Audience
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is designed for developers, AI engineers, and enterprise teams who need a fast, cost-effective model for high-volume, real-time applications at scale
About Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is Google’s fastest and most cost-efficient model in the Gemini 3 series, designed for high-volume developer workloads. It delivers strong performance at scale while maintaining affordability, with pricing set at $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens. The model significantly improves speed, offering a 2.5x faster time to first answer token and a 45% increase in output speed compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash. Despite its lower cost tier, it achieves high benchmark results, including an Elo score of 1432 and strong performance across reasoning and multimodal evaluations. Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite supports adaptive “thinking levels,” allowing developers to control how much reasoning power is used for different tasks. It is suitable for large-scale applications such as translation, content moderation, user interface generation, and simulation building.