Gemini 3.1 Flash Live

Live API model for real-time audio-to-audio dialogue; Google calls it "our high-quality, low-latency audio-to-audio (A2A) model". Rates differ per input type: input $0.75 (text) / $3.00 or $0.005 per minute (audio) / $1.00 or $0.002 per minute (image/video); output $4.50 (text) / $12.00 or $0.018 per minute (audio). Values shown are the TEXT tier, matching how the catalog carries the other multi-tier Gemini rows. Grounding with Google Search: 5,000 free requests per month shared across Gemini 3.x, then $14 per 1,000 requests. Until 2026-10-06 Google stated "No shutdown date announced" and the status was held at preview. On the 2026-10-07 read Google's deprecations table publishes a shutdown date of November 17, 2026 for this endpoint (row not grey, so it is still running); status is therefore deprecated and retires_on carries that date. Google publishes shutdown dates as "the earliest possible dates on which a model might be retired". On 2026-09-15 Google began naming gemini-3.8-live as this endpoint's recommended replacement in the deprecations table, and demotes it on the models index to "Legacy Live API preview model. We recommend updating to Gemini 3.8 Live." The pointer was recorded then without a lifecycle date, because Google stated none until 2026-10-07. The rates below are also no longer this model's own: since 2026-09-15 the pricing page heads one Standard table with "Gemini 3.8 Live, Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, and Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview", so all three ids share these figures, which are unchanged from what this row already carried. Google's current models page publishes no input/output token limits for this endpoint (read 2026-08-19), so context_window and max_output_tokens are null rather than carried over from a page that no longer states them. Lifecycle read first-party from Google's deprecations table on 2026-08-19.

Source: Google official documentation ↗

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