Model guide / Google

Gemini 3.1 Pro

current

Gemini 3.1 Pro is Google's preview reasoning model for difficult multimodal, coding, and agentic work. Its one-million-token context and broad input support make it especially flexible for mixed media and large corpora, though newer Gemini 3.5 Flash can be faster and stronger on several agent benchmarks.

Released Feb 19, 2026ProprietaryClosed weightsVerified Jul 20, 2026

Context window

1.05M tokens

Maximum output

66K tokens

Input price

$2 / 1M

Output price

$12 / 1M

Best for

  • Complex multimodal analysis across text, images, audio, video, and PDFs
  • Advanced reasoning and planning
  • Large-context document and code analysis
  • Structured outputs and tool-rich Gemini API workflows

Not ideal for

  • Workloads that require a stable non-preview model identifier
  • Tasks where Gemini 3.5 Flash's speed is more valuable
  • Native image or audio generation
  • Prompts relying on post-January-2025 knowledge without search
PromptHQ evaluation

PromptHQ 100-word challenge

We give every model the same miniature science-fiction mystery. The response is short enough to read in one chat bubble, while the premise tests creative writing, compression, foreshadowing, causal coherence, and instruction following.

Gemini 3.1 Pro50 words

Write a science-fiction mystery in exactly 100 words.

A three-person research station on Europa receives a message from itself, timestamped 11 minutes in the future:

"Do not open the greenhouse door."

The door is opened anyway.

Plant two subtle clues. Give the warning a logical explanation without aliens, time travel, hallucinations, or simulations. The final sentence must change what the reader thought the warning meant.

Output only the story. Do not explain it.

The console chimed. Maya frowned at the text from their own station ID: Do not open the greenhouse door.

"Timestamp is 11:42," Ren said, fully zipping his heavy vacuum suit.

"It's only 11:31. Network bounce from the orbital relay?"

"Just a server sync error," Maya dismissed, checking a flashing pressure

Run the same prompt yourself

Open Gemini 3.1 Pro in Multichat with the evaluation prompt prefilled.

Try this prompt

What the response revealed

Exact word countfail

The response stops after 50 words rather than reaching exactly 100.

Constraint followingfail

Although it avoids the prohibited explanations, the response is visibly truncated and does not deliver a complete story.

Causal coherencefail

The response ends mid-sentence before explaining the warning, timestamp, or opened door.

Foreshadowingmixed

The fast timestamp, vacuum suit, and relay suggestion could function as clues, but the missing resolution prevents confirmation.

Endingfail

There is no final sentence or reversal because the output is incomplete.

Writingmixed

The opening is economical and intriguing, but the generation terminates before it becomes a story.

The model receives the prompt without web access or external tools. Gemini 3.1 Pro is run through OpenRouter at medium reasoning effort. We preserve the response as generated apart from display rendering.

Performance

Gemini 3.1 Pro benchmarks

Benchmark scores are sensitive to reasoning effort, harness, tools, token budget, prompt format, sampling, and evaluation date. Scores here retain their source and should not be treated as directly interchangeable unless the underlying setup matches.

ARC-AGI-2

77.1%

abstract reasoning · Google DeepMind3

SWE-Bench Pro

54.2%

software engineering · Google DeepMind3

MCP Atlas

78.2%

agentic tool use · Google DeepMind3

MMMU-Pro, no tools

80.5%

multimodal reasoning · Google DeepMind3

Humanity's Last Exam

44.4%

academic reasoning · Google DeepMind3

Family position

Gemini 3.1 positioning

Gemini 3.1 Pro was Google's most capable general Gemini model at launch. Gemini 3.5 Flash later surpassed it on many agentic benchmarks while targeting much higher throughput.

Gemini 3.1 Pro

This model

Deep reasoning preview

$2 input

$12 output

Gemini 3.5 Flash

Fast agentic model

$1.50 input

$9 output

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite

Low-cost volume

$0.25 input

$1.50 output

API pricing

Per million text tokens

Input

$2

Cached input

$0.20

Cache write

$2

Output

$12

Published prices are standard Gemini API text-token rates; media inputs, grounding, storage, and batch processing can be billed differently.

Where Gemini 3.1 Pro stands out

Built for demanding work

Complex multimodal analysis across text, images, audio, video, and PDFs are central to the model's positioning, rather than an incidental capability.

Long-context capacity

The published context window is 1,048,576 tokens, making the model a candidate for large documents, repositories, and sustained agent state.

Reasoning and tools

Reasoning is supported with low, medium, high provider setting(s), and the model can participate in tool-using workflows through its available API surface.

Limitations to know

Benchmarks are configuration-sensitive

Scores can move substantially with the harness, tool access, effort setting, token budget, and evaluator. Treat the table as evidence, not a universal ranking.

Context size is not guaranteed recall

A large advertised window does not mean every detail is retrieved reliably at maximum length. Validate representative long-context workloads before deployment.

Product access differs from model capability

PromptHQ and gateway limits may expose fewer modalities, tools, or tokens than the provider's first-party API.

Capabilities and specifications

Knowledge cutoff

Jan 1, 2025

Inputs

text, image, video, audio, PDF

Reasoning

Supported

Default effort

medium

Supported API features

Streaming
Function calling
Structured outputs
Web search
File search
Code interpreter
Tool search
Web and file search low, medium, high effort

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

  1. 1
    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

    Google AI for Developers · official documentation

  2. 2
  3. 3
    Gemini 3.5 Flash model card

    Google DeepMind · official model card

  4. 4
    Gemini 3.1 Pro API pricing and availability

    OpenRouter · gateway model page

  5. 5
    PromptHQ model registry

    PromptHQ · internal product configuration

Compare leading AI assistants

See how Gemini 3.1 Pro handles your own work.

Try Gemini 3.1 Pro in Multichat

Available on PromptHQ Plus, Max