DeepSeek Held #1 on OpenRouter 23 of 25 Weeks, Now 32% of Tokens
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-03
DeepSeek ranked #1 on OpenRouter by token volume in 23 of the last 25 weeks, with total tokens up 1300% since May 11. Weekly OpenRouter volume grew from 27T to 188T tokens. Lab share charts show DeepSeek at 15.9% in May (barely ahead of Anthropic's 15.5%) rising to 32.1% by Oct 19, ahead of Z.ai (10.4%), OpenAI (9.1%) and Anthropic (8.6%). The author expects V4.1F updates, open-sourced infra and the permissive license to entrench this dominance.
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