Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview: API pricing, providers and specs
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is a text model by Google. 8 providers serve it, from $1.20 to $1.59 /1M; the lowest price is at APIMart.
How Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Mid-priced: its lowest price is $1.20 /1M against a median of $1.10; 52% of comparable models cost less.
- Its 1.05M-token context window is larger than 83% of them (median 262K), about 1570 pages of text.
- On LMArena's Text board it ranks #31 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
- 8 providers serve it; 73% of comparable models have fewer.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APIMart | — | $0.008/img | — | — |
| APIMart | $0.20/1M | $1.20/1M | — | — |
 CometAPI | $0.20/1M | $1.20/1M | $0.02/1M | — |
 OrcaRouter | $0.25/1M | $1.50/1M | $0.025/1M | 1.05M |
| OpenRouter | $0.25/1M | From$1.50/1M | $0.025/1M | 1.05M |
 APIYI | $0.25/1M | $1.50/1M | — | — |
 LaoZhang API | $0.25/1M | $1.50/1M | — | — |
 Helicone | $0.25/1M | From$1.50/1M | $0.025/1M | — |
| AI/ML API | $0.265/1M | $1.59/1M | $0.026/1M | — |
- APIMart$1.20
- CometAPI$1.20
- OrcaRouter$1.50
- APIYI$1.50
- LaoZhang API$1.50
- OpenRouterFrom$1.50
- HeliconeFrom$1.50
- AI/ML API$1.59
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Inputs
- Audio, Image, Text, Video
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 1.05M≈ 1570 pages of text
- Max output
- 66K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, JSON, Reasoning, Tool calling, Vision
- Released
- Mar 3, 2026
- License
- proprietary
- Open weights
- No, API only
- Arena score
- 1416Text
Alternatives to Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
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| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Previewthis model | $1.20/1M | 1.05M | 1416 | 8 |
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| GLM-5.2 | $1.80/1M | 1M | 1604 | 44 |
| Grok Build 0.1 | $1.60/1M | 256K | — | 18 |
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The lowest price for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is $1.20 /1M, at APIMart.
APIMart, at $1.20 /1M. 8 providers serve Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview; the table above lists every one with its price.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview reads up to 1.05M tokens per request and writes up to 66K.
No. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is only available through an API; Google does not publish its weights.
8 API providers serve Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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