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Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite

Added Mar 3, 2026

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Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite. Optimized for high-volume, cost-efficient reasoning and multimodal workloads.

  • Reasoning
  • Tools
  • Vision
  • Structured output
  • PDF input
  • Audio input
  • Video input
Input
Text, Images, Video, Audio
Output
Text
Reasoning effort
minimal · low · medium · high
Discovery tier
Efficient

Pricing

USD per 1M tokens
Input
$0.25
Output
$1.50
Cache read
$0.025
Cache write
$0.0833

Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example

Specifications

Context window
1M
Max output
65.5K
Average output (7 days)
669 tokens
Longer than 59% of 465 models

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Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteGoogleThis modelGemini Flash Lite LatestGoogleRemove
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Discovery tierEfficientEfficient
AddedMar 3, 2026Mar 29, 2026
Limits
Context window1.05M1.05M
Max output65.54K65.54K
Average output669 tokens—
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$0.25Best$0.30
Output$1.50Best$2.50
Cache read$0.025Best$0.03
Cache write$0.0833$0.0833
Performance
Request success (24h)100.0%Best99.8%
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index15.622.2Best
Coding Index34.749.3Best
Capabilities
ReasoningYesYes
ToolsYesYes
VisionYesYes
Structured outputYesYes
PDF inputYesYes
Audio inputYesYes
Video inputYesYes
Reasoning effortminimal, low, medium, highminimal, low, medium, high

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.

  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
  • Gemini Flash Lite Latest

Intelligence Index

  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite15.6
  • Gemini Flash Lite Latest22.2

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: Better than 39% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Indexes

  • Coding Index

    Composite of the coding evaluations

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 34.7
    • Gemini Flash Lite Latest: 49.3Top

Agentic work

  • AutomationBench-AA

    Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 6.8%
    • Gemini Flash Lite Latest: 25.0%Top

  • AutomationBench-AA tasks completed

    Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 0.5%
    • Gemini Flash Lite Latest: 3.3%Top

  • Harvey LAB-AAv1.1

    Legal tasks passed in full, with no material hallucination

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: —
    • Gemini Flash Lite Latest: 0.0%

  • AA-Briefcasev1.1

    Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 207 Elo
    • Gemini Flash Lite Latest: 650 EloTop

  • GDPval-AAv2.1

    Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 430 Elo
    • Gemini Flash Lite Latest: 985 EloTop

Document reasoning

  • GDP.pdf

    Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 7.8%
    • Gemini Flash Lite Latest: 13.6%Top

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 74.3%
    • Gemini Flash Lite Latest: 76.0%Top

  • MLCR-AA

    Long-context reasoning over medical records

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 5.0%
    • Gemini Flash Lite Latest: 10.6%Top

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 17.2%
    • Gemini Flash Lite Latest: 18.8%Top

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 82.2%
    • Gemini Flash Lite Latest: 83.8%Top

  • IFBench

    Following precise output instructions

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 77.2%
    • Gemini Flash Lite Latest: —

Coding

  • Terminal-Benchv4.0

    Practical software engineering in a terminal

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 0.5%
    • Gemini Flash Lite Latest: 1.0%Top

  • SciCode

    Scientific computing in Python

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 43.4%Top
    • Gemini Flash Lite Latest: 41.3%

Legacy evaluations

  • Terminal-Bench Hard

    Earlier terminal task suite

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 24.2%
    • Gemini Flash Lite Latest: —

  • τ²-Bench Telecom

    Tool use in a customer-support simulation

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 31.3%
    • Gemini Flash Lite Latest: —

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 74.3%
    • Gemini Flash Lite Latest: 76.0%Top

Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis

Live routing data

Performance and reliability

Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.

Prompt cache hits
41.0%
About $0.16 per 1M input tokens with caching
Request success (24h)
100.0%
Reliable

Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.

Hourly request success · last 72 hoursLowest hour 100.0%
  • Healthy (98% or more)
  • Degraded (90–98%)
  • Down (under 90%)
  • No requests

Developers

Use it through the API

Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.

Read the quickstart
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite",
    "reasoning_effort": "medium",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
  }'
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

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