The AI usage report
The AI model market, measured.
Trillions of tokens move through public AI gateways every day. Tidelines tracks which LLMs win them, what they cost, and how fast that changes.
It is an LLM leaderboard built on real usage rather than benchmarks: live token usage rankings, market share by lab and model, price per million tokens, and daily momentum — recomputed every day from archived gateway snapshots.
Data as of 2026-09-01
Top 15 models
Each tile is a single model's share % over its recorded window.
▲ 9.61pp· 30d
▲ 2.44pp· 30d
▲ 8.18pp· 30d
▲ 0.31pp· 30d
▲ 4.67pp· 30d
▼ 6.41pp· 30d
▼ 5.55pp· 30d
▼ 4.96pp· 30d
▼ 1.56pp· 30d
▲ 1.72pp· 30d
▲ 1.42pp· 30d
▲ 1.52pp· 30d
▼ 1.25pp· 30d
▼ 0.54pp· 30d
▼ 0.01pp· 30d
Labs at a glance
Current share, 30-day change, and a mini sparkline for each of the top 8 labs.
The market, over time
100% stacked share of the top 15 models plus everyone else (7d moving average, from Jan 2026).
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash gained 9.6pp of OpenRouter share in the last 30 days, now at 11.6%.
Top mover · 30d
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash gained 9.6pp of OpenRouter token share in the last 30 days, now at 11.6%. Source: Tidelines, 2026-09-01.
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Top mover · 30d
+9.61pp
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash
Now 11.6% of OpenRouter tokens
New entrant
0.6%
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
First appearance in the top 12 this quarter
Token Price Index
−12%
Quarter over quarter
Weighted output-token cost, top 20 models
Risers
- +9.61pp↑9.61
- +8.18pp↑8.18
- +4.67pp↑4.67
- +2.44pp↑7.03
- +1.72pp↓1.44
Fallers
- -6.41pp↑0.73
- -5.55pp↓2.31
- -4.96pp↓4.25
- -2.36pp↓0.33
- -1.97pp↑0.31