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Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview benchmarks, ranks and price

Where Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL place Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview, what it costs through OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, and the models either side of it on the consensus.

Updated Oct 1, 2026Full leaderboardSources and method

Read Oct 1, 2026

#47of 85

on the LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 45 across 2 leaderboards.

Source: Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL, combined by Rank.ai.

By leaderboard

Where each leaderboard places Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview

Artificial Analysis

#36of 51

Score 15.6. Best run: google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview.

Intelligence Index: a composite of reasoning, knowledge, maths and coding evaluations.

LiveBench

Not measured by LiveBench.

Contamination-limited questions refreshed each release: reasoning, maths, coding, data analysis, language.

LMArena

#35of 79

Score 1432. Best run: gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview.

Blind head-to-head human votes, style controlled.

Berkeley BFCL

Not measured by Berkeley BFCL.

Function calling and tool use, single turn to multi turn and web search.

Price and context

$0.56

OpenRouter: $0.25 in, $1.50 out. Vercel AI Gateway: $0.25 in, $1.50 out Context window 1.0M tokens.

Nearby

The models either side of Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview

  1. #44o4-mini-2025-04-1648
  2. #45MiniMax M2.747
  3. #46GPT-5 Mini46
  4. #47Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview45
  5. #48GPT-5.4 Mini45
  6. #49Qwen3.6 Plus45
  7. #50gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-1444

Questions about Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview

How good is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview?
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview ranks #47 of 85 models on the Rank.ai LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 45 out of 100 across 2 leaderboards.
Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview better than GPT-5 Mini?
Not on the consensus: GPT-5 Mini scores 46 to Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview's 45. Compare them source by source below, since the leaderboards test different things.
Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview better than GPT-5.4 Mini?
On the consensus, yes: 45 to 45.
How much does Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview cost?
$0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens on OpenRouter, the cheaper listing we read. Blended at three input tokens to one output, that is $0.56 per million.
Is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview good for coding?
It scores 34.7 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Index, placing it #37 for coding among the models on this leaderboard.

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