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OpenRouter · 2026-10-27

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

25T

latest archived day

Est. $ / day

$47.9M

tokens × list price

Leader

22.40%

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

What the OpenRouter rankings show in October 2026

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 holds 22.40% of tracked OpenRouter tokens, moving +18.67pp over the last 30 days. At the lab level, DeepSeek accounts for 36.0% of all traffic across 6 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
1DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017DeepSeek
22.40
6.0T+7.89pp+18.67pp
2DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek
8.75
2.4T-0.90pp-8.01pp
3Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashZ-AI
6.95
1.9T+1.61pp+1.99pp
4Tencent: Hy4 previewTencent
5.00
1.4T+0.17pp+0.12pp
5Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic
4.07
1.1T-0.34pp+3.08pp
6OpenAI: GPT-6 LunaOpenAI
4.01
1.1T+0.51pp+1.13pp
7MiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 FlashMiniMax
3.13
844B+2.64pp+2.64pp
8StepFun: Step 5 PreviewStepFun
2.97
802B+0.99pp+0.39pp
9Z.ai: GLM 5.3Z-AI
2.61
705B-0.02pp+1.56pp
10DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731DeepSeek
2.46
663B+0.41pp-1.64pp
11Jev 1.13Other
2.16
582B+0.53pp+0.40pp
12Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomi
1.93
520B-2.04pp-4.06pp
13Tencent: Hy3Tencent
1.72
464B-0.09pp+0.44pp
14NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 UltraNvidia
1.64
442B-1.65pp-3.28pp
15DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423DeepSeek
1.62
437B+0.16pp-0.34pp
16Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic
1.58
427B+0.12pp+1.19pp
17OpenAI: GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI
1.42
384B+0.59pp-4.01pp
18OpenAI: GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI
1.42
383B+0.23pp+0.99pp
19Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 ContributorOther
1.42
383B-0.14pp+0.43pp
20Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic
1.36
368B+0.46pp-0.04pp
21NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VLNvidia
1.25
338B+0.72pp-0.03pp
22Jev 1.14Other
1.12
303B+0.38pp+0.55pp
23MoonshotAI: Kimi K3Moonshot
1.11
300B+0.14pp+0.12pp
24Google: Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle
0.97
262B+0.05pp-0.12pp
25Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi
0.90
243B+0.03pp+0.13pp
26MoonshotAI: Kimi K3.1 ProMoonshot
0.81
218B+0.51pp+0.51pp
27Upstage: Solar Mini 4Other
0.77
207B+0.24pp+0.55pp
28Z.ai: GLM 5.2Z-AI
0.53
142B-0.06pp-0.12pp
29Google: Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle
0.50
136B+0.01pp-0.07pp
30Poolside: Laguna S 2.1Other
0.48
130B+0.02pp-0.24pp
31NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 LightningNvidia
0.47
128B-0.06pp+0.13pp
32DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813DeepSeek
0.45
121B-0.05pp-0.19pp
33Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteGoogle
0.42
113B+0.13pp+0.16pp
34Dots Studio: Dots3-Note Preview (free)Other
0.38
104B+0.11pp+0.04pp
35Google: Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle
0.35
94B+0.01pp-0.12pp
36DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423DeepSeek
0.33
89B-0.02pp-0.07pp
37Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic
0.32
85B-0.04pp-0.37pp
38OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna ProOpenAI
0.31
85B+0.04pp+0.06pp
39OpenAI: GPT-6.1 TerraOpenAI
0.31
83B+0.00pp+0.00pp
40Qwen: Qwen3.8 FlashAlibaba
0.31
83B-0.04pp-0.01pp
41Upstage: Solar Pro 4Other
0.27
73B+0.05pp-0.74pp
42StepFun: Step 3.7 FlashStepFun
0.26
70B+0.00pp+0.00pp
43Qwen: Qwen3.7 FlashAlibaba
0.26
69B+0.02pp-0.07pp
44Qwen: Qwen3.8 27BAlibaba
0.25
68B-0.04pp-0.03pp
45MiniMax: MiniMax M3MiniMax
0.25
67B-0.43pp-0.61pp
46Google: Gemma 4 31BGoogle
0.23
63B-0.09pp-0.06pp
47OpenAI: GPT-6 AstraOpenAI
0.23
61B-0.05pp-0.20pp
48Google: Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle
0.22
60B-0.03pp-0.04pp
49OpenAI: gpt-oss-120bOpenAI
0.21
56B-0.07pp-0.06pp
50Thinking Machines: InklingOther
0.20
55B-0.05pp-0.05pp
Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of 2026-10-27. · 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?
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (DeepSeek) leads with 22.40% of tracked OpenRouter tokens as of 2026-10-27.
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.