Lab

Alibaba

Combined 1.33% · 30d +0.11pp

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Alibaba's Qwen family is one of the broadest open-weights line-ups in the market, covering text, code and multimodal variants.

As of 2026-10-14, Tidelines tracks 4 Alibaba models on OpenRouter, together accounting for 1.33% of measured token share (+0.11pp over the last 30 days). Its most-used model is Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B at 0.49% of all tracked tokens, or 37% of Alibaba's own volume. The charts below break that down by model, tokens per day and estimated spend, updated daily.

Alibaba tokens per day & est. spend per day

Combined lab tokens × list price (30/70 blend). 69-day archive · list-rate estimate.

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

Alibaba's combined tokens grew ~21× over the last 69 days of archive to 351.3B/day.

Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of 2026-10-14. · tidelines.ai/labs/alibaba

Alibaba combined share of tokens

Sum of all Alibaba models' share on OpenRouter. 30d change: +0.11pp.

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of 2026-10-14. · tidelines.ai/labs/alibaba

Model mix over time

Each Alibaba model as a share of the lab's combined tokens.

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Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of 2026-10-14. · tidelines.ai/labs/alibaba

Where the tokens go vs where the dollars go

Each Alibaba model's share of the lab's tokens paired with its share of estimated spend (latest day, list-rate).

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B takes 18% of Alibaba's tokens but 43% of its estimated spend.

Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of 2026-10-14. · tidelines.ai/labs/alibaba

Citable stat

As of 2026-10-14, Alibaba's combined share on OpenRouter is 1.33% (+0.11pp / 30d). Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of 2026-10-14. tidelines.ai

Models

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
ModelShare ↓Tokens/dEst. $/d7d Δ30d Δ$/M out
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B0.49%130B$97K+0.17+0.17$1.00
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash0.36%94B$35K+0.09-0.06$0.47
Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B0.25%65B$104K-0.12+0.06$2.20
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash0.24%62B$6.2K-0.01-0.06$0.13

as of 2026-10-14