DeepSeek Serves Only ~17% of Its Own Tokens, OpenRouter Data Shows

OpenRouter data shows DeepSeek's official API serves only about 17% of tokens for its own models, with third-party providers like Novita (11.04%) and 19 others each holding at least 1%, revealing a highly distributed inference ecosystem.

2026-11-04 ~ 2026-11-05 · 2 related posts

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