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Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite

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Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is Google’s GA high-efficiency multimodal model optimized for low-latency, high-volume workloads. It supports text, image, video, audio, and PDF inputs, and is designed for lightweight agentic workflows, simple data extraction, and applications where responsiveness and API cost are the primary constraints.

Supports full thinking levels (minimal, low, medium, high) for fine-grained cost/performance trade-offs. Priced at half the cost of Gemini 3 Flash.

Modalities
In / Out Price
$0.25 / $1.50per 1M
Context
1.0M
Released
May 7, 2026
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ProvidersPricingPerformanceUptimeAppsActivityFAQExplore

Providers

Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick — Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

API

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

Available through EU in-region routing

Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is available through EU in-region routing. Requests sent to eu.openrouter.ai are decrypted in the EU and routed only to shared provider endpoints in Europe (the EU/EEA, the UK, and Switzerland).

Providers in Europe
Google Vertex
Prices in Europe
  • Google Vertex: $0.275/M tokens input, $1.65/M tokens output
Base URL
https://eu.openrouter.ai/api/v1
Plan
Requires Business or Enterprise. Self-serve on Business: no contract, no monthly minimum. OpenRouter Business for EU in-region routing

Fails closed: if no shared provider endpoint in Europe is available, the request errors instead of leaving the region. Requests served by your own BYOK key go to your deployment’s region, which you control. In-region routing docs

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$0.125$0.75$0.0125$0.0250.69s156 tps
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$0.275$1.65$0.0275$0.0550.76s136 tps
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Flex
$0.125$0.75$0.0125$0.02517.68s35 tps
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Throughput
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P50, best across providers

Latency
0.55s

P50, best provider

AutoExacto benchmarks
GPQA DiamondTAU-BenchGoogle Vertex (EU)83.2%74.7%Google Vertex83.3%73.3%auto-routing84.5%71.3%Google Vertex (US)82.3%70.0%Google AI Studio82.7%68.7%
Uptime (3d)The model was reachable. Request routed to a provider.
100.00%
Availability (3d)The model returned inference from any provider. Errors and empty responses count against it.
99.94%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours
Availability 99.94%
3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability
99.94%
Without Routing
99.17%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.

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Frequently asked questions

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is Google’s GA high-efficiency multimodal model optimized for low-latency, high-volume workloads. It supports text, image, video, audio, and PDF inputs, and is designed for lightweight agentic workflows, simple data extraction, and applications where responsiveness and API cost are the primary constraints.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite costs $0.25/M input tokens and $1.50/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.025/M tokens, Cache Write at $0.08333/M tokens, Image Input at $0.25/M tokens, Input Audio at $0.50/M tokens, Input Audio Cache at $0.05/M tokens, and Web Search at $14.00/1K calls.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has a 1,048,576 token context window. It supports up to 65,536 completion tokens.

Yes. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite accepts text, images, video, files such as PDFs, and audio as input and returns text.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is served by 2 providers on OpenRouter: Google Vertex and Google AI Studio. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite was released on May 7, 2026.