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AI model usage rankings - October 22, 2026

As published on October 22, 2026, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) led real OpenRouter usage share at 26.6%. Mistral: Mistral Large 4, OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra (batch) entered the leaderboard for the first time. SpaceXAI: Grok 4.7 moved 10 places up since October 21, 2026.

  1. #1 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) - 26.6% usage share
  2. #2 MiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 Flash - 10.9% usage share
  3. #3 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) - 6.3% usage share
  4. #4 Tencent: Hy4 preview - 4.8% usage share
  5. #5 Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch) - 4.3% usage share
  6. #6 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 - 3.4% usage share
  7. #7 OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch) - 3.2% usage share
  8. #8 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) - 3.1% usage share
  9. #9 Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash - 3.1% usage share
  10. #10 Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch) - 3.0% usage share
Change since October 21, 2026
#ModelUsage shareRank change
01DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch)26.6%no change
02MiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 Flash10.9%no change
03Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)6.3%no change
04Tencent: Hy4 preview4.8%no change
05Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch)4.3%no change
06DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 04233.4%+1 (+0.1pts)
07OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch)3.2%+2 (+0.2pts)
08NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)3.1%no change
09Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash3.1%-3 (-0.4pts)
10Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch)3.0%no change
11Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch)2.5%+3 (+1.2pts)
12StepFun: Step 5 Preview2.1%+8 (+1.3pts)
13Tencent: Hy31.5%-1 (+0.1pts)
14OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol (batch)1.5%-1 (+0.1pts)
15Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (batch)1.4%-4 (-0.1pts)
16MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)1.4%no change
17Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor1.2%-2 (0pts)
18DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 04230.9%no change
19Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)0.8%-2 (-0.1pts)
20OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)0.8%-1 (-0.1pts)
21Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Pro0.7%no change
22Upstage: Solar Mini 40.7%+1 (+0.1pts)
23MiniMax: MiniMax M30.6%-1 (0pts)
24Google: Gemini 4 Argon (batch)0.5%+2 (+0.1pts)
25NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)0.5%-1 (0pts)
26SpaceXAI: Grok 4.70.5%+10 (+0.2pts)
27Z.ai: GLM 5.20.5%-2 (0pts)
28NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free)0.5%-1 (0pts)
29Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch)0.5%-1 (0pts)
30Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free)0.4%-1 (0pts)
31Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash0.4%no change
32Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch)0.3%-2 (0pts)
33Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)0.3%-1 (0pts)
34Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B0.3%+4 (+0.1pts)
35OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (batch)0.3%+4 (+0.1pts)
36Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)0.3%-2 (0pts)
37OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra (batch)0.3%-4 (0pts)
38Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)0.3%-3 (0pts)
39Mistral: Mistral Large 4 New0.3%-
40Upstage: Solar Pro 40.2%+3 (0pts)
41OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro (batch)0.2%-4 (0pts)
42Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch)0.2%-1 (0pts)
43Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)0.2%+1 (0pts)
44OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra (batch) New0.2%-

This page is a permanent, unchanging record of real OpenRouter usage share as it stood on October 22, 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 22, 2026.

Benchmark scores: Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai) via OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings).

Methodology: www.smophy.ai/benchmark/methodology

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