google / text-generation API-only released 2026-03-03

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview

Name: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
Price: 0.25 USD
Author: google

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...

Input / 1M

$0.25

Output / 1M

$1.50

Context

AA Intelligence

15.6

Closed weights — available only as a hosted API text + image + video + file + audio → text View on OpenRouter ↗

Pricing

via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-10-24

$0.25

input / 1M

$1.50

output / 1M

$0.025

cached input / 1M

$1.75

1M in + 1M out

Context window: 1,048,576 tokens
Max output: 65,536 tokens
Providers: 1
Cheapest provider: Google AI Studio · $0.13 / $0.75
Best throughput: —
AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic: 15.6 / 34.7 / 1.6

✓ Tool calling ✓ Reasoning ✓ Structured outputs ✓ Image input ✓ File input ✓ Audio input ✓ Prompt caching

Price history

tracking started — chart appears after 7 days of snapshots (6 recorded)

Current: $0.25 input · $1.50 output per 1M tokens

Benchmarks

Third-party indices as published through OpenRouter — Artificial Analysis and Design Arena. Not measured by us.

AA Intelligence Index: 15.6
AA Coding Index: 34.7
AA Agentic Index: 1.6

Design Arena

CategoryEloWin %Rank

3d 1048 38.8% #105

asciiart 1167 50.8% #32

codecategories 1072 36.5% #109

dataviz 1045 33.3% #110

gamedev 1029 33.7% #119

svg 1053 42.5% #74

uicomponent 1069 37.7% #104

website 1083 36.6% #114

Providers

1 provider · per 1M tokens · last 30 min metrics

Provider	Quant	Context	Input	Output	Uptime	Tok/s
Google AI Studio	unknown	1M	$0.13	$0.75	100%	—
Google AI Studio	unknown	1M	$0.25	$1.50	100%	—
Google AI Studio	unknown	1M	$0.45	$2.70	100%	—

Provider data from OpenRouter's endpoint listing, refreshed daily.

Specifications

Organisation: google
Released on OpenRouter: 2026-03-03
Context window: 1,048,576 tokens
Max output: 65,536 tokens
Input: text, image, video, file, audio
Output: text
Tokenizer: Gemini
Moderated by provider: No
OpenRouter id: google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview

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