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AI model usage rankings - September 26, 2026

As published on September 26, 2026, Space Bunny Alpha led real OpenRouter usage share at 18.2%. Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B, NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free), Mistral: Mistral Nemo entered the leaderboard for the first time. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 moved 11 places up since September 25, 2026.

  1. #1 Space Bunny Alpha - 18.2% usage share
  2. #2 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) - 12.3% usage share
  3. #3 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 - 7.5% usage share
  4. #4 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) - 6.5% usage share
  5. #5 Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash - 5.8% usage share
  6. #6 OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch) - 5.7% usage share
  7. #7 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) - 5.4% usage share
  8. #8 Tencent: Hy4 preview - 4.4% usage share
  9. #9 OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch) - 3.1% usage share
  10. #10 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 - 1.2% usage share
Change since September 25, 2026
#ModelUsage shareRank change
01Space Bunny Alpha18.2%no change
02DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch)12.3%no change
03DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 04237.5%+1 (+0.5pts)
04Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)6.5%-1 (-3pts)
05Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash5.8%no change
06OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)5.7%no change
07NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)5.4%no change
08Tencent: Hy4 preview4.4%no change
09OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch)3.1%no change
10DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 04231.2%+11 (+0.3pts)
11Tencent: Hy31.2%+6 (+0.2pts)
12Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)1.2%-1 (-0.3pts)
13Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch)1.1%-3 (-0.8pts)
14Upstage: Solar Pro 41.1%+4 (+0.1pts)
15Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor1.0%+1 (0pts)
16Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch)0.9%-4 (-0.1pts)
17MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)0.9%+3 (0pts)
18OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra (batch)0.9%+10 (+0.3pts)
19OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)0.9%-6 (-0.2pts)
20inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Fin0.8%+4 (+0.1pts)
21MiniMax: MiniMax M30.8%+2 (0pts)
22Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.50.8%no change
23Z.ai: GLM 5.20.8%-9 (-0.2pts)
24Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free)0.8%+3 (+0.1pts)
25Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)0.7%-6 (-0.2pts)
26Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Pro0.7%-11 (-0.3pts)
27OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol (batch)0.6%-1 (-0.1pts)
28Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)0.5%+5 (0pts)
29Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch)0.5%+1 (-0.1pts)
30Meta: Muse Spark 1.30.4%+2 (-0.1pts)
31Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 (batch)0.4%-6 (-0.3pts)
32OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (batch)0.4%+2 (-0.1pts)
33SpaceXAI: Grok 4.70.3%-2 (-0.2pts)
34Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)0.3%+8 (0pts)
35Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)0.3%+1 (-0.1pts)
36Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch)0.3%-7 (-0.3pts)
37Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash0.3%+3 (0pts)
38Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch)0.3%-1 (-0.1pts)
39Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B New0.3%-
40Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch)0.3%-2 (0pts)
41NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)0.3%no change
42Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash0.3%-7 (-0.1pts)
43inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Sante0.3%+1 (0pts)
44NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free) New0.3%-
45Mistral: Mistral Nemo New0.2%-
46DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.20.2%-3 (0pts)

This page is a permanent, unchanging record of real OpenRouter usage share as it stood on September 26, 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 26, 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.