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AI model usage rankings - October 17, 2026
As published on October 17, 2026, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) led real OpenRouter usage share at 26.0%. Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free), Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed entered the leaderboard for the first time. Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B moved 11 places down since October 16, 2026.
- #1 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) - 26.0% usage share
- #2 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) - 8.3% usage share
- #3 Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash - 6.3% usage share
- #4 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 - 5.0% usage share
- #5 Tencent: Hy4 preview - 4.9% usage share
- #6 Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch) - 4.4% usage share
- #7 OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch) - 3.9% usage share
- #8 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch) - 3.4% usage share
- #9 Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor - 2.6% usage share
- #10 Tencent: Hy3 - 1.8% usage share
| # | Model | Usage share | Rank change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) | 26.0% | no change |
| 02 | Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) | 8.3% | no change |
| 03 | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash | 6.3% | no change |
| 04 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | 5.0% | +1 (+0.4pts) |
| 05 | Tencent: Hy4 preview | 4.9% | -1 (-0.6pts) |
| 06 | Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch) | 4.4% | +2 (+0.2pts) |
| 07 | OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch) | 3.9% | -1 (-0.6pts) |
| 08 | Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch) | 3.4% | -1 (-0.8pts) |
| 09 | Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor | 2.6% | +1 (+0.6pts) |
| 10 | Tencent: Hy3 | 1.8% | -1 (-0.3pts) |
| 11 | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (batch) | 1.7% | no change |
| 12 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch) | 1.5% | +6 (+0.4pts) |
| 13 | Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) | 1.4% | no change |
| 14 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) | 1.3% | +1 (0pts) |
| 15 | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Pro | 1.1% | +5 (+0.2pts) |
| 16 | OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol (batch) | 1.1% | -2 (-0.2pts) |
| 17 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 | 1.1% | no change |
| 18 | MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch) | 1.0% | +3 (+0.1pts) |
| 19 | MiniMax: MiniMax M3 | 1.0% | no change |
| 20 | Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch) | 1.0% | -4 (-0.2pts) |
| 21 | Upstage: Solar Mini 4 | 0.8% | +3 (+0.2pts) |
| 22 | Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free) | 0.8% | +3 (+0.2pts) |
| 23 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B | 0.8% | -11 (-1pts) |
| 24 | Google: Gemini 4 Argon (batch) | 0.7% | -1 (0pts) |
| 25 | Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch) | 0.6% | +10 (+0.2pts) |
| 26 | Z.ai: GLM 5.2 | 0.6% | no change |
| 27 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free) | 0.5% | no change |
| 28 | Google: Gemma 4 31B (free) | 0.5% | +10 (+0.2pts) |
| 29 | Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) | 0.5% | -1 (0pts) |
| 30 | Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch) | 0.5% | no change |
| 31 | Upstage: Solar Pro 4 | 0.5% | -2 (0pts) |
| 32 | Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash | 0.4% | +4 (0pts) |
| 33 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) | 0.4% | +1 (0pts) |
| 34 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free) | 0.4% | -3 (0pts) |
| 35 | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5 | 0.4% | +2 (0pts) |
| 36 | OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (batch) | 0.4% | -3 (0pts) |
| 37 | Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch) | 0.3% | +2 (-0.1pts) |
| 38 | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch) | 0.3% | -6 (-0.1pts) |
| 39 | Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B | 0.3% | +3 (0pts) |
| 40 | Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) New | 0.3% | - |
| 41 | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed New | 0.2% | - |
| 42 | OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro (batch) | 0.2% | -1 (0pts) |
| 43 | Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch) | 0.2% | +2 (0pts) |
This page is a permanent, unchanging record of real OpenRouter usage share as it stood on October 17, 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 17, 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.