SF·SIX / SOURCE-BACKED RESEARCH
Most-used AI models
Daily token rankings of AI models on OpenRouter, with week-on-week change, share by developer and each model’s live standard API price.
On 2026-10-16 (UTC), the most-used AI model on OpenRouter was DeepSeek V4.1 Flash with 5,413,760,580,051 tokens, 26.15% of the tokens in OpenRouter’s named daily rows. Source: OpenRouter rankings (CC BY 4.0), 2026-09-17 to 2026-10-16.
Top 50 models by tokens on 2026-10-16
| Rank | Model | Tokens (UTC day) | Share of named rows | Change vs 2026-10-09 | Standard price (in / out) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek | 5,413,760,580,051 | 26.15% | −4.2% | $0.09 / $0.18 |
| 2 | GLM 5.3 FlashZ.ai (Zhipu) | 1,737,946,577,166 | 8.39% | −13.5% | $0.075 / $0.25 |
| 3 | MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomi | 1,441,946,219,662 | 6.96% | −18.1% | $0.10 / $0.28 |
| 4 | Hy4 previewTencent | 1,242,284,978,846 | 6.00% | −2.2% | $0.834 / $2.50 |
| 5 | GPT-6 LunaOpenAI | 988,368,486,336 | 4.77% | −21.4% | $0.10 / $0.50 |
| 6 | GLM 5.3Z.ai (Zhipu) | 942,629,869,132 | 4.55% | +72.6% | $0.50 / $1.51 |
| 7 | Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic | 933,379,863,866 | 4.50% | +12.4% | $4.00 / $20.00 |
| 8 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731DeepSeek | 620,600,893,373 | 2.99% | −8.8% | $0.0598 / $0.1795 |
| 9 | Hy3Tencent | 477,687,268,488 | 2.30% | −1.9% | $0.132 / $0.528 |
| 10 | Muse Spark 1.3 ContributorMeta | 459,170,784,960 | 2.21% | +13.1% | $0.10 / $0.20 |
| 11 | typesafe/jev-1.13-20260917No current SF·SIX profile | 444,016,472,257 | 2.14% | −6.4% | Not reported |
| 12 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423DeepSeek | 423,239,233,394 | 2.04% | −2.9% | $0.0181 / $0.0361 |
| 13 | Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic | 396,500,140,033 | 1.91% | +8.3% | $2.00 / $10.00 |
| 14 | Qwen3.6 35B A3BQwen (Alibaba) | 386,146,523,852 | 1.86% | Not in named rows | $0.05 / $0.70 |
| 15 | Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic | 302,611,417,731 | 1.46% | +9.2% | $0.10 / $0.50 |
| 16 | GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI | 293,839,776,017 | 1.41% | −35.7% | $2.00 / $10.00 |
| 17 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VLNVIDIA | 287,588,000,719 | 1.38% | Not in named rows | $0.10 / $0.40 |
| 18 | Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle DeepMind | 261,288,302,531 | 1.26% | −15.6% | $0.75 / $3.75 |
| 19 | GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI | 242,101,407,119 | 1.16% | −19.0% | $0.20 / $1.20 |
| 20 | MiniMax M3MiniMax | 210,130,855,533 | 1.01% | +0.6% | $0.23 / $0.96 |
| 21 | MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi | 209,342,906,369 | 1.01% | +7.2% | $0.43 / $0.87 |
| 22 | Kimi K3Moonshot AI | 203,418,976,604 | 0.98% | −39.9% | $0.504 / $8.10 |
| 23 | Step 5 PreviewStepFun | 179,047,849,184 | 0.86% | −93.1% | $1.00 / $2.70 |
| 24 | Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle DeepMind | 169,137,887,743 | 0.81% | Not in named rows | $2.00 / $10.00 |
| 25 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813DeepSeek | 161,086,111,445 | 0.77% | −2.9% | $0.1333 / $0.40 |
| 26 | Solar Mini 4Upstage | 146,492,744,373 | 0.70% | −9.4% | $0.05 / $0.20 |
| 27 | Laguna S 2.1Poolside | 141,195,114,863 | 0.68% | −5.4% | $0.09 / $0.18 |
| 28 | GLM 5.2Z.ai (Zhipu) | 140,872,637,745 | 0.68% | −23.3% | $0.189 / $0.594 |
| 29 | typesafe/jev-1.14-20261014No current SF·SIX profile | 132,038,250,228 | 0.63% | Not in named rows | Not reported |
| 30 | Dots3-Note Preview (free)Dots Studio | 107,768,862,523 | 0.52% | −16.5% | Not reported |
| 31 | Nemotron 3 SuperNVIDIA | 105,189,455,164 | 0.50% | +7.2% | $0.085 / $0.40 |
| 32 | Gemini 2.5 Flash LiteGoogle DeepMind | 102,547,886,475 | 0.49% | +12.6% | $0.10 / $0.40 |
| 33 | Solar Pro 4Upstage | 100,310,932,323 | 0.48% | −33.3% | $0.09 / $0.36 |
| 34 | Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle DeepMind | 97,900,539,817 | 0.47% | −47.6% | $0.50 / $3.00 |
| 35 | Nemotron 3.5 LightningNVIDIA | 90,070,351,605 | 0.43% | −32.7% | $0.025 / $0.12 |
| 36 | Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic | 87,165,052,246 | 0.42% | −23.4% | $2.00 / $10.00 |
| 37 | gpt-oss-120bOpenAI | 86,234,339,891 | 0.41% | +29.6% | $0.03 / $0.15 |
| 38 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423DeepSeek | 85,513,777,671 | 0.41% | −10.6% | $0.1775 / $0.3549 |
| 39 | Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA | 83,116,025,613 | 0.40% | −91.8% | $0.50 / $2.20 |
| 40 | Claude Opus 5Anthropic | 82,773,927,330 | 0.39% | −38.3% | $5.00 / $25.00 |
| 41 | Qwen3.8 FlashQwen (Alibaba) | 81,751,732,337 | 0.39% | +45.4% | $0.15 / $0.47 |
| 42 | MiMo-V2.5Xiaomi | 79,129,337,965 | 0.38% | −2.9% | $0.40 / $2.00 |
| 43 | Gemma 4 31BGoogle DeepMind | 73,136,257,496 | 0.35% | +3.9% | $0.10 / $0.34 |
| 44 | Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteGoogle DeepMind | 73,075,833,012 | 0.35% | +1.2% | $0.25 / $1.50 |
| 45 | GPT-6 SolOpenAI | 65,258,179,736 | 0.31% | −50.8% | $2.00 / $10.00 |
| 46 | GPT-6 Luna ProOpenAI | 62,484,200,421 | 0.30% | Not in named rows | $0.10 / $0.50 |
| 47 | Qwen3.8 27BQwen (Alibaba) | 62,195,100,356 | 0.30% | Not in named rows | $0.039 / $1.25 |
| 48 | GPT-6 AstraOpenAI | 61,764,770,432 | 0.29% | −37.3% | $10.00 / $50.00 |
| 49 | GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI | 61,750,982,189 | 0.29% | −45.7% | $4.00 / $20.00 |
| 50 | Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle DeepMind | 60,275,406,948 | 0.29% | −9.1% | $0.75 / $3.75 |
Share by developer
| Developer | Tokens (UTC day) | Share of named rows |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek | 6,704,200,595,934 | 32.39% |
| Z.ai (Zhipu) | 2,821,449,084,043 | 13.63% |
| OpenAI | 1,861,802,142,141 | 8.99% |
| Anthropic | 1,802,430,401,206 | 8.70% |
| Xiaomi | 1,730,418,463,996 | 8.36% |
| Tencent | 1,719,972,247,334 | 8.31% |
| Google DeepMind | 837,362,114,022 | 4.04% |
| typesafe | 576,054,722,485 | 2.78% |
| NVIDIA | 565,963,833,101 | 2.73% |
| Qwen (Alibaba) | 530,093,356,545 | 2.56% |
Sum of each developer’s models in the named rows of the day.
Scope and method
Tokens routed through OpenRouter only, not global usage of these models: direct API traffic to each lab and other gateways is not included. OpenRouter publishes named rows for the most-used models each day; models outside them are not zero, they are unknown. Batch and other routing variants are counted with their base model. The same data feeds the NATDAQ usage indexes (index method there) and the usage ladders of the AI prediction markets.