Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite vs NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)
Based on weekly OpenRouter usage tracked by AI Tier List, NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) ranks #6 overall — ahead of Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite at #18. NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) is cheaper on input tokens at Free/1M vs $0.10/1M for Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite. Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite offers the larger context window at 1M tokens.
Spec Comparison
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) | |
|---|---|---|
| Author | nvidia | |
| Input price (per 1M tokens) | $0.10 | Free |
| Output price (per 1M tokens) | $0.40 | Free |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Input modalities | text, image, file, audio, video | text |
| Output modalities | text | text |
| AA Intelligence | — | — |
| AA Coding | — | — |
| AA Agentic | — | — |
| Released | Jul 2025 | Jun 2026 |
Usage Rank by Task
| Task | Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | #18 | #6 |
| Memory Extraction | — | #5 |
| Multi-step Planning | — | #9 |
| Web Search | — | #8 |
| Classification & Tagging | #2 | — |
| Debugging | — | #6 |
| DevOps Config | — | #6 |
| File Read/Write | — | #8 |
| Frontend UI | — | #8 |
| Code Implementation | — | #8 |
| Repo Analysis | — | #7 |
| Code Review & Security | — | #8 |
| Shell Execution | — | #8 |
| SQL & Database | — | #9 |
| Conversation | — | #6 |
FAQ
Usage ranks are weekly data aggregated by OpenRouter. Prices are USD per 1M tokens.