opus 5 re-enters openrouter top 10 at #8 – up 61% in a week

openrouter top 5 by token volume this week:

1. deepseek v4 flash – 11.4t
2. tencent hy3 – 9.22t
3. xiaomi mimo-v2.5 – 6.92t
4. gpt-5.6 luna – 5.6t
5. deepseek v4 flash 0423 – 5.06t

pricing across the top 5: $0.065 to $0.20 per million input tokens. mimo-v2.5 jumped from #5 to #3 after xiaomi's price cut – now $0.12/m input.

nvidia nemotron 3 ultra (free) surged +94% to #7. claude opus 5 at $5/m is 25-75x pricier than everything above it – and still growing.

the volume leaderboard runs on cheap inference. but the premium tier is quietly climbing back.