Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is the lower-cost Gemini 3.1 tier for high-frequency, lightweight workloads. Its public preview began in March, followed by general availability in May. It accepts text, image, audio, and video inputs and supports thinking, function calling, and structured responses. It is intended for repeated extraction, summarization, translation, and classification jobs with precise instructions.
2026-03-03
Unreleased
Undisclosed proprietary architecture
Proprietary
Specifications
- Parameters
- Unreleased
- Architecture
- Undisclosed proprietary architecture
- License
- Proprietary
- Context Window
- 1,048,576 tokens
- Max Output
- 65,536 tokens
- Type
- multimodal
- Modalities
- textimageaudiovideo
Benchmark Scores
Advanced Specifications
- Model Family
- Gemini
- API Access
- Available
- Chat Interface
- Not Available
- Variants
- gemini-3.1-flash-litegemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
Capabilities & Limitations
- Capabilities
- reasoningmultimodal understandingfunction callingstructured outputssearch grounding
- Known Limitations
- Generated answers and tool arguments can be incorrect and need verification.Long context and higher thinking levels can increase token cost and latency.
- Notable Use Cases
- high-volume extractiontranslationclassification
- Function Calling Support
- Yes
- Tool Use Support
- Yes