OpenRouter's two leaderboards diverge: GPT-6 Astra tops spending while GPT-5.6 Luna dominates token usage
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-09-16
Last week on OpenRouter, the top spender and the top token consumer were different models: GPT-6 Astra led in money spent, while GPT-5.6 Luna consumed far more tokens than anything else. The split highlights how premium-priced models and high-throughput models serve distinct real-world usage patterns.
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