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AI model usage rankings - October 6, 2026

As published on October 6, 2026, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) led real OpenRouter usage share at 23.1%. Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash entered the leaderboard for the first time. Upstage: Solar Pro 4 moved 14 places up since October 5, 2026.

  1. #1 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) - 23.1% usage share
  2. #2 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) - 7.6% usage share
  3. #3 Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash - 7.2% usage share
  4. #4 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 - 6.0% usage share
  5. #5 Tencent: Hy4 preview - 5.6% usage share
  6. #6 OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch) - 4.7% usage share
  7. #7 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) - 3.9% usage share
  8. #8 OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) - 2.9% usage share
  9. #9 Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch) - 2.9% usage share
  10. #10 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch) - 2.3% usage share
Change since October 5, 2026
#ModelUsage shareRank change
01DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch)23.1%no change
02Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)7.6%+1 (+1.4pts)
03Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash7.2%+1 (+1.3pts)
04DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 04236.0%+1 (+0.8pts)
05Tencent: Hy4 preview5.6%+1 (+1.5pts)
06OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch)4.7%+2 (+1.4pts)
07NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)3.9%no change
08OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)2.9%+7 (+2pts)
09Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch)2.9%+1 (+1.1pts)
10Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch)2.3%-1 (+0.4pts)
11Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (batch)1.6%+12 (+1.1pts)
12Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)1.4%-1 (+0.2pts)
13DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 04231.4%+1 (+0.3pts)
14Z.ai: GLM 5.21.3%+5 (+0.6pts)
15MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)1.3%-3 (+0.1pts)
16OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)1.2%-3 (+0.1pts)
17Tencent: Hy31.2%-1 (+0.3pts)
18OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol (batch)1.1%no change
19Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor0.9%-2 (+0.1pts)
20MiniMax: MiniMax M30.8%+1 (+0.2pts)
21Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Pro0.8%-1 (+0.1pts)
22Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)0.7%+4 (+0.1pts)
23Upstage: Solar Pro 40.6%+14 (+0.4pts)
24Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free)0.6%+3 (+0.2pts)
25Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch)0.6%-3 (0pts)
26Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch)0.6%+3 (+0.2pts)
27NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)0.6%+1 (+0.1pts)
28Upstage: Solar Mini 40.5%+14 (+0.3pts)
29Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.50.5%-4 (0pts)
30OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol (batch)0.5%-6 (0pts)
31NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free)0.4%+1 (+0.1pts)
32Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)0.4%-1 (+0.1pts)
33inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Sante0.4%+6 (+0.1pts)
34OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (batch)0.4%+2 (+0.1pts)
35Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash0.4%+6 (+0.1pts)
36Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)0.4%-2 (+0.1pts)
37Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B0.4%-2 (+0.1pts)
38SpaceXAI: Grok 4.70.3%+2 (+0.1pts)
39inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash0.3%-6 (0pts)
40OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra (batch)0.3%-10 (0pts)
41Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch)0.3%-3 (0pts)
42Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch)0.3%+2 (+0.1pts)
43OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro (batch)0.3%+2 (+0.1pts)
44Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)0.3%-1 (0pts)
45Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash New0.2%-
46Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)0.2%no change

This page is a permanent, unchanging record of real OpenRouter usage share as it stood on October 6, 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 October 6, 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.