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chinese models own openrouter's top 5. two are free – one promo ends today

pulse Comic-style man holding a giant hourglass marked JUL 21 draining glowing tokens, symbolizing a free AI model promo ending.


hy3 doubled its token volume in a week. the free promo ends today. mimo-v2.5 – up 43% at $0.105/m with no discount at all

weekly openrouter top 5 by token volume:

1. tencent hy3 (free) – 11.8t
2. xiaomi mimo-v2.5 – 9.37t
3. deepseek v4 flash – 5.34t
4. z-ai glm 5.2 – 3.57t
5. minimax m3 – 3.46t

all five chinese. hy3 is free through july 21 – after that, $0.132/m input. mimo-v2.5 grew 43% at $0.105/m. together they account for nearly half of all top-10 volume.

anthropic now holds three slots in the top 10 – opus 4.7, opus 4.8, sonnet 5.

the pattern: free models are pulling away at the top, and anthropic is quietly stacking the back half of the board.

Ranking table of top 10 AI models by token usage on OpenRouter, led by tencent hy3, xiaomi mimo-v2.5 and deepseek, with growth rates.

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