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Demand share

Tokens routed through OpenRouter, per lab, from its published daily rankings. A proxy for relative demand while the labs are private — one aggregator’s traffic, never market share.

7-day share

30 days on record. Share is of every model in OpenRouter’s daily top 50 plus its aggregated “other” row.

Share of tokens routed, 2026-09-15 → 2026-09-21 · change vs 2026-09-08 → 2026-09-14

  • OpenAI10.5%−7.1 pp
  • Anthropic3.0%−0.3 pp
  • Google4.6%−0.7 pp
  • xAI0.2%−0.1 pp
  • Other81.8%+8.1 pp

Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of 2026-09-22T00:01:48.905Z. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

OpenRouter share, not market share — one aggregator’s traffic

OpenRouter usage rankings (daily) · dataset as of

Also published, not ingested (license or no data endpoint — see coverage): Artificial Analysis, LMArena (arena.ai)

Implied spend share

Tokens to open-weight models, dollars to the frontier labs: the window’s tokens at each vendor’s published list price, as a low–high range with the join’s coverage on every row.

Tokens routed 2026-09-15 → 2026-09-21, at each vendor’s list price as published — implied, not observed.

Implied OpenRouter-channel spend per lab, as a range, beside token share and price coverage
LabSpend shareImplied $Token sharePriced
OpenAInot priceable — see below—57.5% · 13.8T0.0%
Anthropic
82.1%
$16.8M–$84.0M16.2% · 3.89T100.0%
Google
14.9%–16.1%
$3.05M–$16.5M25.0% · 6.01T89.9%
xAI
1.8%–3.0%
$606K–$1.82M1.3% · 303B100.0%
In the token share, out of the dollar share
OpenAI: listed SKUs carry no published price on the vendor page. The spend share is among the labs that could be priced, and says nothing about the rest.

108T of 132T tokens in the window went to models outside the four labs (open-weight and others) and are not priced here — the “tokens to open source, economics to the frontier labs” split this table exists to show.

Implied OpenRouter-channel spend at list price — not revenue, not market share

Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of 2026-09-22T00:01:48.905Z. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

OpenRouter usage rankings (daily)OpenAI models.mdAnthropic models overview.mdAnthropic pricing.mdxAI models.mdGoogle Gemini API pricing

30-day series

Tokens routed per UTC day, stacked by lab. Hover a column for its values; the table view lists them all.

  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Google
  • xAI
  • Other
Tokens routed per UTC day, stacked by lab30 days; the table below carries every value. 06.25T12.5T18.8T25.0T2026-08-23: OpenAI 887B, Anthropic 439B, Google 762B, xAI 64.1B, Other 13.0T — total 15.1T2026-08-24: OpenAI 1.22T, Anthropic 764B, Google 946B, xAI 74.5B, Other 15.3T — total 18.4T2026-08-25: OpenAI 1.39T, Anthropic 731B, Google 1.51T, xAI 66.9B, Other 15.1T — total 18.8T2026-08-26: OpenAI 1.40T, Anthropic 748B, Google 1.71T, xAI 64.8B, Other 14.5T — total 18.4T2026-08-27: OpenAI 2.17T, Anthropic 681B, Google 1.17T, xAI 89.5B, Other 11.7T — total 15.8T2026-08-28: OpenAI 2.27T, Anthropic 656B, Google 932B, xAI 65.5B, Other 11.2T — total 15.1T2026-08-29: OpenAI 1.47T, Anthropic 429B, Google 782B, xAI 37.0B, Other 10.5T — total 13.2T2026-08-30: OpenAI 1.79T, Anthropic 414B, Google 712B, xAI 43.5B, Other 10.4T — total 13.3T2026-08-31: OpenAI 1.85T, Anthropic 659B, Google 843B, xAI 59.2B, Other 10.9T — total 14.3T2026-09-01: OpenAI 2.44T, Anthropic 699B, Google 991B, xAI 56.6B, Other 12.0T — total 16.2T2026-09-02: OpenAI 3.51T, Anthropic 738B, Google 1.08T, xAI 56.9B, Other 13.1T — total 18.5T2026-09-03: OpenAI 2.11T, Anthropic 861B, Google 1.19T, xAI 48.6B, Other 14.4T — total 18.6T2026-09-04: OpenAI 1.94T, Anthropic 956B, Google 1.00T, xAI 67.5B, Other 14.3T — total 18.3T2026-09-05: OpenAI 2.44T, Anthropic 668B, Google 736B, xAI 41.8B, Other 11.5T — total 15.3T2026-09-06: OpenAI 2.59T, Anthropic 647B, Google 713B, xAI 0, Other 10.3T — total 14.3T2026-09-07: OpenAI 3.21T, Anthropic 821B, Google 839B, xAI 54.2B, Other 14.1T — total 19.1T2026-09-08: OpenAI 2.72T, Anthropic 788B, Google 1.26T, xAI 69.4B, Other 14.2T — total 19.0T2026-09-09: OpenAI 1.93T, Anthropic 633B, Google 1.30T, xAI 60.8B, Other 14.0T — total 17.9T2026-09-10: OpenAI 3.33T, Anthropic 670B, Google 1.01T, xAI 74.3B, Other 14.1T — total 19.2T2026-09-11: OpenAI 2.41T, Anthropic 696B, Google 818B, xAI 67.1B, Other 13.8T — total 17.8T2026-09-12: OpenAI 4.22T, Anthropic 356B, Google 666B, xAI 36.3B, Other 11.8T — total 17.1T2026-09-13: OpenAI 4.29T, Anthropic 314B, Google 694B, xAI 32.2B, Other 11.4T — total 16.7T2026-09-14: OpenAI 3.20T, Anthropic 653B, Google 822B, xAI 56.7B, Other 13.4T — total 18.1T2026-09-15: OpenAI 2.01T, Anthropic 646B, Google 988B, xAI 60.2B, Other 14.0T — total 17.8T2026-09-16: OpenAI 2.06T, Anthropic 716B, Google 961B, xAI 56.2B, Other 14.6T — total 18.4T2026-09-17: OpenAI 2.62T, Anthropic 676B, Google 882B, xAI 52.2B, Other 15.7T — total 20.0T2026-09-18: OpenAI 1.98T, Anthropic 618B, Google 834B, xAI 47.8B, Other 16.0T — total 19.5T2026-09-19: OpenAI 1.51T, Anthropic 339B, Google 741B, xAI 0, Other 15.2T — total 17.8T2026-09-20: OpenAI 1.63T, Anthropic 305B, Google 687B, xAI 37.1B, Other 14.7T — total 17.3T2026-09-21: OpenAI 1.97T, Anthropic 593B, Google 914B, xAI 49.7B, Other 17.3T — total 20.8T08-2308-2809-0209-0709-1209-1709-21
Table view
Tokens routed per UTC day by lab
DateOpenAIAnthropicGooglexAIOtherTotal
2026-08-23887B439B762B64.1B13.0T15.1T
2026-08-241.22T764B946B74.5B15.3T18.4T
2026-08-251.39T731B1.51T66.9B15.1T18.8T
2026-08-261.40T748B1.71T64.8B14.5T18.4T
2026-08-272.17T681B1.17T89.5B11.7T15.8T
2026-08-282.27T656B932B65.5B11.2T15.1T
2026-08-291.47T429B782B37.0B10.5T13.2T
2026-08-301.79T414B712B43.5B10.4T13.3T
2026-08-311.85T659B843B59.2B10.9T14.3T
2026-09-012.44T699B991B56.6B12.0T16.2T
2026-09-023.51T738B1.08T56.9B13.1T18.5T
2026-09-032.11T861B1.19T48.6B14.4T18.6T
2026-09-041.94T956B1.00T67.5B14.3T18.3T
2026-09-052.44T668B736B41.8B11.5T15.3T
2026-09-062.59T647B713B010.3T14.3T
2026-09-073.21T821B839B54.2B14.1T19.1T
2026-09-082.72T788B1.26T69.4B14.2T19.0T
2026-09-091.93T633B1.30T60.8B14.0T17.9T
2026-09-103.33T670B1.01T74.3B14.1T19.2T
2026-09-112.41T696B818B67.1B13.8T17.8T
2026-09-124.22T356B666B36.3B11.8T17.1T
2026-09-134.29T314B694B32.2B11.4T16.7T
2026-09-143.20T653B822B56.7B13.4T18.1T
2026-09-152.01T646B988B60.2B14.0T17.8T
2026-09-162.06T716B961B56.2B14.6T18.4T
2026-09-172.62T676B882B52.2B15.7T20.0T
2026-09-181.98T618B834B47.8B16.0T19.5T
2026-09-191.51T339B741B015.2T17.8T
2026-09-201.63T305B687B37.1B14.7T17.3T
2026-09-211.97T593B914B49.7B17.3T20.8T

Top models per lab

Most-routed models in the share window, by tokens; the percentage is of the lab’s own window total.

OpenAI

  1. openai/gpt-5.6-luna-202607098.48T61.5%
  2. openai/gpt-5.6-sol-202607092.03T14.7%
  3. openai/gpt-6-astra-202609031.81T13.1%
  4. openai/gpt-oss-120b626B4.5%
  5. openai/gpt-5.6-terra-20260709597B4.3%
openrouter.ai

Anthropic

  1. anthropic/claude-sonnet-5-202606301.51T38.8%
  2. anthropic/claude-opus-5-202607231.17T30.0%
  3. anthropic/claude-fable-5.1-20260831493B12.7%
  4. anthropic/claude-4.8-opus-20260528422B10.8%
  5. anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217301B7.7%
openrouter.ai

Google

  1. google/gemini-3.8-flash-202609022.24T37.3%
  2. google/gemini-3-flash-preview-20251217792B13.2%
  3. google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite677B11.3%
  4. google/gemini-3.7-flash-20260813550B9.2%
  5. google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-20260507496B8.3%
openrouter.ai