Google Released March 3, 2026 Synced Mar 10, 2026

Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is Google's high-efficiency model optimized for high-volume use cases. It outperforms Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite on overall quality and approaches Gemini 2.5 Flash performance across key capabilities. Improvements span audio input/ASR, RAG snippet ranking, translation, data extraction, and code completion. Supports full thinking levels (minimal, low, medium, high) for fine-grained cost/performance trade-offs. Priced at half the cost of Gemini 3 Flash.

Tool useVisionAudioReasoning

Why it stands out

Offers a 1049K-token context window, enabling full-document and multi-file analysis without chunking.

Combines tool use with reasoning — a strong baseline for agentic and multi-step workflows.

Multimodal input (vision and audio) extends it beyond text-only workflows.

$0.25/M input makes it practical for always-on agents, batch processing, or high-volume classification.

What to watch

No benchmark score currently tracked — evaluate using task-specific testing alongside pricing and capability data.

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