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AI model usage rankings - September 9, 2026

As published on September 9, 2026, Tencent: Hy4 preview led real OpenRouter usage share at 18.1%. Meta: Muse Spark 1.3, NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free), Nex AGI: Nex-N2.5-Pro (free), Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash entered the leaderboard for the first time. Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (batch) moved 9 places down since September 8, 2026.

  1. #1 Tencent: Hy4 preview - 18.1% usage share
  2. #2 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 - 12.6% usage share
  3. #3 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) - 10.9% usage share
  4. #4 OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch) - 7.1% usage share
  5. #5 Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5 - 7.0% usage share
  6. #6 Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch) - 3.6% usage share
  7. #7 Tencent: Hy3 - 3.2% usage share
  8. #8 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) - 2.7% usage share
  9. #9 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 - 2.0% usage share
  10. #10 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch) - 2.0% usage share
Change since September 8, 2026
#ModelUsage shareRank change
01Tencent: Hy4 preview18.1%no change
02DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 042312.6%no change
03Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)10.9%+1 (+1.4pts)
04OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)7.1%-1 (-3.5pts)
05Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.57.0%no change
06Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)3.6%+1 (+0.7pts)
07Tencent: Hy33.2%-1 (+0.2pts)
08NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)2.7%no change
09DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 04232.0%+2 (+0.2pts)
10Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch)2.0%-1 (-0.3pts)
11Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor1.8%+1 (+0.1pts)
12OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)1.5%+1 (+0.1pts)
13MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)1.4%+1 (+0.1pts)
14Z.ai: GLM 5.2 (free)1.4%-4 (-0.4pts)
15Upstage: Solar Pro 41.3%+1 (+0.1pts)
16Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)1.2%+2 (+0.1pts)
17MiniMax: MiniMax M31.2%no change
18Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch)0.9%-3 (-0.3pts)
19Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free)0.9%+1 (0pts)
20Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch)0.8%+2 (+0.2pts)
21inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free)0.7%no change
22Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)0.7%+3 (+0.1pts)
23Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch)0.7%+1 (+0.1pts)
24OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra (batch)0.7%-1 (0pts)
25NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)0.7%+1 (+0.1pts)
26Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 New0.6%-
27OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra (batch)0.5%no change
28Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (batch)0.5%-9 (-0.4pts)
29OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b0.5%+1 (+0.1pts)
30DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp0.4%-1 (0pts)
31Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch)0.4%no change
32Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)0.4%-4 (-0.1pts)
33Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)0.4%+6 (+0.1pts)
34Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max0.4%+1 (+0.1pts)
35OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch)0.4%+1 (+0.1pts)
36DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.20.4%-3 (0pts)
37SpaceXAI: Grok 4.60.3%-5 (0pts)
38Thinking Machines: Inkling (free)0.3%-4 (0pts)
39NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free) New0.3%-
40Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)0.3%-3 (0pts)
41Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 (batch)0.3%-3 (0pts)
42Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)0.3%no change
43Nex AGI: Nex-N2.5-Pro (free) New0.2%-
44OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b (batch)0.2%-3 (0pts)
45Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch)0.2%-5 (0pts)
46Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash New0.2%-

This page is a permanent, unchanging record of real OpenRouter usage share as it stood on September 9, 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 9, 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.