Google · Gemini
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Google’s lower-latency, lower-cost model for high-volume extraction and lightweight multimodal jobs.
This is where automation economics can work, after a sampled test proves the cheap model fails safely enough.
Use it for
- Classification and simple extraction
- High-volume repetitive requests
- Work where latency and cost dominate
Do not use the cheapest tier for nuanced judgement, difficult synthesis or edge cases that are expensive to miss.
Effort without the jargon
The task is narrow, repeatable and backed by sampling and failure checks.
Advanced recordCost, limits, privacy and operations
This is designed for cheap volume, but audio, cached storage and grounded search have separate rates; validate the full request mix before forecasting savings.
- API cost
- Officially disclosedPaid standard API rate: US$0.25 per million text/image/video input tokens, US$0.50 for audio input and US$1.50 output including thinking; other modes and storage differ.
- Context window
- Officially disclosed1,048,576 input tokens
- Maximum output
- Officially disclosed65,536 output tokens
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not disclosedNot stated on the model card
- Recorded inputs
- Text · Images · Video · Audio · PDF
- Recorded output
- Text
Data handling is a product decision
Depends on surfaceThe Gemini pricing table distinguishes free and paid data-use conditions. Confirm the tier, service terms and logging settings before sensitive workloads.
Operational constraints
- Live API, image generation and computer use are not supported on the model record.
- Grounding queries and cache storage are priced separately from generation.
- High-volume use still needs rate-limit handling, sampling and failure monitoring.
Unknown means the cited official record does not disclose a safe value. It is not an estimate. Prices are provider list prices in USD where stated and can change before this record's review date.
Keep the evidence separate
Google positions Flash-Lite for high-frequency lightweight tasks where latency and API cost are the main constraints.
No sufficiently useful independent note has been added yet. That absence is not filled with our guess.
No Human Bit result is claimed; use this as evaluation guidance only.
Not scheduled
No Human Bit result is claimed for this model yet.