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AI model usage rankings - August 18, 2026

As published on August 18, 2026, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 led real OpenRouter usage share at 19.5%. Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash, SpaceXAI: Grok 4.5 entered the leaderboard for the first time. Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (batch) moved 11 places up since August 17, 2026.

  1. #1 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 - 19.5% usage share
  2. #2 Tencent: Hy3 - 12.9% usage share
  3. #3 Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5 - 9.2% usage share
  4. #4 OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch) - 8.2% usage share
  5. #5 Z.ai: GLM 5.2 (free) - 4.4% usage share
  6. #6 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) - 4.0% usage share
  7. #7 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 - 3.7% usage share
  8. #8 MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (free) - 2.6% usage share
  9. #9 Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free) - 2.0% usage share
  10. #10 Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch) - 1.8% usage share
Change since August 17, 2026
#ModelUsage shareRank change
01DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 042319.5%no change
02Tencent: Hy312.9%+1 (+1.5pts)
03Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.59.2%-1 (-4.8pts)
04OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)8.2%no change
05Z.ai: GLM 5.2 (free)4.4%no change
06NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)4.0%+1 (+0.2pts)
07DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 04233.7%+1 (+0.1pts)
08MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (free)2.6%+2 (+0.7pts)
09Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free)2.0%+2 (+0.3pts)
10Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch)1.8%+2 (+0.4pts)
11Claude Opus 5 (batch)1.8%-2 (-0.2pts)
12OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)1.5%+3 (+0.3pts)
13MoonshotAI: Kimi K31.4%no change
14Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)1.4%no change
15Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)1.2%-9 (-2.8pts)
16Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch)1.1%+3 (+0.2pts)
17OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra (batch)1.1%-1 (0pts)
18NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)1.0%no change
19OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch)1.0%+8 (+0.4pts)
20Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)0.9%+2 (+0.1pts)
21Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 (batch)0.9%no change
22StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash0.8%-5 (-0.1pts)
23Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (batch)0.8%-3 (0pts)
24Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5-Pro0.7%+1 (+0.2pts)
25OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b0.7%-1 (+0.1pts)
26SpaceXAI: Grok 4.60.7%-3 (0pts)
27Upstage: Solar Pro 40.6%-1 (+0.1pts)
28OpenAI: GPT-5.5 (batch)0.6%no change
29Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)0.6%+2 (+0.1pts)
30NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free)0.5%+2 (+0.1pts)
31Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch)0.5%-1 (0pts)
32Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)0.5%-3 (0pts)
33DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.20.5%no change
34Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)0.5%no change
35Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)0.4%no change
36Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (batch)0.4%+11 (+0.2pts)
37Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 (batch)0.3%-1 (0pts)
38Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max0.3%-1 (0pts)
39Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch)0.3%-1 (+0.1pts)
40OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (batch)0.3%-1 (0pts)
41Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (batch)0.3%+5 (0pts)
42MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.60.3%+2 (0pts)
43OpenAI: GPT-5.4 (batch)0.3%-2 (0pts)
44MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7 (free)0.2%-1 (0pts)
45Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash New0.2%-
46Mistral: Mistral Nemo0.2%-4 (0pts)
47SpaceXAI: Grok 4.5 New0.2%-

This page is a permanent, unchanging record of real OpenRouter usage share as it stood on August 18, 2026. Later corrections to the data pipeline appear as new dated snapshots - this page's figures never change.

Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of August 18, 2026.

Benchmark scores: Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai) via OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings).

Methodology: www.smophy.ai/benchmark/methodology

Token counts originate from each provider's own tokenizer and are not directly comparable across providers.