Lab

OpenAI

Combined 9.46% · 30d -5.05pp

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OpenAI is the San Francisco lab behind the GPT series, the most widely deployed commercial model family on public gateways.

As of 2026-10-08, Tidelines tracks 7 OpenAI models on OpenRouter, together accounting for 9.46% of measured token share (-5.05pp over the last 30 days). Its most-used model is OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna at 5.21% of all tracked tokens, or 55% of OpenAI's own volume. The charts below break that down by model, tokens per day and estimated spend, updated daily.

OpenAI tokens per day & est. spend per day

Combined lab tokens × list price (30/70 blend). 423-day archive · list-rate estimate.

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

OpenAI's combined tokens grew ~815× over the last 423 days of archive to 2.59T/day.

Data: OpenRouter as of 2026-10-08 · Source: tidelines.ai/labs/openai

OpenAI combined share of tokens

Sum of all OpenAI models' share on OpenRouter. 30d change: -5.05pp.

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
Data: OpenRouter as of 2026-10-08 · Source: tidelines.ai/labs/openai

Model mix over time

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

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Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
Data: OpenRouter as of 2026-10-08 · Source: tidelines.ai/labs/openai

Where the tokens go vs where the dollars go

Each OpenAI 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

OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra takes 18% of OpenAI's tokens but 79% of its estimated spend.

Data: OpenRouter as of 2026-10-08 · Source: tidelines.ai/labs/openai

Citable stat

As of 2026-10-08, OpenAI's combined share on OpenRouter is 9.46% (-5.05pp / 30d). Source: Tidelines.

Models

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
ModelShare ↓Tokens/dEst. $/d7d Δ30d Δ$/M out
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna5.21%1.3T$484K+0.25+4.85$0.50
OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol1.28%312B$2.37M+0.62+0.85$10.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna1.24%304B$274K-0.33-9.39$1.20
OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol0.64%156B$1.19M+0.11-0.04$10.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol0.46%113B$857K-0.59-0.91$10.00
OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra0.35%84B$3.21M-1.62-0.31$50.00
OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b0.29%70B$9.1K-0.02-0.10$0.17

as of 2026-10-08