Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

Fast, low-cost Gemini 3.1 model for high-throughput multimodal workloads, with configurable reasoning and a 1M-token context window.

Try Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite in the Workbench

Run this model interactively, tune parameters, and compare outputs.

Model ID: gemini-3-1-flash-lite-preview

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview is Google’s fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3.1 model for high-volume workloads. It is optimized for low-latency, large-scale tasks where responsiveness and cost control are critical.

Some other noteworthy features of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview include configurable thinking levels, strong instruction-following for production pipelines, and multimodal support suitable for translation, moderation, UI generation, dashboards, and simulation-style workflows.

Metric	Value
Parameter Count	Unknown
Mixture of Experts	Unknown
Context Length	1,048,576 tokens
Multilingual	Yes
Quantized*	Unknown

*Quantization is specific to the inference provider and the model may be offered with different quantization levels by other providers.

Example request

Use the Workbench as a request builder: configure parameters for this model in the UI, then open the API tab to copy the exact cURL or Python call.

Minimal

cURL

curl -X POST https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "gemini-3-1-flash-lite-preview",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Hello, what can you do?"
    }
  ]
}'

import os
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/chat/completions",
    headers={
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OXEN_API_KEY']}",
    },
    json={
        "model": "gemini-3-1-flash-lite-preview",
        "messages": [
            {
                "role": "user",
                "content": "Hello, what can you do?"
            }
        ]
    },
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json())

Basic parameters

cURL

curl -X POST https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "gemini-3-1-flash-lite-preview",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Hello, what can you do?"
    }
  ],
  "temperature": 0.7,
  "max_tokens": 1024,
  "stream": false
}'

import os
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/chat/completions",
    headers={
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OXEN_API_KEY']}",
    },
    json={
        "model": "gemini-3-1-flash-lite-preview",
        "messages": [
            {
                "role": "user",
                "content": "Hello, what can you do?"
            }
        ],
        "temperature": 0.7,
        "max_tokens": 1024,
        "stream": false
    },
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json())

All parameters

cURL

curl -X POST https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "gemini-3-1-flash-lite-preview",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Hello, what can you do?"
    }
  ],
  "temperature": 0.7,
  "max_tokens": 1024,
  "stream": false,
  "top_p": 1.0
}'

import os
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/chat/completions",
    headers={
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OXEN_API_KEY']}",
    },
    json={
        "model": "gemini-3-1-flash-lite-preview",
        "messages": [
            {
                "role": "user",
                "content": "Hello, what can you do?"
            }
        ],
        "temperature": 0.7,
        "max_tokens": 1024,
        "stream": false,
        "top_p": 1.0
    },
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json())

Fetch model details

The models endpoint returns the full model object, including its json_request_schema.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/models/gemini-3-1-flash-lite-preview

Request parameters

This model follows the standard OpenAI chat completions request body. See the chat completions reference for the full parameter list.