gemini-3.1-flash-lite API pricing
Google Gemini charges $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.5 per million output tokens for gemini-3.1-flash-lite, and $0.025 per million cached input tokens. A typical request of 1,000 input and 500 output tokens costs $0.001, or $0.0005 through the batch API.
Prices updated October 28, 2026
Input / 1M tokens
$0.25
Output / 1M tokens
$1.5
Cached input / 1M tokens
$0.025
Typical request
$0.001
gemini-3.1-flash-lite price per million tokens
| Token type | Standard | Batch API |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.25 | $0.125 |
| Cached input | $0.025 | $0.0125 |
| Output | $1.5 | $0.75 |
gemini-3.1-flash-lite supports a 1.05M-token context window, up to 65.5K output tokens, image input, tool calling and reasoning.
What gemini-3.1-flash-lite costs per request
| Request | 1 request | 1,000 requests | 1M requests |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message (300 in, 200 out) | $0.000375 | $0.38 | $375.00 |
| Typical request (1K in, 500 out) | $0.001 | $1.00 | $1,000.00 |
| Long document summary (20K in, 1K out) | $0.0065 | $6.50 | $6,500.00 |
| Coding agent step (50K in, 2K out) | $0.0155 | $15.50 | $15,500.00 |
At standard rates. A token is about 4 characters of English text, so 1,000 tokens is roughly 750 words. Google Gemini counts tokens with its own tokenizer, so the same text can be a different number of tokens.
Models with a similar price
| Model | Provider | Input / 1M | Cached input / 1M | Output / 1M | Typical request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gpt-5.6-luna | OpenAI | $0.2 | $0.02 | $1.2 | $0.0008 |
| deepseek-v3 | DeepSeek | $0.27 | $0.07 | $1.1 | $0.00082 |
| gpt-5.4-nano | OpenAI | $0.2 | $0.02 | $1.25 | $0.000825 |
| deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017 | Mistral | $0.3 | $0.007 | $1.2 | $0.0009 |
| deepseek-flash | DeepSeek | $0.3 | $0.006 | $1.2 | $0.0009 |
| deepseek-v4-flash | DeepSeek | $0.3 | $0.006 | $1.2 | $0.0009 |
| gpt-4.1-mini | OpenAI | $0.4 | $0.1 | $1.6 | $0.0012 |
| gpt-5-mini | OpenAI | $0.25 | $0.025 | $2 | $0.00125 |
Other Google Gemini models
- gemini-2.5-flash $0.3 / $2.5
- gemini-2.5-flash-lite $0.1 / $0.4
- gemini-2.5-pro $1.25 / $10
- gemini-3-flash-preview $0.5 / $3
- gemini-3.1-pro-preview $2 / $12
- gemini-3.5-flash $1.5 / $9
- gemini-3.5-flash-lite $0.3 / $2.5
- gemini-3.6-flash $0.75 / $3.75
- gemini-3.7-flash $0.75 / $3.75
- gemini-3.8-flash $0.75 / $3.75
- gemini-4-argon $2 / $10
- gemini-omni-1.1-flash $1.5 / $9
Source: Google Gemini pricing.