The cost-efficient model is meant for high-volume data processing and translation workloads, not agentic orchestration.

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Google has launched Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, the fastest model in the Gemini 3 family, priced at $0.25/$1.50 per million input/output tokens. Available in preview via the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Vertex AI, it targets high-volume developer workloads at scale. It outperforms Gemini 2.5 Flash on most benchmarks and beats direct competitors like GPT-5 mini and Claude 4.5 Haiku on price-performance, reaching up to 363 tokens per second. The model supports adjustable reasoning time via the API, making it cost-flexible for high-volume tasks. Notably, no agent benchmarks were published, as the model is designed for data processing rather than agentic orchestration.

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, its fastest Gemini 3 model yet