Google Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Live per-token pricing via OpenRouter, verified 12 Aug 2026. Batch and long-context tiers are not published in the feed, so they are omitted rather than estimated.
An estimate from published per-token pricing and your assumptions. Actual costs vary by provider and usage tier.
Same workload as the calculator above, at each model's current price. Monthly USD.
Routed-token share over time. A price line joins it as real changes are recorded.
Low cost · adoption flat. Observed relationship, not proof of causation.
Availability monitoring is derived from OpenRouter provider uptime; it refreshes with the daily build. Latency and throughput are not exposed by the data source, so we do not report them rather than estimate.
| Context window | 1M |
| Reasoning | ✓ Supported |
| Tool calling | ✓ Supported |
| Structured output | ✓ Supported |
| Image input | ✓ Supported |
| Audio input | ✓ Supported |
| Video input | ✓ Supported |
| Open weights | — Proprietary |
| API availability | ✓ Yes |
| Commercial license | Verify terms with the provider |
- Current rank
- #20
- Peak rank
- #11
- Routed share
- 0.94%
- Peak share
- 2.29%
- Weeks ranked
- 14
- First tracked
- 4 May 2026
- Region of origin
- US · United States
- Provider
- Model family
- Not publicly disclosed
- Release date
- Not publicly disclosed
- Type
- Multimodal (text + image)
- Modalities
- text, image, file, audio, video
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Weights
- Proprietary
- License
- Not publicly disclosed
In the week ending 12 Aug 2026, Google Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite held at #20 with 0.94% of routed tokens and a peak rank of #11. Over 14 tracked weeks its routed share has moved from 2.29% to 0.94% (-1.35 pp).
A sourced weekly interpretation of what is driving this model's routing is added as the record accumulates. yellow3 does not publish a reason for movement unless the routed-traffic data or a cited source supports it.
| Week ending | Rank | Routed share | Δ share | Movement | Region rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Aug 2026 | #20 | 0.94% | -0.05 | –no change | #11 | ranked |
| 5 Aug 2026 | #20 | 0.99% | -0.26 | ▼ 5places down | #10 | ranked |
| 29 Jul 2026 | #15 | 1.25% | +0.31 | ▲ 2places up | #6 | ranked |
| 22 Jul 2026 | #17 | 0.94% | -0.04 | –no change | #8 | ranked |
| 15 Jul 2026 | #17 | 0.98% | -0.25 | –no change | #9 | ranked |
| 8 Jul 2026 | #17 | 1.23% | -0.07 | ▼ 1places down | #9 | ranked |
| 1 Jul 2026 | #16 | 1.31% | -0.07 | ▼ 1places down | #8 | ranked |
| 24 Jun 2026 | #15 | 1.38% | -0.19 | –no change | #6 | ranked |
| 17 Jun 2026 | #15 | 1.57% | +0.09 | ▲ 1places up | #6 | ranked |
| 10 Jun 2026 | #16 | 1.48% | -0.30 | ▼ 1places down | #8 | ranked |
| 3 Jun 2026 | #15 | 1.78% | -0.33 | ▼ 4places down | #7 | ranked |
| 27 May 2026 | #11 | 2.11% | +0.11 | ▲ 3places up | #5 | ranked |
| 20 May 2026 | #14 | 2.00% | -0.28 | ▼ 1places down | #6 | ranked |
| 13 May 2026 | #13 | 2.29% | – | NEW | #6 | NEW |
| Date | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Aug 2026 | $0.050 | $0.20 | ▼ 50% | OpenRouter listed price |
| 31 Jul 2026 | $0.100 | $0.40 | ▲ 100% | OpenRouter listed price |
| 28 Jul 2026 | $0.050 | $0.20 | ▼ 50% | OpenRouter listed price |
| 12 Jul 2026 | $0.100 | $0.40 | — | OpenRouter listed price |
- 4 May 2026First trackedDerived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 13 May 2026Entered top 20Derived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 13 May 2026Peak routed share 2.29%Derived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 27 May 2026Biggest weekly rise +3 placesDerived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 5 Aug 2026Biggest weekly fall -5 placesDerived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
Region reflects where the model's developer is headquartered. Figures are OpenRouter routing traffic, aggregated over a trailing seven days - developer routing behaviour, not the whole market.