Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claims Top AI Benchmarks While Undercutting Rivals on Price
Summary
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Pro, claiming top AI benchmark performance over rivals Claude and GPT while offering dramatically lower pricing at $2 per million input tokens, making it available now to both consumers and developers across multiple platforms.
Key Points
- Google unveils Gemini 3.1 Pro, a flagship AI model that outperforms Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's GPT models in benchmarks covering reasoning, scientific knowledge, agentic coding, and long-horizon professional tasks.
- Gemini 3.1 Pro supports multimodal inputs including text, images, audio, and video with a 1 million token context window, and is priced at $2 per million input tokens and $12 per million output tokens, significantly undercutting Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 at $5 and $25 respectively.
- The model is now available to consumers via the Gemini app and NotebookLM under Google AI Pro and Ultra Plans, and to developers through platforms including AI Studio, Vertex AI, Gemini Enterprise, Gemini CLI, and Android Studio.