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AI model usage rankings - August 29, 2026

As published on August 29, 2026, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 led real OpenRouter usage share at 15.4%. NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free), Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash, Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash entered the leaderboard for the first time. inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free) moved 17 places up since August 28, 2026.

  1. #1 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 - 15.4% usage share
  2. #2 Tencent: Hy4 preview - 11.7% usage share
  3. #3 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) - 10.0% usage share
  4. #4 OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch) - 8.5% usage share
  5. #5 MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (batch) - 6.7% usage share
  6. #6 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) - 5.9% usage share
  7. #7 Tencent: Hy3 - 5.3% usage share
  8. #8 Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5 - 4.0% usage share
  9. #9 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 - 2.7% usage share
  10. #10 Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch) - 2.6% usage share
Change since August 28, 2026
#ModelUsage shareRank change
01DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 042315.4%no change
02Tencent: Hy4 preview11.7%+7 (+9.2pts)
03Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)10.0%+1 (-0.3pts)
04OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)8.5%-2 (-2.7pts)
05MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (batch)6.7%+1 (+1.4pts)
06NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)5.9%+1 (+0.9pts)
07Tencent: Hy35.3%-2 (-1.1pts)
08Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.54.0%-5 (-6.4pts)
09DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 04232.7%-1 (+0.1pts)
10Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch)2.6%no change
11Z.ai: GLM 5.2 (batch)2.1%no change
12Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch)1.4%+3 (0pts)
13Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free)1.4%+4 (+0.1pts)
14MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)1.3%-1 (-0.2pts)
15NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free) New1.2%-
16OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)1.1%-4 (-0.6pts)
17Claude Opus 5 (batch)1.0%-3 (-0.4pts)
18Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)1.0%no change
19Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)0.9%-3 (-0.4pts)
20Upstage: Solar Pro 40.7%+1 (+0.1pts)
21Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch)0.7%-2 (0pts)
22Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (batch)0.7%-2 (0pts)
23inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free)0.6%+17 (+0.3pts)
24OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b (batch)0.5%+3 (+0.1pts)
25NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free)0.5%-1 (0pts)
26MiniMax: MiniMax M2.70.4%+11 (+0.1pts)
27DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.20.4%+5 (+0.1pts)
28OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra (batch)0.4%-6 (-0.1pts)
29StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash0.4%+2 (0pts)
30Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)0.4%no change
31Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)0.4%-3 (0pts)
32Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch)0.4%-3 (0pts)
33Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (batch)0.3%+3 (0pts)
34Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)0.3%+1 (0pts)
35Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max0.3%+4 (0pts)
36Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5-Pro0.3%-2 (-0.1pts)
37SpaceXAI: Grok 4.60.3%-11 (-0.2pts)
38OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch)0.3%-5 (-0.1pts)
39Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)0.3%+2 (0pts)
40OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (batch)0.3%-17 (-0.2pts)
41Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor0.3%+2 (0pts)
42Thinking Machines: Inkling (free)0.2%no change
43Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch)0.2%+1 (0pts)
44Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash New0.2%-
45DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (batch)0.2%+2 (0pts)
46Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash New0.2%-

This page is a permanent, unchanging record of real OpenRouter usage share as it stood on August 29, 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 29, 2026.

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

Methodology: www.smophy.ai/benchmark/methodology

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