Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free)
Based on weekly OpenRouter usage tracked by AI Tier List, Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free) ranks #17 overall — ahead of Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite at #20. Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free) is cheaper on input tokens at Free/1M vs $0.25/1M for Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite. Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite offers the larger context window at 1M tokens.
Spec Comparison
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free) | |
|---|---|---|
| Author | poolside | |
| Input price (per 1M tokens) | $0.25 | Free |
| Output price (per 1M tokens) | $1.50 | Free |
| Context window | 1M | 262K |
| Input modalities | text, image, video, file, audio | text |
| Output modalities | text | text |
| AA Intelligence | — | — |
| AA Coding | — | — |
| AA Agentic | — | — |
| Released | May 2026 | Apr 2026 |
Usage Rank by Task
| Task | Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free) |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | #20 | #17 |
| Classification & Tagging | #8 | — |
| Customer Support | #8 | — |
| Data Extraction | #6 | — |
| Image Processing | #8 | — |
| Translation | #10 | — |
FAQ
Usage ranks are weekly data aggregated by OpenRouter. Prices are USD per 1M tokens.