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AI model usage rankings - August 21, 2026

As published on August 21, 2026, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 led real OpenRouter usage share at 18.9%. Ox Alpha, MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 entered the leaderboard for the first time. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 (batch) moved 13 places down since August 20, 2026.

  1. #1 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 - 18.9% usage share
  2. #2 Ox Alpha - 14.3% usage share
  3. #3 Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5 - 12.4% usage share
  4. #4 Tencent: Hy3 - 8.1% usage share
  5. #5 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) - 4.9% usage share
  6. #6 OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch) - 4.0% usage share
  7. #7 Z.ai: GLM 5.2 (free) - 3.0% usage share
  8. #8 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 - 2.7% usage share
  9. #9 Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch) - 1.8% usage share
  10. #10 Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free) - 1.7% usage share
Change since August 20, 2026
#ModelUsage shareRank change
01DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 042318.9%no change
02Ox Alpha New14.3%-
03Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.512.4%no change
04Tencent: Hy38.1%-2 (-2.3pts)
05NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)4.9%-1 (-1.1pts)
06OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)4.0%-1 (-1.4pts)
07Z.ai: GLM 5.2 (free)3.0%-1 (-1.3pts)
08DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 04232.7%-1 (-0.3pts)
09Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch)1.8%-1 (-0.4pts)
10Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free)1.7%no change
11MoonshotAI: Kimi K31.5%+2 (-0.2pts)
12OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)1.5%-1 (-0.4pts)
13MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (free)1.4%-4 (-0.6pts)
14Claude Opus 5 (batch)1.4%-2 (-0.4pts)
15Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)1.2%-1 (-0.3pts)
16NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)1.2%-1 (+0.1pts)
17Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch)0.9%-1 (-0.1pts)
18Z.ai: GLM 5.30.8%+1 (-0.1pts)
19Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)0.7%-1 (-0.2pts)
20Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)0.7%+1 (-0.1pts)
21Upstage: Solar Pro 40.7%+4 (0pts)
22OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra (batch)0.7%-2 (-0.2pts)
23Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (batch)0.6%-6 (-0.4pts)
24Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max0.5%+10 (+0.1pts)
25Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5-Pro0.5%-2 (-0.2pts)
26SpaceXAI: Grok 4.60.5%+1 (-0.1pts)
27Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch)0.5%+1 (-0.1pts)
28OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b0.5%-4 (-0.2pts)
29Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)0.5%+1 (0pts)
30StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash0.5%-1 (-0.1pts)
31OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch)0.5%+4 (0pts)
32DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.20.4%+1 (-0.1pts)
33Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)0.4%-1 (-0.1pts)
34Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)0.4%-8 (-0.3pts)
35Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 (batch)0.3%-13 (-0.4pts)
36NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free)0.3%-5 (-0.2pts)
37Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)0.3%-1 (-0.1pts)
38OpenAI: GPT-5.5 (batch)0.3%+4 (0pts)
39Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 (batch)0.3%-2 (-0.1pts)
40OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini (batch)0.3%-1 (-0.1pts)
41OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (batch)0.2%no change
42Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch)0.2%-2 (-0.1pts)
43MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7 (free)0.2%no change
44Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (batch)0.2%-6 (-0.1pts)
45Mistral: Mistral Nemo0.2%+1 (0pts)
46MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 New0.2%-
47Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B0.2%-2 (0pts)

This page is a permanent, unchanging record of real OpenRouter usage share as it stood on August 21, 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 21, 2026.

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

Methodology: www.smophy.ai/benchmark/methodology

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