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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

GoogleReleased 3 Mar 2026ClosedSmall / fastDate verified
141129–153Index score#85 of 229 models
3/ 8Core tests taken2 of 6 areas · plus 6 anchor tests
−29Versus the frontier at releasebest then: GPT-5.3-CodexReplaced by Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
$0.25/ $1.5Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
1.05MContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

o3 reached this score 11 months earlier.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeevidence
GPQA Diamond
82%
Humanity's Last Exam
9%
Mathsevidence
FrontierMath T1-3
28%
Codingevidence
SWE-bench Verified
no result
Terminal-Bench
no result
Agentsevidence
APEX-Agents
no result
Novel problemsno evidence yet
ARC-AGI-2
no result
Long tasksno evidence yet
METR time horizon
no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

What others sayrank on each leaderboard

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

Best attop three among current models

Replaced by Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite; it no longer leads any category among current models.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

Where to use itprices checked 1 Oct 2026

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Facts and sources

Released3 Mar 2026
Announcementblog.google ↗
Release entryGemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Scored asGemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Artificial Analysis index–
Output speed–
Hugging Faceclosed weights

Google releasesaround this one