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OpenRouter Data

Our industry-leading empirical data helps AI companies build and serve great models.

How We Think About Data

We don't sell prompt data. When we share data, it's aggregated usage trends that help the industry move forward.

We're an API business, not a data business — and we take our responsibility to protect customer data seriously.

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Social charts drawn from aggregate platform usage

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Top models by token volume on OpenRouter over the last 30 days

GPT 5.6 Luna cooks. Only closed model in the top 10 in token volume on OpenRouter over the last 30 days and #2 overall.

@PeterJ_WalkerSep 8, 2026
Indexed daily token usage for GPT 5.6 Terra and Luna during the discount window

What happened when GPT 5.6 Terra and Luna were heavily discounted on OpenRouter? Token usage exploded by 13.8x.

@OpenRouterAug 28, 2026
Token share by model author before, during, and after the GPT 5.6 discount

Some of the additional tokens were from older OpenAI models. But the bulk of the increase were net new tokens plus share taken from competitors.

@OpenRouterAug 28, 2026
Daily tokens processed by Ox Alpha on OpenRouter

Ox Alpha revealed: GLM-5.3-Flash. Ox Alpha was the biggest model ever on OpenRouter, processing over 20 trillion tokens in 6 days.

@OpenRouterAug 26, 2026
Share of OpenAI spend by model on OpenRouter since the GPT 5.6 launch

GPT 5.6 has quickly consumed share within the OpenAI model family. 5.6 Sol now sees 50%+ of spend from US businesses on OpenRouter.

@PeterJ_WalkerAug 24, 2026
Cost versus intelligence comparison for Muse Spark 1.2 contributor tier

Muse Spark 1.2 contributor tier on OpenRouter: $0.10/M input and $0.20/M output, frontier intelligence-per-dollar.

@OpenRouterAug 21, 2026
Spend on OpenRouter by task category

What people are currently paying AI to do. #1 workflow execution by agents, #2 generating code, #3 classifying lots of things.

@PeterJ_WalkerAug 20, 2026
Token consumption by humans versus agents on OpenRouter over time

Feb 6, 2026, potentially the last day in history when humans consumed more tokens than agents.

@PeterJ_WalkerAug 11, 2026

Trusted by Leading Institutions

OpenRouter operates one of the largest AI inference platforms in the world, generating an authoritative empirical dataset relied upon by government agencies, academic researchers, major industry analysts, and global media outlets.

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NIST / CAISI

U.S. Government

Used OpenRouter request counts as an empirical adoption metric to evaluate AI model diffusion, citing 97.5 million API requests within four weeks.

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MIT / Boston University

Academic Research

Economists constructed a model-day panel dataset from OpenRouter data to study LLM demand, substitution patterns, and multi-homing behavior.

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a16z + OpenRouter

State of AI 2025

The most comprehensive empirical study of LLM usage to date, analyzing 100 trillion tokens of anonymized request-level metadata across hundreds of models.

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Brookings Institution

Policy Research

Cited the State of AI study in a policy report on AI sovereignty, bringing empirical usage findings into government policy research.

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Reuters

Journalism

Used OpenRouter-derived market share statistics to contextualize competitive dynamics among LLM providers in mainstream financial and tech analysis.

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Cisco

Enterprise Industry

Cited OpenRouter rankings as market telemetry in a white paper on AI infrastructure and inference-era networking needs.

Reports & Live Data

In-depth research and real-time data products drawn from aggregate platform activity.

December 2025a16z + OpenRouter

State of AI 2025

An empirical 100T+ token study of LLM usage, model trends, and developer insights across OpenRouter.

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GPT 5.6 Discounts & Jevons Paradox

GPT 5.6 Discounts & Jevons Paradox

OpenAI introduced large discounts on their new Terra and Luna models from July 27th through August 14th. What impact did these discounts have on token volumes, total spend, and the competition?

August 25, 2026
DeepSeek V4 Is Earning Agentic Token Share

DeepSeek V4 Is Earning Agentic Token Share

DeepSeek doubled its token share on OpenRouter in six months. V4 Flash is the model that made it happen, and agentic workloads are driving the surge.

June 30, 2026
The Open Weight Models that Matter: June 2026

The Open Weight Models that Matter: June 2026

A slew of compelling open-weight models have shipped from new players in both China and the US. As of June 2026, these are the four open-weight models that matter the most — and when to reach for each.

June 27, 2026
A Robot is Sprinting Towards You: Do You Want it Running on Claude or Grok?

A Robot is Sprinting Towards You: Do You Want it Running on Claude or Grok?

A 30-game battle royale across eleven LLMs, $482 of inference, and one finding that should change how you read model benchmarks.

June 4, 2026
The 2025 State of AI Report

The 2025 State of AI Report

Introducing the 2025 State of AI report, in partnership with a16z. The largest empirical look yet at how developers and organizations use language models in the real world.

December 4, 2025

Model Rankings

Live rankings based on real usage data from millions of users accessing models through OpenRouter.

Models

Browse and compare hundreds of AI models available on OpenRouter, with pricing, context length, and capabilities.

Apps

Discover applications built on OpenRouter and explore the ecosystem of AI-powered tools and services.

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Access the same data that powers the public rankings page as JSON. The API returns the top 50 models per day by total token usage, authenticated with your existing OpenRouter API key.

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