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Price/capability frontier position, benchmark scores, and community signal

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Model Release Radar

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

google·closed weights·Proprietary·released Thursday, Feb 19, 2026

Token prices

USD per million tokens via OpenRouter, Google AI Studio (google-ai-studio). Checked 2026-10-17 00:21 UTC.

Token type	USD /1M
Input	$2
Output	$12
Cache read	$0.2
Cache write (default)	Unverified basis
Cache write (1 hour)	Unknown

Cache-write rates with a verified basis replace the ordinary input charge. Unknown rates are never treated as zero. Long-context tiers apply; use the comparison page for a prompt length estimate.

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Frontier position

Behind frontier AA coding index (blended per-1M-token price, 3:1 input/output; not a measured per-task cost) - GPT-5.6 Terra, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Qwen3.8 Max (0902), Grok 4.6, Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B are priced the same or lower and at least as capable.
Behind frontier AA intelligence index (blended per-1M-token price, 3:1 input/output; not a measured per-task cost) - GPT-5.6 Terra, Gemini 4 Argon, Claude Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Sol are priced the same or lower and at least as capable.
Behind frontier DeepSWE pass@1 (agentic coding) (measured USD per task) - Gemini 3.7 Flash, Gemini 3.8 Flash, GPT-5.6 Terra, Claude Opus 5, Grok 4.6 are priced the same or lower and at least as capable.

Cost vs. capability

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Benchmark scores

Measured cost per task (DeepSWE)

Benchmark	Pass@1	Measured cost / task	Frontier
DeepSWE (agentic coding) (high effort, 95% CI 10.2%-13.2%, 4 runs)	11.7%	$2.14 (median $1.72)	behind

Artificial Analysis scores

Artificial Analysis scores describe capability. Compare them against estimated token spend with your cache mix; these estimates are not measured task costs.

Benchmark	Score
AA intelligence index	29.7
AA coding index	68.8

Community signal

Variant	Coding Elo	Overall Elo	Votes
Rating	1,484	1,480	127,649