OpenAI overtakes Anthropic as #1 in estimated OpenRouter spend in September
maferase · reddit · 2026-10-15
Charts from Tidelines.ai based on OpenRouter data show OpenAI passed Anthropic in September to become the top lab by estimated daily spend. The dashboard tracks the 7-day-average share of estimated daily spend for the top 8 labs since January 2026, including DeepSeek, Z-Al, Moonshot, Google, Tencent and Nvidia; tracked models covered 69.6% of measured traffic on 2026-10-01, with the rest in an untracked band. A notable reshuffle of the OpenRouter spend landscape within a year.
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