I'm a fan of some chinese models, but I keep seeing this repeated over and over using OpenRouter as the source. However, most users of Claude and OpenAI don't use those APIs over OpenRouter, so that's not sufficient to draw the conclusion that they're the top models.

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miyuru 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>most users of Claude and OpenAI don't use those APIs over OpenRouter

All of the other providers in that list have their own APIs and plans too

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nickysielicki 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Unless GCP/Azure/AWS/individual companies publish data themselves, this is the best available public data source we have.

	▲	m_w_ 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Best available does not mean “not actively misleading”, which it obviously is. OpenRouter is not remotely close to a representative source for inference distribution.
	▲	namenotrequired 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Sure, but the statement you made is way stronger (more general) than the one the data shows.
	▲	qwerpy 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		"Best available public data source" isn't a good reason to insist on using irrelevant data to draw conclusions like "top 5 models by token consumption are Chinese/open models".
	▲	miyuru 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		another source is opencode and they have geographic breakdown. https://opencode.ai/data/