OpenRouter hits 2T tokens a day as DeepSeek v4.1 traffic surges 10x overnight
stuffyokodraws · x · 2026-10-06
DeepSeek v4.1 traffic on OpenRouter surged over 10x in a single day, pushing the platform to a new record of 2T tokens served daily. @relaceai notes the platform went from 1T to 2T tokens/day in roughly two weeks, with EBorgnia calling demand for these Flash-class models 'mind boggling' — a sign of explosive inference demand for low-cost open-weight models.
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