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AI model usage rankings - September 24, 2026

As published on September 24, 2026, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) led real OpenRouter usage share at 12.6%. Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (batch), Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free), DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 entered the leaderboard for the first time. Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 (batch) moved 13 places up since September 23, 2026.

  1. #1 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) - 12.6% usage share
  2. #2 Space Bunny Alpha - 12.1% usage share
  3. #3 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) - 9.0% usage share
  4. #4 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 - 7.5% usage share
  5. #5 Tencent: Hy4 preview - 6.1% usage share
  6. #6 OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch) - 5.3% usage share
  7. #7 Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash - 5.1% usage share
  8. #8 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) - 2.9% usage share
  9. #9 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch) - 2.9% usage share
  10. #10 OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch) - 2.5% usage share
Change since September 23, 2026
#ModelUsage shareRank change
01DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch)12.6%no change
02Space Bunny Alpha12.1%+12 (+10.7pts)
03Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)9.0%-1 (-3.2pts)
04DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 04237.5%-1 (-1.1pts)
05Tencent: Hy4 preview6.1%-1 (-2.1pts)
06OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)5.3%-1 (-0.9pts)
07Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash5.1%-1 (+2.2pts)
08NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)2.9%-1 (+0.4pts)
09Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch)2.9%no change
10OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch)2.5%no change
11Tencent: Hy31.9%-3 (-0.4pts)
12Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)1.4%+1 (-0.1pts)
13DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 04231.2%+2 (-0.2pts)
14Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)1.1%+4 (-0.2pts)
15Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.51.1%-3 (-0.6pts)
16Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor1.1%+1 (-0.2pts)
17Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch)1.0%+4 (0pts)
18Z.ai: GLM 5.21.0%-2 (-0.3pts)
19Upstage: Solar Pro 41.0%no change
20MiniMax: MiniMax M31.0%no change
21OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)1.0%-10 (-0.9pts)
22MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)0.9%no change
23OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol (batch)0.9%+5 (+0.2pts)
24Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Pro0.8%+1 (0pts)
25inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Fin0.8%-2 (-0.1pts)
26Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free)0.7%no change
27Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch)0.6%no change
28OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra (batch)0.6%-4 (-0.2pts)
29Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch)0.5%no change
30OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (batch)0.5%+2 (0pts)
31Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 (batch)0.5%+13 (+0.2pts)
32Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)0.5%-1 (0pts)
33Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)0.4%+1 (0pts)
34OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra (batch)0.4%-1 (-0.1pts)
35Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash0.3%+1 (0pts)
36Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch)0.3%-1 (-0.1pts)
37NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)0.3%+2 (0pts)
38Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch)0.3%-1 (-0.1pts)
39Meta: Muse Spark 1.30.3%-9 (-0.2pts)
40Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash0.3%-2 (0pts)
41Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B0.3%-1 (0pts)
42Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)0.3%no change
43OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro (batch)0.2%+2 (0pts)
44Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (batch) New0.2%-
45Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) New0.2%-
46DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 New0.2%-

This page is a permanent, unchanging record of real OpenRouter usage share as it stood on September 24, 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 24, 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.