Gemini 3.1 Pro
Google·Mar 2026reasoningproprietary
Gemini 3.1 Pro is Google's top generally-available model and the context-window leader of the frontier: 2 million tokens, enough for entire codebases, hours of video or thousands of pages in a single prompt. Long-context prompts above 200K tokens carry a pricing premium, and batch processing halves costs. For multimodal analysis and massive-context retrieval workloads it is the strongest option on the market.
Benchmark results
Where it shines
- 2M-token context — the largest of any frontier model
- State-of-the-art video, audio and document understanding
- Aggressive $2/$12 pricing for a flagship
Alternatives to Gemini 3.1 Pro
Alibaba's trillion-parameter API flagship — frontier-adjacent quality with strong agentic tool use at mid-tier prices.
OpenAI's flagship reasoning model with a 1M-token context window, built for hard coding, science and long-horizon agentic work.
OpenAI's August 2025 unified flagship that merged the GPT and o-series reasoning lines into one model with selectable effort.
OpenAI's dedicated 2025 reasoning model that pioneered thinking-with-images and agentic tool use within chain-of-thought.
Frequently asked questions
- How much does the Gemini 3.1 Pro API cost?
- Gemini 3.1 Pro costs $2 per million input tokens and $12 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.2 per million. A workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month costs about $38.00.
- What is the context window of Gemini 3.1 Pro?
- Gemini 3.1 Pro supports a context window of 2,000,000 tokens (2M), with up to 66K output tokens per response.
- Is Gemini 3.1 Pro open source?
- No — Gemini 3.1 Pro is a proprietary model available through Google's API and partner platforms.
- What are the best alternatives to Gemini 3.1 Pro?
- The closest alternatives by overall capability are Qwen3-Max, GPT-5.5, GPT-5, OpenAI o3. See the comparison pages for detailed head-to-head breakdowns.