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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 modelQwen3 MaxQwenRemove
ProviderGoogleQwen
Discovery tierEfficientBalanced
AddedMar 3, 2026Sep 5, 2025
Limits
Context window1.05MBest256K
Max output65.54KBest32.77K
Average output669 tokens—
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$0.25Best$1.20
Output$1.50Best$6.00
Cache read$0.025—
Cache write$0.0833—
Performance
Request success (24h)100.0%—
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index15.615.6
Coding Index34.7—
Math Index—80.7
Capabilities
ReasoningYesNo
ToolsYesNo
VisionYesNo
Structured outputYesNo
PDF inputYesNo
Audio inputYesNo
Video inputYesNo
Reasoning effortminimal, 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
  • Qwen3 Max

Intelligence Index

  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite15.6
  • Qwen3 Max15.6

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
    • Qwen3 Max: —

  • Math Index

    Composite of the math evaluations

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: —
    • Qwen3 Max: 80.7

Agentic work

  • AutomationBench-AA

    Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 6.8%
    • Qwen3 Max: —

  • AutomationBench-AA tasks completed

    Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 0.5%
    • Qwen3 Max: —

  • AA-Briefcasev1.1

    Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 207 Elo
    • Qwen3 Max: —

  • GDPval-AAv2.1

    Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 430 Elo
    • Qwen3 Max: —

Document reasoning

  • GDP.pdf

    Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 7.8%
    • Qwen3 Max: —

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 74.3%Top
    • Qwen3 Max: 50.0%

  • MLCR-AA

    Long-context reasoning over medical records

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 5.0%
    • Qwen3 Max: —

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 17.2%Top
    • Qwen3 Max: 11.9%

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 82.2%Top
    • Qwen3 Max: 76.4%

  • MMLU-Pro

    Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: —
    • Qwen3 Max: 84.1%

  • IFBench

    Following precise output instructions

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 77.2%Top
    • Qwen3 Max: 44.1%

Coding

  • Terminal-Benchv4.0

    Practical software engineering in a terminal

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 0.5%
    • Qwen3 Max: —

  • SciCode

    Scientific computing in Python

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 43.4%
    • Qwen3 Max: —

  • LiveCodeBench

    Recent competitive programming problems

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: —
    • Qwen3 Max: 76.7%

Math

  • AIME 2025

    Competition mathematics, 2025 problems

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: —
    • Qwen3 Max: 80.7%

Legacy evaluations

  • Terminal-Bench Hard

    Earlier terminal task suite

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 24.2%Top
    • Qwen3 Max: 20.5%

  • τ²-Bench Telecom

    Tool use in a customer-support simulation

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 31.3%
    • Qwen3 Max: 74.3%Top

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 74.3%Top
    • Qwen3 Max: 50.0%

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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