Google: Gemini 3.1 flash lite preview
google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is Google's high-efficiency model optimized for high-volume use cases. It outperforms Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite on overall quality and approaches Gemini 2.5 Flash performance across key capabilities. Improvements span audio input/ASR, RAG snippet ranking, translation, data extraction, and code completion. Supports full thinking levels (minimal, low, medium, high) for fine-grained cost/performance trade-offs. Priced at half the cost of Gemini 3 Flash.
Model specifications
- Input
- text, image, video, audio, file
- Output
- text
- Context
- 1,048,576 tokens
- Max output
- 65,535 tokens
- Input price
- $0.25 / 1M tokens
- Output price
- $1.5 / 1M tokens
- Released
- 2026-03-04
Capabilities
- Streaming
- Function calling
- Vision
- JSON mode
- Playground
Provider pricing, discounts and data privacy
Compare effective provider prices, published discounts, regions, retention policies, training use, compliance, and privacy links by service tier.
Standard service tier
2 available providers · discounts up to 25.000000000000007% · tier input average $0.21875 / 1M tokens · tier output average $1.3125 / 1M tokens
Google Vertex
Tier: Standard · Region: US
Pricing
- Input
- $0.1875 / 1M tokens
- Output
- $1.125 / 1M tokens
- Cache read
- $0.01875 / 1M tokens
Discounts
- Input: 25% off — list $0.25 / 1M tokens, discounted $0.1875 / 1M tokens, effective $0.1875 / 1M tokens
- Cache read: 25% off — list $0.025 / 1M tokens, discounted $0.01875 / 1M tokens, effective $0.01875 / 1M tokens
- Output: 25% off — list $1.5 / 1M tokens, discounted $1.125 / 1M tokens, effective $1.125 / 1M tokens
Data privacy and compliance
- Region
- US
- Zero data retention
- Yes
- Data retention
- Zero retention
- Used for training
- No
- Data collection
- Moderated
- No
- GDPR compliant
- Yes
- HIPAA compliant
- Yes
- SOC 2 certified
- Yes
- BYOK supported
- Yes
Privacy policy · Terms · Official website · Documentation · Status · Support
Google AI Studio
Tier: Standard · Region: US
Pricing
- Input
- $0.25 / 1M tokens
- Output
- $1.5 / 1M tokens
- Cache read
- $0.025 / 1M tokens
No provider discount is currently published.
Data privacy and compliance
- Region
- US
- Zero data retention
- No
- Data retention
- 55-day retention
- Used for training
- No
- Data collection
- Moderated
- No
- GDPR compliant
- Yes
- HIPAA compliant
- No
- SOC 2 certified
- No
- BYOK supported
- Yes
Privacy policy · Terms · Official website · Documentation · Status · Support
Frequently asked questions
- What is Google: Gemini 3.1 flash lite preview?
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is Google's high-efficiency model optimized for high-volume use cases. It outperforms Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite on overall quality and approaches Gemini 2.5 Flash performance across key capabilities. Improvements span audio input/ASR, RAG snippet ranking, translation, data extraction, and code completion. Supports full thinking levels (minimal, low, medium, high) for fine-grained cost/performance trade-offs. Priced at half the cost of Gemini 3 Flash.
- How much does Google: Gemini 3.1 flash lite preview cost?
- Input costs start at $0.25 / 1M tokens and output costs start at $1.5 / 1M tokens. Provider-level prices vary by service tier.
- Are provider discounts available for Google: Gemini 3.1 flash lite preview?
- Yes. Current provider offers include discounts of up to 25% from list price. The provider table shows list, discounted, and effective prices.
- What is the context length of Google: Gemini 3.1 flash lite preview?
- Google: Gemini 3.1 flash lite preview supports a 1,048,576 token context window and up to 65,535 output tokens.
- What capabilities does Google: Gemini 3.1 flash lite preview support?
- Google: Gemini 3.1 flash lite preview supports Streaming, Function calling, Vision, JSON mode, Playground.
- Which providers offer Google: Gemini 3.1 flash lite preview?
- Google: Gemini 3.1 flash lite preview is available from Google Vertex, Google AI Studio.
- How do providers handle data privacy for Google: Gemini 3.1 flash lite preview?
- 2 of 2 providers report that customer data is not used for training, and 1 offer zero-data-retention routing. Retention, compliance, and privacy-policy links are listed per provider.