Veo 3.1 Lite
The cheapest route to generated video by a wide margin, and the reason Veo's tiering is genuinely useful: iterate prompts at three to five cents per second, then re-render only the approved shot on the full model. Silent output and preview status, with regional availability and fixed quotas to check.
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veo-3.1-lite-generate-001 Price
$0.05
/ video sec
Context
—
not token-based
Max output
—
varies
Pricing caveat: 720p, video only, no audio. Quoted between $0.03 and $0.05/sec depending on route. Clips are 4, 6, or 8 seconds; access is quota-limited and regional.
Where Veo 3.1 Lite fits
- Prompt iteration and previsualisation
- Storyboard and animatic drafts
- Volume testing before committing budget
- Internal concept clips
Specifications
- API model ID
- veo-3.1-lite-generate-001
- Provider
- Model family
- Veo 3.1
- Released
- February 2026
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
- Context window
- —
- Max output
- —
- Native reasoning
- No
- Relative latency
- medium
- Input modalities
- text, image
- Output modalities
- video
- Open weights
- No
- Cached input
- —
- Batch discount
- —
Frequently asked
How much does Veo 3.1 Lite cost?
Veo 3.1 Lite is billed at $0.05 / video sec.
What is Veo 3.1 Lite's context window?
Context limits for Veo 3.1 Lite depend on the input format rather than a token count.
Is Veo 3.1 Lite a reasoning model?
No. Veo 3.1 Lite answers directly without a native thinking phase, which keeps latency and cost predictable.
What is Veo 3.1 Lite best for?
Cheap drafts during prompt iteration. The cheapest route to generated video by a wide margin, and the reason Veo's tiering is genuinely useful: iterate prompts at three to five cents per second, then re-render only the approved shot on the full model. Silent output and preview status, with regional availability and fixed quotas to check.