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AI model usage rankings - August 30, 2026

As published on August 30, 2026, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 led real OpenRouter usage share at 15.9%. OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (batch) entered the leaderboard for the first time. Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max moved 11 places down since August 29, 2026.

  1. #1 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 - 15.9% usage share
  2. #2 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) - 11.5% usage share
  3. #3 OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch) - 10.7% usage share
  4. #4 Tencent: Hy4 preview - 8.7% usage share
  5. #5 MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (batch) - 7.1% usage share
  6. #6 Tencent: Hy3 - 5.6% usage share
  7. #7 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) - 4.0% usage share
  8. #8 Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5 - 4.0% usage share
  9. #9 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 - 2.6% usage share
  10. #10 Z.ai: GLM 5.2 (batch) - 2.0% usage share
Change since August 29, 2026
#ModelUsage shareRank change
01DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 042315.9%no change
02Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)11.5%+1 (+1.5pts)
03OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)10.7%+1 (+2.2pts)
04Tencent: Hy4 preview8.7%-2 (-2.9pts)
05MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (batch)7.1%no change
06Tencent: Hy35.6%+1 (+0.3pts)
07NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)4.0%-1 (-1.8pts)
08Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.54.0%no change
09DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 04232.6%no change
10Z.ai: GLM 5.2 (batch)2.0%+1 (-0.1pts)
11Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch)2.0%-1 (-0.6pts)
12MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)1.7%+2 (+0.4pts)
13Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch)1.4%-1 (0pts)
14Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free)1.4%-1 (0pts)
15NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)1.4%no change
16Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)1.2%+2 (+0.2pts)
17OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)1.1%-1 (0pts)
18Claude Opus 5 (batch)1.0%-1 (0pts)
19Upstage: Solar Pro 40.9%+1 (+0.1pts)
20Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)0.9%-1 (-0.1pts)
21Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch)0.7%no change
22Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (batch)0.7%no change
23inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free)0.7%no change
24OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b (batch)0.5%no change
25MiniMax: MiniMax M2.70.5%+1 (0pts)
26DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.20.5%+1 (0pts)
27NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free)0.5%-2 (0pts)
28StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash0.4%+1 (0pts)
29Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch)0.4%+3 (0pts)
30Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)0.4%no change
31OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra (batch)0.4%-3 (-0.1pts)
32Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)0.3%-1 (0pts)
33SpaceXAI: Grok 4.60.3%+4 (0pts)
34Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)0.3%no change
35Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor0.3%+6 (0pts)
36OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch)0.3%+2 (0pts)
37OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (batch)0.3%+3 (0pts)
38Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5-Pro0.3%-2 (0pts)
39Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)0.3%no change
40Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (batch)0.3%-7 (-0.1pts)
41Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash0.2%+3 (0pts)
42Thinking Machines: Inkling (free)0.2%no change
43DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (batch)0.2%+2 (0pts)
44Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch)0.2%-1 (0pts)
45OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (batch) New0.2%-
46Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max0.2%-11 (-0.1pts)
47Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash0.2%-1 (0pts)

This page is a permanent, unchanging record of real OpenRouter usage share as it stood on August 30, 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 30, 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.