OpenAI Overtakes Anthropic on OpenRouter Spending for First Time in 2.5 Years

rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-17

OpenRouter reported that users spent more on OpenAI models than Anthropic models last week — the first time in over 2.5 years. Based on real paid usage on the third-party API aggregator, it's a hard market-share signal, likely reflecting pull from OpenAI's recent model releases.

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