger suits long documents.
Where Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite ranks
Test results
GPQA Diamond
Very hard multiple-choice science questions in biology, physics and chemistry, written by experts and designed so a quick web search does not give the answer.
OTIS Mock AIME
Maths competition problems in the style of the US AIME exam, from the 2024 and 2025 sets. Every answer is a whole number.
80.0%
Place 86 of 174
tied with 1 other
Humanity's Last Exam
A large set of very hard, expert-written questions across many subjects, built to stay difficult for top AI models.
8.6%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)
Original, very hard maths problems written by mathematicians. Each has an exact answer and the problems are kept private so models cannot have memorised them. This is the Tiers 1 to 3 set, version 2.
27.7%
What it costs in everyday terms
- 100 chats
- $0.10
- Cost of 100 chats assumes each chat sends 1,000 tokens (about 750 words) and gets 500 tokens (about 375 words) back.
- A 300-page book
- $0.03
- Cost to read a 300-page book assumes about 100,000 input tokens and no reply. A real book varies with page size and language.
- Blended price
- $0.56 per 1M
- Three parts input to one part output. Our own calculation for comparing models.
Assumptions: 100 chats of about 1,000 tokens in and 500 tokens back. a 300-page book of about 100,000 tokens, read once with no reply.
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Questions about Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
- How much does Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite cost?
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens, using the list price from Google as of 26 Oct 2026. That is about $0.10 for 100 chats of about 1,000 tokens in and 500 tokens back. Confirm on the maker's site before you buy, because prices change.
- What is the context window of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite?
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has a context window of 1M tokens, roughly 786,000 words of text read at once. A single answer can be up to 66K tokens long.
- Is Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite open source?
- We list Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite as closed: it is used through its maker's apps or API and its weights are not published (Epoch AI lists its access as "API access").
- How good is Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite compared with other AI models?
- On the Epoch Capabilities Index, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite scores 144.3 (likely range 142.3 to 145.7), which ranks 93 of 270 models we track. On Arena's human-vote text board it is ranked 81 of 166. Scores close together are a tie in practice.
- How does Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite compare with Grok 4 Fast?
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite scores higher on 2 of 4 shared quality measures, Grok 4 Fast on 0. 2 measures are too close to call. See the full comparison for every measure.
- How current are these numbers for Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite?
- The newest data on this page is dated 26 Oct 2026. Scores come from Epoch AI and Arena, prices from the open LiteLLM price list.
Where this data comes from
- Epoch AI: Benchmark data: Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking', epoch.ai/benchmarks (CC BY 4.0). We match models across sources, rank them and show them in charts. Scores are not changed. Epoch AI does not endorse this site.
- Arena (formerly LMArena): Human-preference ratings: Arena (arena.ai) leaderboard dataset, CC BY 4.0. We keep the latest published ratings, match them to models from other sources and rank them. Ratings are not changed. Arena does not endorse this site.
- LiteLLM model price list: Prices and context windows: LiteLLM model price list (github.com/BerriAI/litellm, MIT licence). We use the model maker's own price entry when there is one. Prices change often, so always confirm on the maker's site before you buy.
Newest data on this page: 26 Oct 2026. Prices are list prices and change often, so confirm on the maker's site before you buy. Sponsors never change a score or an order. How we calculate this · Report a mistake