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Google: Veo 3.1 Lite

google/veo-3.1-lite

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Google's most cost-effective video generation model, designed for high-volume applications and rapid iteration. Veo 3.1 Lite generates 720p and 1080p video from text or image prompts with native synchronized audio at less than 50% of the cost of Veo 3.1 Fast. Supports 4–8 second clips in landscape (16:9) and portrait (9:16) formats, with SynthID watermarking. Ideal for content platforms, short-form video creation, and automated media generation.

Modalities
Price
from $0.05/second
Released
Apr 23, 2026
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Playground

Providers

This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request to it directly — no routing decisions to make.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

API

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

Not currently available through EU in-region routing. In-region routing docs

Documentation

Guides, cookbooks, blog posts, and tools for building with Google: Veo 3.1 Lite on OpenRouter.

  • Best Image-to-Video AI Models in 2026: Cost, Resolution, and ControlBlog post

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End-to-end latency
47.44s

P50, best provider

Uptime (3d)The model was reachable. Request routed to a provider.
100.00%
Availability (3d)The model returned inference from any provider. Errors and empty responses count against it.
92.62%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours
Availability 92.62%
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Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability
92.17%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.

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Frequently asked questions

Google's most cost-effective video generation model, designed for high-volume applications and rapid iteration. Veo 3.1 Lite generates 720p and 1080p video from text or image prompts with native synchronized audio at less than 50% of the cost of Veo 3.1 Fast. Supports 4–8 second clips in landscape (16:9) and portrait (9:16) formats, with SynthID watermarking.

The Veo 3.1 Lite documentation on OpenRouter includes the Best Image-to-Video AI Models in 2026: Cost, Resolution, and Control blog post. The quickstart covers API keys and your first request, and the API reference lists every parameter.

Veo 3.1 Lite costs from $0.05/second at 720p to $0.08/second at 1080p for Video (with audio) and from $0.03/second at 720p to $0.05/second at 1080p for Video (no audio).

Veo 3.1 Lite supports 4, 6, and 8 second clips, can be steered with a first frame and last frame image, and produces a matching audio track.

Veo 3.1 Lite accepts text and images as input and returns video.

Veo 3.1 Fast and Veo 3.1 are other video models from Google.

Veo 3.1 Lite was released on April 23, 2026.