Practice
Where the AI tokens go
OpenRouter sits between developers and hundreds of AI models, and it publishes what flows through it. I charted 22 months of it: which models win, which apps use the most, and what people ask AI to do. Eight charts, every number sourced.
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My own practice work. Not made with, or for, OpenRouter. All figures are from their public pages, linked on each chart.
Caveats: OpenRouter is one slice of the market. People who pay Anthropic, OpenAI or Google directly don’t show up here, and OpenRouter attracts developers who shop around on price. So read every chart as “what developers on OpenRouter use”, not the whole AI market. Daily data covers the top 50 models each day; the rest is grouped as “other”. The logo belongs to OpenRouter.