--- title: Google Announces Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview with... description: Google has released Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview, the fastest model in the Gemini 3 family. Priced at $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/google-announces-gemini-3-1-flash-lite-preview-with-enhanced-output-z8znwlldc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Google Announces Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview with Enhanced Output | daily.dev og:description: Google has released Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview, the fastest model in the Gemini 3 family. Priced at $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/google-announces-gemini-3-1-flash-lite-preview-with-enhanced-output-z8znwlldc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/z8znwLLdC.png og:image:alt: Google Announces Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview with Enhanced Output og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Google Announces Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview with Enhanced Output **[Collections](https://daily.dev/sources/collections)** · 2 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Google has released Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview, the fastest model in the Gemini 3 family. Priced at $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens, it delivers up to 363 tokens per second and a 45% speed increase over its predecessor. Available via the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Vertex AI, it outperforms Gemini 2.5 Flash and beats GPT-5 mini and Claude 4.5 Haiku on price-performance benchmarks. The model supports adjustable reasoning time for cost-quality tuning and is aimed at developers handling high-volume data processing workloads rather than agentic or conversational tasks. ## Content Google has launched Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview, the fastest model in the Gemini 3 family and a meaningful step up from the previous Lite generation. ## What it is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is priced at $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens. It's available now via the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Vertex AI. Google says it reaches up to 363 tokens per second and delivers a 45% increase in output speed over its predecessor. On benchmarks, it outperforms Gemini 2.5 Flash and beats GPT-5 mini and Claude 4.5 Haiku on price-performance. One notable omission: Google didn't publish any agent benchmarks, which makes sense given the model is aimed at data processing and high-volume workloads rather than agentic tasks. The API also supports adjustable reasoning time, so you can tune cost versus quality depending on what the task actually needs. ## Who it's for This isn't really a model for people chatting with AI. It's for developers building tools that need to process a lot of data quickly without running up a large bill. A good example: a YouTube thumbnail swipe file app that uses the model to instantly describe images dropped into it. That kind of lightweight, high-frequency use case is exactly where Flash Lite shines. The speed and low cost make it practical for small integrations that would be too expensive or too slow with a heavier model. If you're building something that needs to handle volume at scale, it's worth testing in AI Studio. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale](https://daily.dev/posts/gemini-3-1-flash-lite-built-for-intelligence-at-scale-oz1mpgrn8) · DeepMind · 1 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#google](https://daily.dev/tags/google), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#google-gemini](https://daily.dev/tags/google-gemini), [#vertex-ai](https://daily.dev/tags/vertex-ai), [#ai-inference](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-inference) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/google-announces-gemini-3-1-flash-lite-preview-with-enhanced-output-z8znwlldc) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Google Announces Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview with Enhanced Output","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/google-announces-gemini-3-1-flash-lite-preview-with-enhanced-output-z8znwlldc","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/google-announces-gemini-3-1-flash-lite-preview-with-enhanced-output-z8znwlldc"},"datePublished":"2026-03-03T17:16:42.861Z","dateModified":"2026-03-08T13:55:02.119Z","description":"Google has released Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview, the fastest model in the Gemini 3 family. 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