Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is Google's high-efficiency model optimized for high-volume use cases. It outperforms Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite on overall quality and approaches Gemini 2.5 Flash performance across key capabilities. Improvements s…
Model details →Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview vs Meta: Llama 4 Maverick
Meta: Llama 4 Maverick wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct (128E) is a high-capacity multimodal language model from Meta, built on a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 128 experts and 17 billion active parameters per forward pass (400B total). It supports multi…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview | Meta: Llama 4 Maverick | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 1.0M | 1.0M | Tie |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.25 | $0.15 | 🏆 Meta: Llama 4 Maverick |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $1.50 | $0.60 | 🏆 Meta: Llama 4 Maverick |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | — | 🏆 Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview |
Frequently asked questions
Is Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview better than Meta: Llama 4 Maverick?
Meta: Llama 4 Maverick wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview and Meta: Llama 4 Maverick?
Input: $0.25 vs $0.15 per 1M tokens. Output: $1.50 vs $0.60 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview and Meta: Llama 4 Maverick support?
Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview supports up to 1.0M tokens. Meta: Llama 4 Maverick supports up to 1.0M tokens.
Do both Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview and Meta: Llama 4 Maverick support tool calling?
Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview: yes. Meta: Llama 4 Maverick: yes.