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AI model usage rankings - October 8, 2026

As published on October 8, 2026, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) led real OpenRouter usage share at 22.6%. StepFun: Step 5 Preview, Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch), Meta: Muse Spark 1.3, Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max entered the leaderboard for the first time. OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) moved 14 places down since October 7, 2026.

  1. #1 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) - 22.6% usage share
  2. #2 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) - 7.5% usage share
  3. #3 Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash - 7.2% usage share
  4. #4 Tencent: Hy4 preview - 5.3% usage share
  5. #5 OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch) - 5.2% usage share
  6. #6 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 - 4.7% usage share
  7. #7 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) - 4.0% usage share
  8. #8 Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch) - 3.3% usage share
  9. #9 StepFun: Step 5 Preview - 2.6% usage share
  10. #10 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch) - 2.4% usage share
Change since October 7, 2026
#ModelUsage shareRank change
01DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch)22.6%no change
02Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)7.5%no change
03Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash7.2%no change
04Tencent: Hy4 preview5.3%no change
05OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch)5.2%+1 (+0.8pts)
06DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 04234.7%-1 (0pts)
07NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)4.0%no change
08Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch)3.3%no change
09StepFun: Step 5 Preview New2.6%-
10Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch)2.4%-1 (+0.4pts)
11Tencent: Hy31.9%+4 (+0.7pts)
12Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor1.5%+7 (+0.6pts)
13DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 04231.5%+1 (+0.2pts)
14Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) New1.4%-
15MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)1.3%+1 (+0.2pts)
16OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol (batch)1.3%-5 (-0.1pts)
17Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)1.3%-4 (0pts)
18OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)1.2%-1 (+0.1pts)
19Z.ai: GLM 5.21.2%-9 (-0.2pts)
20Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (batch)1.0%-8 (-0.4pts)
21MiniMax: MiniMax M30.8%-1 (+0.1pts)
22Upstage: Solar Pro 40.7%-1 (0pts)
23Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Pro0.7%-1 (0pts)
24SpaceXAI: Grok 4.70.7%+5 (+0.3pts)
25OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol (batch)0.6%no change
26Upstage: Solar Mini 40.6%-3 (0pts)
27Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free)0.6%-3 (0pts)
28Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch)0.6%no change
29Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)0.6%-3 (0pts)
30Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch)0.6%+10 (+0.3pts)
31NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)0.5%-4 (0pts)
32OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)0.5%-14 (-0.6pts)
33NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free)0.4%-2 (0pts)
34Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.50.4%-4 (0pts)
35Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)0.4%-3 (0pts)
36OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra (batch)0.3%-2 (0pts)
37inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash0.3%-2 (0pts)
38Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 New0.3%-
39OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (batch)0.3%-3 (0pts)
40Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)0.3%-2 (0pts)
41Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)0.3%-2 (0pts)
42Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch)0.3%no change
43Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch)0.3%no change
44Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max New0.3%-
45Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)0.3%-1 (0pts)
46inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Sante0.2%-9 (-0.1pts)

This page is a permanent, unchanging record of real OpenRouter usage share as it stood on October 8, 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 8, 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.