Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview

google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview-20260303

This model processes text, image, video, file, and audio inputs to generate text outputs. It has a context length of 1,048,576 tokens and supports tools and reasoning. Input is priced at $0.25 per million tokens, while output costs $1.5 per million tokens.

  • tool use
  • structured outputs
  • reasoning

At a glance

providergoogle
releasedMar 20, 2025
context1.0M
input / M$0.25

Specifications

What the API gives you

Context window
1.0M tokens
Max output
66K tokens
Input price
$0.25 / 1M tokens
Output price
$1.50 / 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.025 / 1M tokens
Modalities
text, image, video, file, audio → text
Knowledge cutoff
—
Released
Mar 20, 2025

Measured evidence

Public benchmark record

Design Arena Coding
1072 Elo2026-10-21
Design Arena UI
1071 Elo2026-10-21
Design Arena Website
1084 Elo2026-10-21
FACTS Grounding
66.5%2026-10-21
LMArena Creative Writing
1401 Elo2026-10-20
LMArena Instruction Following
1377 Elo2026-10-20
LMArena Long Query
1394 Elo2026-10-20
LMArena Math
1428 Elo2026-10-20
LMArena Text
1433 Elo2026-10-20
LMArena Text Factuality
1433 Elo2026-10-20
LMArena Vision
1235 Elo2026-10-19
LMArena Vision Diagrams
1252 Elo2026-10-19
LMArena Vision OCR
1247 Elo2026-10-19
LMArena WebDev
1257 Elo2026-10-19
LMArena WebDev Image-to-Web
1336 Elo2026-10-19

LMArena data licensed CC-BY-4.0. Aider (Apache-2.0) and SWE-bench (MIT) are open. Design Arena uses blind human preference.

Task evidence

How broad is the support?

Each status is exact to this model version and the selected task. Official release claims remain provisional.

  • Best LLM for Frontend & UIEstablished evidence

    91% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Grounded RAGEstablished evidence

    48% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Document SummarizationEstablished evidence

    45% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for SummarizationEstablished evidence

    45% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for RAG & Long ContextEstablished evidence

    44% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for CodingEstablished evidence

    36% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

Show all 35 tasks
  • Best LLM for Business WritingProvisional evidence

    67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Marketing CopyProvisional evidence

    67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Chat & RoleplayProvisional evidence

    67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Roleplay & CharacterProvisional evidence

    67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Creative WritingProvisional evidence

    56% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for WritingProvisional evidence

    56% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Image UnderstandingProvisional evidence

    50% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Reasoning or VLMEvalKit tasks. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for a General AssistantProvisional evidence

    50% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI) or LiveBench Instruction Following. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for OCR & DocumentsProvisional evidence

    45% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or Structured-output eval. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Charts & DiagramsProvisional evidence

    45% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or Structured-output eval. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Vision & DocumentsProvisional evidence

    40% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or Structured-output eval. 4 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Document ParsingProvisional evidence

    37% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or Structured-output eval. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Logic & Problem SolvingProvisional evidence

    36% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI) or LiveBench Instruction Following. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Code CompletionProvisional evidence

    36% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Aider Polyglot or LiveBench Coding. 3 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Math & ReasoningProvisional evidence

    28% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI) or GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI). 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Open-Weight LLM for Self-HostingProvisional evidence

    27% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Competition MathProvisional evidence

    26% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI) or OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI). 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Value LLMProvisional evidence

    25% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Local LLM for CodingProvisional evidence

    21% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Aider Polyglot or LiveBench Coding. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Massive ContextProvisional evidence

    20% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or LongBench v2. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Debugging & Code ReviewProvisional evidence

    17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Aider Polyglot or LiveBench Coding. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Fast SummariesProvisional evidence

    17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Literary TranslationProvisional evidence

    17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Everyday TranslationProvisional evidence

    17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for TranslationProvisional evidence

    17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for JSON & Schema OutputProvisional evidence

    12% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LiveBench Data Analysis. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Structured Data ExtractionProvisional evidence

    12% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LiveBench Data Analysis. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Cheap LLM for High VolumeProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Cheapest Capable LLMProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

Recommendation coverage

Where this model appears

Not currently included in a published recommendation. The task evidence panel above says exactly what is confirmed and what is still missing.

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