Addy Crezee
openrouter is basically chinese now. 9 of the top 10 models by token volume – one exception: claude opus 4.8, barely hanging on at #10
openrouter top 5 by token volume last week:
1. xiaomi mimo-v2.5 – 10.5t
2. deepseek v4 flash – 6.37t
3. tencent hy3 – 3.94t
4. z-ai glm 5.2 – 3.29t
5. deepseek v4 pro – 3.17t
all five chinese. pricing: $0.09 to $0.67 per million input tokens.
tencent hy3 went from free promo to the #3 most-used model on openrouter in one week with +999%.
the leaderboard is splitting – commodity models own the volume, frontier models still win on revenue per token. but every week the volume lane grows and the premium lane loses ground.
