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Veo 3.1 Lite

Retired

The per-second rates in this note are the last ones published: the pricing page carries no Veo 3.1 section on the 2026-10-23 read. Cheapest Veo tier, billed per second with audio: $0.05/s at 720p, $0.08/s at 1080p; 4K output is not supported. Paid tier only; token price fields are N/A. DEPRECATED: Google's deprecations table, read first-hand 2026-10-02, now lists veo-3.1-lite-generate-preview with release date March 31, 2026, shutdown date October 22, 2026 and gemini-omni-1.1-flash as the recommended replacement. Until 2026-10-23 the row was held at deprecated: on every read up to 2026-10-22 it was NOT grey, and grey is Google's own marker for an endpoint that is already off. The row was absent on the 2026-09-29 read (until then Google had announced no shutdown date), so the announcement landed between 2026-09-29 and 2026-10-02; Google does not date it, and deprecated_on stays null. Google publishes shutdown dates as "the earliest possible dates on which a model might be retired". CONFIRMED RETIRED 2026-10-23 on the only signal this catalog accepts for a Google shutdown: the veo-3.1-lite-generate-preview row on the deprecations page now carries a literal class="row-gray" on its <tr> (page: Last updated 2026-10-22 UTC), and that page's own legend reads "Already-shutdown models are indicated with gray backgrounds"; check-lifecycle-drift.mjs reported Google stating "shut-down" against our "deprecated". Corroborated on the same read by the model page (docs/models/veo-3.1-lite-generate-preview), whose banner now reads "veo-3.1-lite-generate-preview was shut down on October 22, 2026". The rate rows have left the pricing page, so the token price fields stay null and source_url now points at the deprecations table instead of the pricing page.

Veo 3.1 Lite by Google is tracked live in our LLM catalog. It has been retired (shut down 22 Oct 2026); the recommended migration is Gemini Omni Flash.

Last verified: 24 Oct 2026 · sourced from official provider documentation

Retired on 22 Oct 2026

Lifecycle warning

This model has been retired. Recommended migration: Gemini Omni Flash.

Read the Veo 3.1 Lite migration guide → replacement & cheapest alternatives

Provider
Google
Status
Retired
Input price
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Output price
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Cached input
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Blended price
—
Context window
—
Max output
—
Modality
text-in, video-out
Open weights
No — API only
Knowledge cutoff
—
Released
31 Mar 2026
API string
veo-3.1-lite-generate-preview

Source: Google official documentation ↗

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FAQ

Veo 3.1 Lite — questions & answers

Is Veo 3.1 Lite still available?

Veo 3.1 Lite has been retired and is no longer available. Its scheduled shutdown date is 22 Oct 2026. The recommended migration is Gemini Omni Flash.

Does Veo 3.1 Lite support image or vision input?

Our catalog lists Veo 3.1 Lite's modalities as text-in, video-out; image/vision input is not among them.

Can I self-host Veo 3.1 Lite?

No — Veo 3.1 Lite is proprietary. Its weights are not publicly released, so it is available only through Google's API (or hosted partners), not for self-hosting.

What is the API model string for Veo 3.1 Lite?

The API model identifier for Veo 3.1 Lite is "veo-3.1-lite-generate-preview" when calling Google's API.