Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-flash-lite/)

Google’s latest model is an update to their inexpensive Flash-Lite family. At $0.25/million tokens of input and $1.5/million output this is 1/8th the price of Gemini 3.1 Pro.

It supports four different thinking levels, so I had it output four different pelicans (https://gist.github.com/simonw/99fb28dc11d0c24137d4ff8a33978a9e):

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  medium



  
    
  
  high



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