The OpenRouter usage stats indicate the opposite: https://openrouter.ai/rankings?view=month

OpenRouter usage is likely skewed towards LLMs that are more niche and/or self-hostable by solid hardware that's available, but most consumers don't have on hand. I can imagine Anthropic and OpenAI LLMs often get called directly from their APIs instead.

At least from my experience and friends of mine, we use OpenRouter for cases where we want to use smaller LLMs like Qwen, but when I've used ChatGPT and Claude, I use those APIs directly.

	▲	elbear 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I use ChatGPT and Claude on OpenRouter, because it's just easier than buying credits on each platform separately.
	▲	senordevnyc 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Same, and my little SaaS is pushing more than 0.1% of the TOTAL volume of tokens on OpenRouter, so the reality is they’re TINY.

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vorticalbox 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

what happened around jan this year(26) that caused such a climb in usage?

	▲	wcallahan 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Openclaw