Google · 2026-02-25
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools pricing
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools is a variant of Gemini 3.1 Pro that improves tool selection behavior by preventing overuse of a general bash tool when more efficient third-party...
Prices from OpenRouter’s models API, updated October 29, 2026
What Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools costs a month
| Workload | Standard |
|---|---|
| Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out | $234 |
| Daily summaries: 10,000 a day, 3,000 tokens in, 300 out | $2,880 |
| Coding agent: 400 calls a day, 60,000 tokens in (80% cached), 2,000 out | $691 |
30 days. Cached input billed at the cache-read price. Use your own numbers.
Cheaper models with a similar context window
| Model | Provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM 5.3 Flash | Z.ai | $0.046 | $0.074 | $0.03 | 1.05M | $2.95 |
| Ling 3.0 Flash VL | inclusionai | $0.06 | $0.18 | $0.012 | 131K | $4.86 |
| Ternary Bonsai 2 9B | prism-ml | $0.08 | $0.13 | $0.04 | 262K | $5.16 |
| Nex-N2.5-Pro | nex-agi | $0.075 | $0.25 | $0.015 | 262K | $6.38 |
| Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor | Meta | $0.10 | $0.20 | $0.002 | 1.05M | $6.90 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
Cheaper isn’t automatically as good. Glow’s GlowBench scores models on your kind of task before suggesting a swap.
Other Gemini models
| Model | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 4 Argon | $2 | $10 | $0.10 | 1.05M | $210 |
| Nano Banana 2.1 | $1.50 | $7.50 | – | 66K | $158 |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | $0.825 | $4.13 | $0.083 | 1.05M | $86.62 |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 | 1.05M | $78.75 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | $0.30 | $2.50 | $0.03 | 1.05M | $43.50 |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 | 1.05M | $78.75 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
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Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools: questions
How much does Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools cost?
$2 per 1M input tokens and $12 per 1M output tokens, with cached input at $0.20. A 1,000-token prompt with a 500-token answer costs about $0.0080.
What is Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools’s context window?
1,048,576 tokens, with up to 65,536 output tokens per response.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools?
GLM 5.3 Flash costs $0.046 in and $0.074 out per 1M tokens with a similar context window. Whether it matches Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools’s quality depends on the task: test it on your own prompts (Glow’s GlowBench does this per task).
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