Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

OpenRouter · 2026-09-12

OpenRouter rankings

Every model on the OpenRouter gateway, ranked by the tokens it actually processed. Not a benchmark — this is where developer traffic and developer money went.

Models tracked

50

with measurable traffic

Tokens / day

16T

latest archived day

Est. $ / day

$26.0M

tokens × list price

Leader

22.75%

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna

What the OpenRouter rankings show in September 2026

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna holds 22.75% of tracked OpenRouter tokens, moving +15.66pp over the last 30 days. At the lab level, OpenAI accounts for 24.7% of all traffic across 5 models.

Share is computed from the daily token counts OpenRouter publishes, archived once a day so that 7-day and 30-day changes compare like for like. Estimated dollars apply each model's list price (30% prompt / 70% completion) to its token volume, which is why a model can carry a large share of tokens and a small share of spend.

Top 50 models on OpenRouter

Ranked by share of gateway tokens on the latest archived day.

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
#ModelLabShare %Tokens/d7d Δ30d Δ
1OpenAI: GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI
22.75
3.9T+9.63pp+15.66pp
2Tencent: Hy4 previewTencent
8.76
1.5T-4.56pp+6.35pp
3DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek
8.37
1.4T+4.84pp+4.84pp
4DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731DeepSeek
7.88
1.3T-3.41pp-6.79pp
5Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashZ-AI
7.88
1.3T-1.68pp+5.92pp
6Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5Xiaomi
5.63
961B+4.80pp+1.46pp
7NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 UltraNvidia
3.47
592B-0.10pp+2.17pp
8DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423DeepSeek
2.97
506B-1.39pp-3.18pp
9Tencent: Hy3Tencent
2.78
473B+0.54pp-10.67pp
10Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 ContributorOther
1.50
257B+0.00pp+0.74pp
11Upstage: Solar Pro 4Other
1.41
241B+0.13pp+0.93pp
12Z.ai: GLM 5.3Z-AI
1.37
234B-1.08pp+0.83pp
13Google: Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle
1.34
228B-0.07pp+1.04pp
14DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423DeepSeek
1.10
188B+0.31pp-2.86pp
15MiniMax: MiniMax M3MiniMax
1.06
181B-0.16pp-0.85pp
16Z.ai: GLM 5.2Z-AI
1.03
176B-1.04pp-4.62pp
17Poolside: Laguna S 2.1Other
0.98
168B-0.12pp-1.25pp
18MoonshotAI: Kimi K3Moonshot
0.98
167B-0.95pp-1.18pp
19Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic
0.76
129B-0.15pp-1.01pp
20OpenAI: GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI
0.76
129B-0.46pp-0.19pp
21inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash FinOther
0.74
126B-0.02pp+0.45pp
22NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 LightningNvidia
0.73
124B-0.36pp-0.37pp
23Google: Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle
0.58
99B-0.14pp-0.59pp
24DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813DeepSeek
0.58
99B-0.21pp-0.70pp
25Google: Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle
0.58
98B-0.16pp-0.45pp
26Claude Opus 5Anthropic
0.56
96B-1.02pp-1.40pp
27Dots Studio: Dots3-Note Preview (free)Other
0.56
95B+0.37pp+0.37pp
28Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash LiteGoogle
0.53
91B-0.08pp-0.41pp
29OpenAI: GPT-6 AstraOpenAI
0.49
83B+0.02pp+0.02pp
30Nex AGI: Nex-N2.5-Pro (free)Other
0.46
78B+0.21pp+0.21pp
31OpenAI: gpt-oss-120bOpenAI
0.42
72B+0.12pp-0.18pp
32inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VLOther
0.40
68B+0.14pp+0.14pp
33Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Alibaba
0.37
64B+0.14pp+0.14pp
34Google: Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle
0.32
55B-0.08pp-0.32pp
35NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 SuperNvidia
0.32
55B-0.03pp-0.08pp
36DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2DeepSeek
0.32
55B-0.10pp-0.17pp
37Qwen: Qwen3.8 FlashAlibaba
0.31
53B+0.07pp+0.12pp
38Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteGoogle
0.30
52B-0.02pp-0.31pp
39OpenAI: GPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI
0.30
52B-0.02pp-1.11pp
40Thinking Machines: InklingOther
0.29
50B+0.05pp+0.06pp
41Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic
0.29
49B+0.02pp-0.08pp
42Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic
0.27
47B-0.05pp-0.92pp
43inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Sante (free)Other
0.27
45B+0.06pp+0.06pp
44Qwen: Qwen3.7 FlashAlibaba
0.26
45B+0.08pp+0.07pp
45Google: Gemma 4 31BGoogle
0.26
44B-0.02pp-0.54pp
46Mistral: Mistral NemoMistral
0.25
43B+0.02pp+0.03pp
47Meta: Muse Spark 1.3Other
0.21
37B-0.01pp-0.01pp
48SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6xAI
0.21
36B-0.06pp-0.38pp
49DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeek
0.21
36B-0.22pp+0.02pp
50Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic
0.21
35B-1.07pp-0.78pp
Data: OpenRouter as of 2026-09-12 · Source: tidelines.ai/openrouter-rankings

OpenRouter rankings FAQ

What are the OpenRouter rankings?
A daily ranking of every model routed through the OpenRouter gateway, ordered by the share of tokens it processes. Tidelines archives the public OpenRouter token counts each day and computes share, momentum and estimated spend from them.
Which model has the highest OpenRouter usage?
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (OpenAI) leads with 22.75% of tracked OpenRouter tokens as of 2026-09-12.
How often do the rankings update?
Once a day. Each day's snapshot is archived, so the 7-day and 30-day changes are measured against real historical data rather than recomputed estimates.
Is this the same as an LLM benchmark leaderboard?
No. Benchmark leaderboards score models on test sets. These rankings measure what developers actually send traffic to and pay for.