Site has extremely detailed stats by day/week for every model. Programming is by far the largest consumer of tokens, and in fact entire token growth in 2025 was only from programming. Other categories very flat. It is also a category where you would pay for better performance.
IMO, its relevant to this sub in that one of the top models, minimax, fits in under 256gb, but also that the trends are for cost effectiveness rather than “the absolute best”. There is a tangent insight as to whether US datacenter frenzy is needed.
kimi k2.5 being free on openclaw is a big reason for its total dominance. In week of Feb 2, minimax was only other top model to increase token usage. Opus 4.6 release seems to be extremely flat in reception.
Agentic trend tends to make LLM models disposable, since better ones are released every week, and the agents/platforms that can switch on the fly while keeping context, is something you can invest in improving while not being obsolete next month.
Who exactly is using OpenRouter? Is this used for coding? Bots? Casual conversations? Because that could tell what exactly those top models are good at.
I wish GitHub Copilot shared such data. To see what models do programmers use for work.
OpenRouter is basically the place for third-party AI stuff: tools, research, benchmarks…
Sure, it won’t tell you what regular users are doing, but it shows where professionals actually spend money. And since it’s pricey (seriously, once you’re used to free ChatGPT or Gemini, paying hurts :D), it reveals which models are actually worth it.
I think it’s the largest aggregator/portal of models. 10T tokens in week of feb 2. there’s a list of Openclaw, claudcode, kilocode are among the apps that opt in for tracking (listed at bottom of page). https://openrouter.ai/apps?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkilocode.ai%2F Since Jan 29th, top 2-3 models have been Chinese every day. minimax, glm k2. ponyalpha is glm5 preview.
opencode and antigravity and most other coding apps have an openrouter “gateway” connection. You can also connect by web chat. Some models get promotional/free periods or tokens for partners which can boost stats significantly, but that includes fast/flash versions of US models.
It’s the only dashboard for AI. And exceptionally exhaustive/interactive. Even if open source share rise is result of promotions, its significant that token counts for US models is trending down. Models are no longer sticky, even if for non programming applications, mindshare publicity can get the casuals.