Google Gemini Drops to 1.9% Market Share in July

Google's flagship AI model is shrinking in the marketplace, according to three separate sets of data released this week. Pangram, a platform that analyzes text to detect which AI model produced it, tracked model market shares across millions of submitted documents. The firm found that OpenAI has held more than 50 percent share every single month since it started tracking, while Anthropic's Claude has surged from 4.3 percent to 14.9 percent, driven largely by adoption in technical and scientific writing.

Google's Gemini tells a different story. Pangram recorded Gemini's share falling from 12 percent to 1.9 percent by July 2026, a drop the company's researchers described in stark terms. OpenRouter, which tracks API usage across models, shows a similar pattern. Similarweb's web traffic numbers add another angle: Google's site share slipped slightly last month, from 27 to 26.8 percent, even though that figure was just 9.4 percent a year earlier.

Google has pushed back with its own numbers, touting one billion monthly Gemini App users. But that metric measures something different than the usage patterns Pangram and OpenRouter are picking up on.