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Benchmark suiteUpdated May 19, 2026

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview.

A model-level benchmark profile for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview, combining Arena category ranks, suite indexes, commercial price and speed data, SWE-bench status, and lab context.

Google lab page

Lab

Google

Proprietary

Coverage

67%

6 of 9 tracked signals

Best Arena rank

#33

Vision Arena

Best suite

#37

Value / 62

OverviewFull public trackerValuePerformance for the moneyCodingCode and SWE-bench signalsAgentsTool and workflow readinessReasoningKnowledge and reasoning signalsContextDocument and retrieval signalsLabsProvider comparisons

Model profile

Benchmark signal map.

This view treats missing values as coverage gaps, then puts every available score, rank, cost, and speed signal into the same visual hierarchy.

Analyst view

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is strongest on value.

67% coverage

Its best composite result is rank #37 in the value view, with a 62 value index. The strongest raw Arena signal is Vision Arena at rank #33 with 14,016 public votes.

Best current lane

Value

#37 / 62 value index

Strongest raw signal

Vision

#33, 1238 score

Commercial posture

$0.563

5.27s first token / 272 tok/s

Coverage gaps

Search ArenaDocument ArenaSWE-bench

Profile completeness

6 of 9 signals matched

67%

Arena categories

3/5

Vision, Text, Code

Commercial match

Live

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview

SWE-bench

Not listed

No confident software benchmark row

Raw identifier

gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview

Performance cockpit

Public benchmark scores

Arena rows show score, public rank, confidence interval, vote count, and publish date. Missing rows stay visible as coverage gaps.

Text Arena

Arena category

1,436#59

1432-1440 CI

27,771 votes

May 19, 2026

Arena public leaderboard dataset

WebDev Arena

Arena category

1,245#68

1236-1253 CI

8,671 votes

May 19, 2026

Arena public leaderboard dataset

Vision Arena

Arena category

1,238#33

1230-1245 CI

14,016 votes

May 18, 2026

Arena public leaderboard dataset

Search Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

Document Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

SWE-bench Verified

Software issue resolution

Not listed

No confident SWE-bench row matched to this model.

Coverage gap

Cost and speed

Commercial profile

Price, latency, and throughput are only shown when a confident commercial source row is matched.

Blended price

$0.563

USD / 1M tokens

Input price

$0.250

USD / 1M input tokens

Output price

$1.50

USD / 1M output tokens

Latency

5.27s

Median time to first token

Output speed

272 tok/s

Median generation speed

Matched source row

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview

Suite position

Composite ranks by benchmark lens.

These views combine available public signals into purpose-specific indexes. A missing card means the model lacks enough source coverage for that lens.

Value

Quality, price, latency, and output speed

#3762

value index

blended / 1M tokens$0.563
time to first token5.27s
output speed272 tok/s

Coding

Code Arena, SWE-bench, and output speed

#6733

coding index

Code Arena rank #681,245
No confident matchNot listed
output speed272 tok/s

Agents

Search, documents, code, and latency

#9659

agent proxy

Search ArenaNot listed
Docs ArenaNot listed
latency5.27s

Reasoning

Text, documents, vision, and mode signal

#6543

reasoning proxy

Text Arena rank #591,436
Docs ArenaNot listed
Vision Arena rank #331,238

Long context

Document, search, and text benchmark proxy

#7728

context proxy

Docs ArenaNot listed
Search ArenaNot listed
Text Arena rank #591,436

Lab context

Nearby Google profiles.

Same-lab models make it easier to see whether this profile is a flagship, value play, specialist, or lower-coverage row.

Full lab

Gemini 3.1 Pro Grounding

gemini-3.1-pro-grounding

Proprietary

Best rank

#4

Coverage

11%

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

gemini-3.1-pro-preview

Proprietary

Best rank

#6

Coverage

78%

Gemini 3 Pro

gemini-3-pro

Proprietary

Best rank

#6

Coverage

67%

Gemini 3 Pro Grounding

gemini-3-pro-grounding

Proprietary

Best rank

#7

Coverage

11%

Gemini 3.5 Flash

gemini-3.5-flash

Proprietary

Best rank

#9

Coverage

56%

Gemini 3 Flash Grounding

gemini-3-flash-grounding

Proprietary

Best rank

#10

Coverage

11%

Gemma 4 31b

gemma-4-31b

Open weights

Best rank

#16

Coverage

67%

Gemini 3 Flash

gemini-3-flash (thinking-minimal)

Proprietary

Best rank

#17

Coverage

89%