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.

Addy Crezee