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AI model usage rankings - September 1, 2026

As published on September 1, 2026, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 led real OpenRouter usage share at 15.0%. Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B entered the leaderboard for the first time. Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor moved 7 places up since August 31, 2026.

  1. #1 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 - 15.0% usage share
  2. #2 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) - 11.6% usage share
  3. #3 OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch) - 10.9% usage share
  4. #4 Tencent: Hy4 preview - 10.6% usage share
  5. #5 MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (batch) - 6.4% usage share
  6. #6 Tencent: Hy3 - 3.2% usage share
  7. #7 Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5 - 3.2% usage share
  8. #8 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) - 3.0% usage share
  9. #9 Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch) - 2.7% usage share
  10. #10 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 - 2.3% usage share
Change since August 31, 2026
#ModelUsage shareRank change
01DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 042315.0%no change
02Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)11.6%no change
03OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)10.9%no change
04Tencent: Hy4 preview10.6%no change
05MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (batch)6.4%+1 (+1.8pts)
06Tencent: Hy33.2%-1 (-2.6pts)
07Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.53.2%no change
08NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)3.0%no change
09Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch)2.7%+1 (+0.5pts)
10DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 04232.3%-1 (-0.3pts)
11OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)2.1%+3 (+0.5pts)
12Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch)2.1%no change
13Z.ai: GLM 5.2 (batch)1.9%-2 (-0.2pts)
14MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)1.9%-1 (+0.2pts)
15Claude Opus 5 (batch)1.4%no change
16Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)1.3%no change
17Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free)1.3%no change
18Upstage: Solar Pro 41.0%no change
19NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)0.9%no change
20Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch)0.9%no change
21inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free)0.7%+2 (0pts)
22Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (batch)0.7%-1 (-0.1pts)
23Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)0.6%-1 (-0.2pts)
24OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra (batch)0.6%no change
25OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (batch)0.6%+5 (+0.1pts)
26StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash0.5%+1 (0pts)
27Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch)0.5%-1 (0pts)
28MiniMax: MiniMax M2.70.5%+6 (+0.1pts)
29Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)0.4%no change
30OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b (batch)0.4%-5 (-0.1pts)
31DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.20.4%-3 (-0.1pts)
32Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)0.4%-1 (-0.1pts)
33OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch)0.4%no change
34SpaceXAI: Grok 4.60.3%-2 (-0.1pts)
35Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)0.3%+1 (0pts)
36Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)0.3%+1 (0pts)
37DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (batch)0.3%+4 (0pts)
38Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor0.3%+7 (+0.1pts)
39Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5-Pro0.3%-4 (-0.1pts)
40Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch)0.3%-1 (0pts)
41Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max0.2%+5 (0pts)
42Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 (batch)0.2%-4 (0pts)
43OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (batch)0.2%-1 (0pts)
44Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B New0.2%-
45Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)0.2%-5 (0pts)
46Thinking Machines: Inkling (free)0.2%-2 (0pts)
47Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (batch)0.2%no change

This page is a permanent, unchanging record of real OpenRouter usage share as it stood on September 1, 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 September 1, 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.