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AI model usage rankings - September 19, 2026

As published on September 19, 2026, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) led real OpenRouter usage share at 17.2%. Mistral: Mistral Nemo, Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free), inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Sante entered the leaderboard for the first time. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) moved 11 places down since September 18, 2026.

  1. #1 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) - 17.2% usage share
  2. #2 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) - 15.1% usage share
  3. #3 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 - 11.1% usage share
  4. #4 Tencent: Hy4 preview - 7.9% usage share
  5. #5 OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch) - 6.3% usage share
  6. #6 Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5 - 4.7% usage share
  7. #7 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) - 4.5% usage share
  8. #8 Tencent: Hy3 - 2.7% usage share
  9. #9 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch) - 2.1% usage share
  10. #10 Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor - 1.7% usage share
Change since September 18, 2026
#ModelUsage shareRank change
01DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch)17.2%no change
02Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)15.1%+2 (+5.1pts)
03DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 042311.1%-1 (-1.3pts)
04Tencent: Hy4 preview7.9%-1 (-2.5pts)
05OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)6.3%no change
06Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.54.7%no change
07NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)4.5%no change
08Tencent: Hy32.7%no change
09Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch)2.1%no change
10Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor1.7%+1 (-0.1pts)
11DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 04231.6%+1 (+0.1pts)
12Upstage: Solar Pro 41.4%+4 (+0.2pts)
13Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)1.3%no change
14Z.ai: GLM 5.21.1%+1 (-0.1pts)
15MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)1.1%+3 (-0.1pts)
16MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (batch)1.0%+3 (-0.1pts)
17Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free)1.0%+4 (+0.1pts)
18inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Fin0.8%+4 (0pts)
19OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)0.8%-9 (-0.9pts)
20OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra (batch)0.8%-6 (-0.5pts)
21Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)0.7%-4 (-0.5pts)
22Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch)0.6%-2 (-0.3pts)
23Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite0.6%+3 (+0.1pts)
24Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch)0.5%-1 (-0.1pts)
25inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL0.5%no change
26Nex AGI: Nex-N2.5-Pro0.4%+4 (0pts)
27NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)0.4%-3 (-0.2pts)
28Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch)0.4%+1 (-0.1pts)
29Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max0.4%-2 (-0.1pts)
30Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 (batch)0.4%+4 (0pts)
31Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash0.3%+6 (0pts)
32Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash0.3%no change
33Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash0.3%+3 (0pts)
34OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra (batch)0.3%-6 (-0.1pts)
35OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (batch)0.3%no change
36DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.20.3%+5 (0pts)
37Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)0.3%-6 (-0.1pts)
38Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (batch)0.3%+1 (0pts)
39Mistral: Mistral Nemo New0.3%-
40Thinking Machines: Inkling0.3%+3 (0pts)
41NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super0.3%+1 (0pts)
42Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)0.2%-4 (0pts)
43Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) New0.2%-
44Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)0.2%-11 (-0.2pts)
45inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Sante New0.2%-

This page is a permanent, unchanging record of real OpenRouter usage share as it stood on September 19, 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 19, 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.