Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is Google's budget current-gen tier — rock-bottom pricing for high-volume, multimodal, latency-sensitive jobs.

Best for

• Most cost-efficient Gemini 3-gen tier for simple tasks at scale
• Classification, extraction, summarisation, routing
• High-QPS production pipelines with cheap long inputs

How it compares — and the India angle

• At ~$0.25 / 1M input it keeps costs near the floor for Indian high-volume API workloads while staying current-gen.
• Trades peak reasoning for price — step up to 3.5 Flash when coding/agentic quality matters.
• Match the tier to task difficulty: Flash-Lite for easy, Flash for hard.