AI model leaderboard

Best for the job

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Most used this week

Where the tokens actually go

Tokens processed through OpenRouter in the week to 18 October 2026, with the change on the week before and the last 30 days day by day. Usage is a sign of what works in practice, not a quality score.

1. 1DeepSeek V4.1 Flash · DeepSeek32.8T ▼19.9%
2. 2GLM 5.3 Flash · Z.ai12.2T 0%
3. 3Step 5 Preview · StepFun11.5T new
4. 4MiMo-V2.6-Flash · Xiaomi9.9T ▼13.3%
5. 5Hy4 preview · Tencent7.6T ▼8.7%
6. 6GPT-6 Luna · OpenAI6.3T ▼10.9%
7. 7Claude Opus 5.5 · Anthropic6.2T ▲23.1%
8. 8GLM 5.3 · Z.ai5.2T ▲37.2%
9. 9Nemotron 3 Ultra · NVIDIA5T ▼27.6%
10. 10DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · DeepSeek4.7T ▼4.4%
11. 11DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 · DeepSeek3.7T new
12. 12Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor · Meta3.3T ▲44.6%
13. 13Hy3 · Tencent3.1T ▲23.7%
14. 14DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 · DeepSeek3T ▼1.5%
15. 15jev 1.13 · typesafe3T ▼10%

Market share by maker

Who is winning, week by week

Each maker's share of all tokens on OpenRouter over the last year. Hover a week for the numbers.

Rising and falling

What changed this week

Among models doing at least 200 billion tokens a week, plus models released in the last 30 days that are already getting used.

The full board

Every model, one row each

Click a column to sort. Batch, free and hosted copies of a model are folded into one row. A dash means nobody has published that number yet.

What AI agents run on

Most tool calls this week

A tool call is a model taking an action: searching, running code, using an app. This is the best public sign of which models people trust with agent work.

1. · Others74.3M
2. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 · DeepSeek20.9M
3. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash · DeepSeek19.6M
4. GLM 5.3 Flash · Z.ai16.9M
5. Hy4 preview · Tencent11.6M
6. GPT-6 Luna · OpenAI10.3M
7. MiMo-V2.6-Flash · Xiaomi9.4M
8. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · DeepSeek6M

Top apps this week

The apps burning the most tokens

The tools people build with, ranked by tokens they sent through OpenRouter last week.

1. 1Hermes Agent13.1T

   Hermes Agent is an open-source, self-improving AI agent by Nous Research that runs persistently with memory across sessions, and builds reusable skills from experience. It comes with 40+ built-in tools, including web search, browser automation, and vision, plus scheduled automati

2. 2Claude Code11.3T

   Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool that reads your entire codebase, plans and executes changes across files, runs tests, and iterates on failures, all from natural language prompts.

3. 3Kilo Code5.9T

   Kilo Code is an open-source AI coding agent that works across VS Code, JetBrains, and CLI to help developers ship code faster with agentic workflows.

4. 4Cline3.8T

   Cline is an open-source AI coding agent that lives inside your IDE, autonomously exploring your codebase, editing files, running terminal commands, and using browser automation.

5. 5pi3.3T

   There are many coding agents, but this one is yours.

6. 6OpenClaw2.6T

   OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent that connects to your messaging apps and takes real actions on your behalf, from running commands and browsing the web to managing files and sending emails.

7. 7Codex1.4T

   A coding agent that helps you build and ship with AI

8. 8OpenHands765B

   AI coding agent that can run commands, browse the web, call APIs

9. 9ISEKAI ZERO605B

   AI adventures. Travel with your favorite characters

10. 10Lemonade458B

    The AI tool for Roblox games.

11. 11Portkey AI336B

    Control panel for AI apps