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AI model usage rankings - August 20, 2026

As published on August 20, 2026, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 led real OpenRouter usage share at 22.1%. Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B entered the leaderboard for the first time. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 (batch) moved 19 places up since August 19, 2026.

  1. #1 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 - 22.1% usage share
  2. #2 Tencent: Hy3 - 10.3% usage share
  3. #3 Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5 - 10.1% usage share
  4. #4 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) - 6.0% usage share
  5. #5 OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch) - 5.4% usage share
  6. #6 Z.ai: GLM 5.2 (free) - 4.4% usage share
  7. #7 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 - 3.0% usage share
  8. #8 Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch) - 2.2% usage share
  9. #9 MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (free) - 2.0% usage share
  10. #10 Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free) - 2.0% usage share
Change since August 19, 2026
#ModelUsage shareRank change
01DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 042322.1%no change
02Tencent: Hy310.3%no change
03Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.510.1%no change
04NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)6.0%+1 (0pts)
05OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)5.4%-1 (-1.2pts)
06Z.ai: GLM 5.2 (free)4.4%no change
07DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 04233.0%no change
08Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch)2.2%+1 (-0.1pts)
09MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (free)2.0%-1 (-0.6pts)
10Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free)2.0%no change
11OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)1.9%+1 (-0.1pts)
12Claude Opus 5 (batch)1.7%-1 (-0.3pts)
13MoonshotAI: Kimi K31.7%no change
14Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)1.5%no change
15NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)1.0%+1 (0pts)
16Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch)1.0%-1 (-0.2pts)
17Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (batch)1.0%no change
18Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)0.9%+1 (0pts)
19Z.ai: GLM 5.30.9%+12 (+0.3pts)
20OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra (batch)0.9%-2 (-0.1pts)
21Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)0.8%+11 (+0.3pts)
22Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 (batch)0.8%+19 (+0.5pts)
23Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5-Pro0.8%-3 (0pts)
24OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b0.7%+5 (+0.1pts)
25Upstage: Solar Pro 40.7%-4 (0pts)
26Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)0.7%+7 (+0.2pts)
27SpaceXAI: Grok 4.60.6%-1 (0pts)
28Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch)0.6%-5 (0pts)
29StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash0.6%-4 (0pts)
30Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)0.5%-6 (-0.1pts)
31NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free)0.5%-3 (-0.1pts)
32Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)0.5%-2 (0pts)
33DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.20.5%+1 (0pts)
34Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max0.5%+3 (+0.1pts)
35OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch)0.4%-8 (-0.2pts)
36Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)0.4%-1 (0pts)
37Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 (batch)0.4%+1 (0pts)
38Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (batch)0.4%-16 (-0.3pts)
39OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini (batch)0.3%+8 (+0.1pts)
40Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch)0.3%-1 (0pts)
41OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (batch)0.3%-1 (0pts)
42OpenAI: GPT-5.5 (batch)0.3%-6 (-0.1pts)
43MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7 (free)0.3%no change
44Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash0.3%no change
45Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B New0.2%-
46Mistral: Mistral Nemo0.2%no change
47OpenAI: GPT-5.4 (batch)0.2%-2 (0pts)

This page is a permanent, unchanging record of real OpenRouter usage share as it stood on August 20, 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 20, 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.