OpenRouter token usage exploded from 3.73T to over 75T in one year
scaling01 · x · 2026-08-18
OpenRouter's token usage jumped from 3.73T to over 75T in a single year — roughly a 20x increase. As the go-to aggregator for cross-vendor model API calls, this metric is a direct proxy for the explosive growth in LLM inference demand over the past year.
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