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AI model usage rankings - October 20, 2026

As published on October 20, 2026, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) led real OpenRouter usage share at 24.2%. StepFun: Step 5 Preview, OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) entered the leaderboard for the first time. Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) moved 10 places down since October 19, 2026.

  1. #1 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) - 24.2% usage share
  2. #2 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) - 5.3% usage share
  3. #3 Tencent: Hy4 preview - 4.8% usage share
  4. #4 Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch) - 4.4% usage share
  5. #5 Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash - 4.0% usage share
  6. #6 OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch) - 3.5% usage share
  7. #7 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 - 3.5% usage share
  8. #8 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) - 3.3% usage share
  9. #9 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch) - 2.6% usage share
  10. #10 StepFun: Step 5 Preview - 2.0% usage share
Change since October 19, 2026
#ModelUsage shareRank change
01DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch)24.2%no change
02Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)5.3%no change
03Tencent: Hy4 preview4.8%no change
04Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch)4.4%+1 (0pts)
05Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash4.0%-1 (-1.1pts)
06OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch)3.5%+1 (-0.1pts)
07DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 04233.5%-1 (-0.6pts)
08NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)3.3%no change
09Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch)2.6%no change
10StepFun: Step 5 Preview New2.0%-
11Tencent: Hy31.8%-1 (-0.3pts)
12Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor1.6%-1 (-0.4pts)
13Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (batch)1.5%-1 (0pts)
14OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol (batch)1.2%+1 (+0.1pts)
15MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)1.0%-1 (-0.2pts)
16Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)0.9%+3 (0pts)
17Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch)0.9%-1 (-0.1pts)
18Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Pro0.9%-5 (-0.3pts)
19DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 04230.8%-1 (-0.1pts)
20OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)0.8%-3 (-0.1pts)
21MiniMax: MiniMax M30.7%no change
22Z.ai: GLM 5.20.6%+1 (0pts)
23Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch)0.6%+2 (0pts)
24NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)0.5%+2 (0pts)
25NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free)0.5%-5 (-0.3pts)
26Upstage: Solar Mini 40.5%-4 (-0.1pts)
27Google: Gemini 4 Argon (batch)0.5%no change
28Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free)0.5%-4 (-0.1pts)
29Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)0.4%+1 (0pts)
30Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash0.3%-1 (-0.1pts)
31Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch)0.3%-3 (-0.1pts)
32Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)0.3%+1 (0pts)
33Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B0.3%+9 (+0.1pts)
34Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)0.3%+1 (0pts)
35OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (batch)0.3%+1 (0pts)
36OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra (batch)0.3%+3 (0pts)
37OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro (batch)0.3%+4 (0pts)
38Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.50.3%-1 (0pts)
39OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) New0.2%-
40OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol (batch)0.2%-2 (0pts)
41Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)0.2%-10 (-0.1pts)
42Upstage: Solar Pro 40.2%-10 (-0.1pts)
43Google: 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 20, 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 20, 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.