Migrating from gemini-3-pro-preview to gemini-3.1-pro-preview
What changes when you move from gemini-3-pro-preview to gemini-3.1-pro-preview: prices, limits, features and parameters, read from each company's own pages.
- Status
- Retired
- Shutdown
- Mar 9, 2026 at the earliest
- Time left
- —
- Status
- Active
- Shutdown
- none announced
- Time left
- —
Prices
USD per 1M tokens, standard tier| Type | gemini-3-pro-preview | gemini-3.1-pro-preview | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | Not published | $2.00first seen October 1, 2026 · source | — |
| Cached input | Not published | $0.20first seen October 1, 2026 · source | — |
| Output | Not published | $12.00first seen October 1, 2026 · source | — |
Other tiers, prompt-size bands and modalities are on each model's page.
Limits
Tokens| Limit | gemini-3-pro-preview | gemini-3.1-pro-preview | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1,048,576 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | 1,048,576 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | 0% |
| Max output tokens | 65,536 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | 65,536 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | 0% |
Benchmarks
Same benchmark and source on both sides; settings named where they differ| Benchmark | gemini-3-pro-preview | gemini-3.1-pro-preview | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arena TextArena. | 1485 ±4 | 1487 ±3 | +2 within range |
| Arena Text: CodingArena. | 1517 ±7 | 1521 ±5 | +4 within range |
| Arena WebDevArena. | 1440 ±8 | 1447 ±5 | +7 within range |
| Arena VisionArena. | 1289 ±7 | 1280 ±5 | −9 within range |
| Arena SearchArena. | 1201 ±5 | 1207 ±5 | +6 within range |
| Arena DocumentArena. | 1451 ±9 | 1459 ±5 | +8 within range |
GPQA DiamondEpoch AI, high effort (vs no setting).Other settings
| 92.6% | 94.4% | +1.8 pts |
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025Epoch AI, high effort (vs no setting).Other settings
| 91.4% | 95.6% | +4.2 pts |
A score from one source is never compared with another source's, and company-reported scores are compared only within the same company; settings named where they differ. Data: Arena (arena.ai), CC BY 4.0; Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (epoch.ai/benchmarks), CC BY.
Features and parameters
Compare modelsSame on both
- Structured outputs: supported on both.gemini-3-pro-preview: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.1-pro-preview: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Function calling: supported on both.gemini-3-pro-preview: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.1-pro-preview: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Prompt caching: supported on both.gemini-3-pro-preview: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.1-pro-preview: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Batch API: supported on both.gemini-3-pro-preview: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.1-pro-preview: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Image input: supported on both.gemini-3-pro-preview: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.1-pro-preview: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- PDF input: supported on both.gemini-3-pro-preview: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.1-pro-preview: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Reasoning / thinking: supported on both.gemini-3-pro-preview: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.1-pro-preview: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Built-in web search: supported on both.gemini-3-pro-preview: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.1-pro-preview: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
Not published for gemini-3-pro-preview: Fine-tuning, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs.
Not published for gemini-3.1-pro-preview: Fine-tuning, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs.
Aliases
All aliasesNo aliases point at gemini-3-pro-preview.
Aliases pointing at gemini-3.1-pro-preview: gemini-3-pro-preview (since March 9, 2026, per Google · source)
Checklist
- Change the model string from
gemini-3-pro-previewtogemini-3.1-pro-preview.
Compared from AIWire's published data when this page loaded. Each fact links to the page it came from. Model pages: gemini-3-pro-preview, gemini-3.1-pro-preview.