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Google DeepMind said on March 3, 2026 that Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite delivers faster performance at a lower price than Gemini 2.5 Flash. Google is rolling the model out in preview via Google AI Studio and Vertex AI for high-volume, latency-sensitive workloads.

Google introduced Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite on March 3, 2026 as its fastest and most cost-efficient model in the Gemini 3 family. The model ships in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI with a 1 million-token context window and API-level reasoning budget controls.