Using Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite on Google AI Studio

Quick Start

1. 1
   Create an account at Google AI Studio and generate an API key.
2. 2
   Use the Google AI Studio SDK or REST API to call gemini-3.1-flash-lite — see the documentation for request format.
3. 3
   You'll be billed $0.25/1M input, $1.50/1M output tokens.

Code Examples

import os
from google import genai

client = genai.Client(api_key=os.environ["GOOGLE_API_KEY"])
response = client.models.generate_content(
    model="gemini-3.1-flash-lite",
    contents="Hello"
)
print(response.text)

About Google AI Studio

Google AI Studio is a model prototyping environment and API access point for Gemini models, offering an inference playground for developers to test and build AI applications.

Pricing on Google AI Studio

Capabilities

About Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is Google's generally available low-latency Gemini 3.1 model, launched May 7, 2026. It is optimized for high-volume, cost-sensitive workloads with text, image, and video inputs, a 1M token context window, and a 66K token maximum output. The GA model uses the stable API ID gemini-3.1-flash-lite and replaces gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview, which is scheduled to shut down on May 25, 2026. Pricing is $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $1.50 per 1M output tokens.