How much does Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite cost?

$0.25 per million input tokens and $1.5 per million output tokens at list price. The cheapest route is $0.125 in and $0.75 out. Hoodgen bills in credits (1 credit = Rs 0.10) and shows the estimate before you send.

What is the context window of Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite?

1,048,576 input tokens with up to 65,536 output tokens.

Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite good for coding?

It is a fast tier model, best for autocomplete, small diffs and review comments.

Does Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite accept images, audio or files?

It accepts text, image, video, file, audio and returns text. Drop an image into the Hoodgen composer and ask about it directly.

How fast is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite?

Artificial Analysis does not publish latency for this release.

What is the Artificial Analysis score of Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite?

Artificial Analysis does not publish an Intelligence Index for this release, so no score is claimed.

How do I use Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite on Hoodgen?

Open Chat, pick Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite in the model menu and send a prompt. No API key, no card, paid in credits. It is also selectable inside Coding, Writer and the other tools.

GoogleFastReleased 7 May 2026

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite pricing, context and benchmark

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is Google’s GA high-efficiency multimodal model optimized for low-latency, high-volume workloads.

Chat with Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite

1.05M

Input context

66K

Output context

$0.25

Official input

$1.5

Official output

n/a

AA index

01 · Model Overview

Everything that matters, in one table

Context, pricing, cache, modalities and tooling, from the model registry and Artificial Analysis.

Model	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
Model ID	google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite
Provider	Google
Release date	7 May 2026
Status	Generally available
Input context	1,048,576 tokens
Output context	65,536 tokens
Official input pricing	$0.25 per 1M tokens
Official output pricing	$1.5 per 1M tokens
Cache read pricing	Not published
Market input pricing	$0.125 per 1M (cheapest route)
Market output pricing	$0.75 per 1M (cheapest route)
Highest route pricing	$0.45 in, $2.7 out per 1M
Input modalities	text · image · video · file · audio
Output modalities	text
Reasoning control	Not exposed
Tool support	Text generation only
Tokenizer	Gemini
Provider routes	8 endpoints
Artificial Analysis index	Not published
Speed	Not published
Knowledge cutoff	Not publicly stated

Input and output support

Modality	Input	Output	Billed at
Text	✓ yes	✓ yes	$0.25 in
Image	✓ yes	no	$0.25 in
Audio	✓ yes	no	$0.25 in
Video	✓ yes	no	$0.25 in
File (PDF)	✓ yes	no	$0.25 in

02 · Overview

What is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is Google’s GA high-efficiency multimodal model optimized for low-latency, high-volume workloads.

It supports text, image, video, audio, and PDF inputs, and is designed for lightweight agentic...

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite carries a 1.05M token window, uses the Gemini tokenizer and is served by Google. On Hoodgen it sits in the Fast tier of the model menu next to its siblings, so you can switch mid conversation without losing the thread.

03 · Release

Release and what changed from the previous version

Released7 May 2026

Property	Gemma 4 26B A4B	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite	Change
Released	2026	2026	Same release window
Context	262K	1.05M	Changed
Max output	236K	66K	Changed
Input price	$0.034	$0.25	Higher
Output price	$0.102	$1.5	Higher
Input modalities	image, text, video	text, image, video, file, audio	Unchanged
AA index	n/a	n/a	Newer benchmark run

04 · Capabilities

Features and capabilities

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Vision

Screenshots, charts and photographed documents are read at the text token rate.

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Files and PDFs

Documents go in as files rather than pasted text, keeping layout and tables intact.

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Audio and video

Calls, meetings and screen recordings can be summarised in one pass.

07 · Use cases

What can you do with Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite?

High volume drafts

Captions, titles, product blurbs and rewrite passes where cost per call dominates.

Inline assistants

Autocomplete, quick replies and menu helpers that must answer inside a second.

Batch classification

Tagging, routing and extraction across thousands of short inputs.

Cheap agent loops

Tool calling loops that do not need frontier grade reasoning.

09 · Pricing

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite pricing

Official pricing

List price

$0.25 / 1M in

$1.5 / 1M out

1.05M context
text, image, video, file, audio input

Cheapest route

$0.125 / 1M in

$0.75 / 1M out

8 routes on OpenRouter
What Hoodgen routes to first
Same model, lower bill

Highest route

$0.45 / 1M in

$2.7 / 1M out

Priority or premium tier
Best under load
Use for latency critical calls

Market pricing, every route

Provider	Tier	Input	Output	Cache read	Uptime 24h
Google	flex	$0.125	$0.75	$0.012	90.8%
Google AI Studio	flex	$0.125	$0.75	$0.012	100.0%
Google AI Studio	standard	$0.25	$1.5	$0.025	100.0%
Google	standard	$0.25	$1.5	$0.025	100.0%
Google	standard	$0.275	$1.65	$0.028	100.0%
Google	standard	$0.275	$1.65	$0.028	100.0%
Google	priority	$0.45	$2.7	$0.045	100.0%
Google AI Studio	priority	$0.45	$2.7	$0.045	100.0%

API pricing and cost calculator

Input tokens per callOutput tokens per callCache hit %Number of calls

Rate	Per call	Total	Credits
Cheapest route	$0.0023	$1.14	1081
List price	$0.0073	$3.63	3444
Highest route	$0.0130	$6.52	6199

10 · Developers

API and developer information

Model ID	google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite
Endpoint	https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions
Parameters	prompt and max_tokens
Streaming	Yes, server sent events
Modality string	text+image+file+audio+video->text
Max prompt tokens	1,048,576
Max completion tokens	65,536

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Summarise this document." }],
    "max_tokens": 1024
  }'

11 · Limitations

Model limitations

Text only output	It cannot generate images, audio or video. Pair it with an image model on Hoodgen when you need visuals.
Output cap	65,536 tokens per request. Long deliverables have to be chunked.
Benchmarks not published	Artificial Analysis does not publish an Intelligence Index for this release, so no benchmark score is claimed here.
Knowledge cutoff	The provider does not state a fixed cutoff for every release. Verify very recent events against search.
Depth ceiling	Fast tier: strong on throughput, weaker than flagship tiers on long multi step reasoning.

12 · Comparison

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs other Google models

Model	Context	Input /1M	Output /1M	AA index	Released
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite	1.05M	$0.25	$1.5	n/a	2026
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview	1.05M	$2	$12	n/a	2026
Gemini 4 Argon	1.05M	$2	$10	50	Oct 2026
Gemini 4 Carbon	1.05M	$2	$10	n/a	2026
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools	1.05M	$2	$12	n/a	2026
Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)	131K	$2	$12	n/a	2026

13 · Privacy

Privacy and data policy

On Hoodgen, prompts and attachments answer that request and stay in your conversation history so you can reopen it. They are not used to train models.
Requests route through OpenRouter to Google and are covered by that provider's API terms.
Do not paste secrets or personal data you would not send to any hosted model.

14 · FAQ

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite questions, answered

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is a fast model from Google, released 7 May 2026. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is Google’s GA high-efficiency multimodal model optimized for low-latency, high-volume workloads.

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