OpenRouter Weekly

Week 43, Oct 19 to 25, 2026

Open-weight models now carry 75% of tokens on OpenRouter

Who's winning the AI model race on OpenRouter, in charts. Updated every Monday.

Open-weight share75%no change vs last week
of tokens to disclosed models
Top named labDeepSeek34%+3.9 pts vs last week
share of tokens
Chinese labs70%+0.9 pts vs last week
share of tokens
Budget models70%+8.2 pts vs last week
under $0.50 per million tokens

Open v closed weights, weekly share of tokens

The week in brief

That's unchanged since last week. Open-weight models passed 50% in the week of Apr 27 and have stayed above it since. The peak in the last 52 weeks was 77%.

What's driving it: DeepSeek, Z.ai and MiniMax lead the open-weight models this week.

Worth knowing: stealth models (unreleased models tested under code names) were 0% of tokens last week. They're left out of this split until their makers are revealed.

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Who's winning

Labs and countries ranked by share of tokens, and how the race has moved over the past year.

Models and launches

Model families rather than labs, how fast new models take off, and how big the open-weight models are.

Cost and usage

What the tokens cost, what people use them for, what goes in, and whether they're free.

How it's made

  • Data: OpenRouter's public daily rankings (top 50 models per day plus an 'other' row), its model catalog and its weekly task classification. Public traffic only; private and zero-data-retention traffic is excluded, and apps like ChatGPT aren't in it.
  • Weeks run Monday to Sunday (UTC). Charts cover the last 52 complete weeks.
  • Every model is labeled from a hand-checked registry (company, open or closed weights, country, family, price tier and more), and every label has a source.
  • Stealth models are unreleased models tested under code names. Their makers are undisclosed, so they're left out of open-vs-closed and similar splits; the footers say how big they are.
  • Providers count tokens differently, so the charts compare shares and trends, not exact totals.

Get the data

The numbers behind every chart for Oct 19 to 25, 2026.

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