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- Released
- 3 Mar 2026
- Status
- Legacy
- Context
- 1M
- Max output
- 65.5K
- Input per 1M tokens
- $0.25
- Output per 1M tokens
- $1.50
- Open weights
- No
- License
- proprietary
- Parameters
- —
- Knowledge cutoff
- Jan 2025
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Modalities
- text, image, video, audio, pdf → text
Category scores
Out of 100, from independent and third-party results only, by method category-2026-09-29.1.
| Category | Score | Rank | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knowledge & reasoning | 31.1 | 55 | 2 of 4 |
| Agentic tool use | 37.3 | Not ranked | 1 of 2 |
| Human preference | 37.6 | 44 | 3 of 5 |
Benchmark results
Every result we hold for this model, with who ran it and where it was published.
Knowledge & reasoning
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | Puzzles solved | 25.0% | Independent | low | 6 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
| Chess Puzzles | Puzzles solved | 24.0% | Independent | minimal | 6 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
| Chess Puzzles | Puzzles solved | 20.0% | Independent | high | 6 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
| DTBench (Decision Theory Benchmark) | Accuracy (capability questions) | 76.8% | Third party | high | — | https://conceptualreasoning.ai/dtbench via Epoch AI |
| LMCA (Language Model Conceptual Argumentation) | Correlation with expert ratings (Pearson r) | 0.3501 | Third party | high | — | https://conceptualreasoning.ai/lmca via Epoch AI |
Scientific reasoning
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Accuracy | 81.8% | Independent | high | 6 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
| GPQA Diamond | Accuracy | 74.2% | Independent | low | 6 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
| GPQA Diamond | Accuracy | 73.7% | Independent | minimal | 6 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
Mathematics
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 | Accuracy | 27.7% | Independent | high | 30 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 | Accuracy | 22.5% | Independent | low | 30 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 | Accuracy | 21.4% | Independent | minimal | 28 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | Accuracy | 80.0% | Independent | high | 6 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | Accuracy | 44.4% | Independent | low | 6 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | Accuracy | 37.8% | Independent | minimal | 6 Aug 2026 | Epoch AI |
Coding & software engineering
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WeirdML (v2) | Average accuracy | 52.2% | Third party | — | — | WeirdML Leaderboard via Epoch AI |
Agentic tool use
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deep Research Bench (FutureSearch) | Average score | 37.3% | Third party | low | — | https://evals.futuresearch.ai/#drb via Epoch AI |
| Deep Research Bench (FutureSearch) | Average score | 36.4% | Third party | — | — | https://evals.futuresearch.ai/#drb via Epoch AI |
Human preference
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code Arena: WebDev (arena.ai) | Arena score (Elo scale) | 1256 | Independent | — | 25 Sep 2026 | Arena |
| Code Arena: WebDev (arena.ai) | Votes | 14412 | Independent | — | 25 Sep 2026 | Arena |
| Text Arena (arena.ai) | Arena score (Elo scale) | 1433 | Independent | — | 25 Sep 2026 | Arena |
| Text Arena (arena.ai) | Votes | 63931 | Independent | — | 25 Sep 2026 | Arena |
| Vision Arena (arena.ai) | Arena score (Elo scale) | 1235 | Independent | — | 28 Sep 2026 | Arena |
| Vision Arena (arena.ai) | Votes | 27719 | Independent | — | 28 Sep 2026 | Arena |
Other Gemini Flash-Lite versions
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite21 Jul 2026
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite17 Jun 2025
- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite5 Feb 2025
Sources
- https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.1-flash-lite
- https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/gemini-3
- https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing
- https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations
- https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog
- https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/learn/model-versions
- https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-1-flash-lite/