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AI model usage rankings - September 30, 2026

As published on September 30, 2026, Space Bunny Alpha led real OpenRouter usage share at 21.9%. OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol (batch), SpaceXAI: Grok 4.7, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2, NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free) entered the leaderboard for the first time. OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra (batch) moved 9 places up since September 29, 2026.

  1. #1 Space Bunny Alpha - 21.9% usage share
  2. #2 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) - 14.3% usage share
  3. #3 Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash - 6.0% usage share
  4. #4 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 - 5.9% usage share
  5. #5 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) - 5.8% usage share
  6. #6 OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch) - 4.4% usage share
  7. #7 Tencent: Hy4 preview - 4.3% usage share
  8. #8 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) - 2.8% usage share
  9. #9 OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch) - 2.8% usage share
  10. #10 Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch) - 1.8% usage share
Change since September 29, 2026
#ModelUsage shareRank change
01Space Bunny Alpha21.9%no change
02DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch)14.3%no change
03Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash6.0%+1 (+0.3pts)
04DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 04235.9%+1 (+0.2pts)
05Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)5.8%-2 (-0.2pts)
06OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch)4.4%+2 (+1.2pts)
07Tencent: Hy4 preview4.3%no change
08NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)2.8%+1 (0pts)
09OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)2.8%-3 (-2.3pts)
10Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch)1.8%+3 (+0.6pts)
11Tencent: Hy31.6%-1 (-0.1pts)
12Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch)1.6%-1 (0pts)
13Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)1.5%-1 (+0.2pts)
14OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)1.1%+8 (+0.4pts)
15MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)1.1%-1 (0pts)
16DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 04230.9%-1 (0pts)
17Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor0.9%no change
18Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Pro0.9%+3 (+0.1pts)
19Z.ai: GLM 5.20.8%+1 (+0.1pts)
20MiniMax: MiniMax M30.8%-1 (0pts)
21Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)0.8%-3 (0pts)
22Upstage: Solar Pro 40.7%+1 (0pts)
23OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol (batch)0.7%-7 (-0.2pts)
24Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.50.7%no change
25OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra (batch)0.6%+9 (+0.3pts)
26Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (batch)0.6%+3 (+0.2pts)
27Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free)0.6%-2 (0pts)
28Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)0.4%-2 (0pts)
29OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol (batch) New0.4%-
30OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (batch)0.4%-2 (0pts)
31Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch)0.4%-4 (0pts)
32Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)0.3%no change
33OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro (batch)0.3%+9 (+0.1pts)
34Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash0.3%-4 (-0.1pts)
35Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch)0.3%-2 (0pts)
36Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch)0.3%-1 (0pts)
37Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)0.3%+2 (0pts)
38NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)0.3%-2 (0pts)
39Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch)0.3%-8 (-0.1pts)
40Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B0.3%+5 (+0.1pts)
41Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 (batch)0.3%-4 (0pts)
42inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Sante0.2%-2 (0pts)
43SpaceXAI: Grok 4.7 New0.2%-
44DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 New0.2%-
45NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free) New0.2%-
46Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (batch)0.2%-2 (0pts)

This page is a permanent, unchanging record of real OpenRouter usage share as it stood on September 30, 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 30, 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.