OpenRouter Provider Economics
Infrastructure usage, market share, and estimated provider billings
Infrastructure provider · slug akashml · as of 2026-10-11 · methodology observed_tokens_calibrated_model_mix_observed_pricing
Jul 1, 2026 → Oct 11, 2026 · observed tokens with calibrated model-mix revenue estimates
Stacked daily OpenRouter-attributable billings from this provider’s model mix (similar layout to OpenRouter’s tokens chart, in $)
| Model | Est Tokens | Listed In $/M | Listed Out $/M | Eff In $/M | Eff Out $/M | Cache Hit | I/O Mix | Blended $/M | Est Billings | % Tokens | % Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| openai/gpt-oss-120b | 4.7B | $0.0300 | $0.1870 | $0.0298 | $0.1860 | 50.6% | 84.0/16.0 | $0.0552 | $258 | 47.2% | 19.5% |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | 1.7B | $0.1000 | $0.9000 | $0.0772 | $0.8981 | 44.0% | 95.5/4.5 | $0.1362 | $228 | 16.9% | 17.3% |
| z-ai/glm-5.3 | 1.5B | $0.1900 | $4.4000 | $0.1900 | $4.3998 | 61.4% | 98.8/1.2 | $0.2390 | $367 | 15.5% | 27.8% |
| openai/gpt-oss-20b | 952.8M | $0.0200 | $0.1000 | — | — | — | 80.0/20.0 | $0.0360 | $34 | 9.6% | 2.6% |
| meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct | 685.4M | $0.2000 | $0.5200 | — | — | — | 80.0/20.0 | $0.2640 | $181 | 6.9% | 13.7% |
| qwen/qwen3.8-27b | 271.3M | $0.2250 | $1.9800 | $0.1258 | $1.9793 | 40.7% | 95.7/4.3 | $0.3009 | $82 | 2.7% | 6.2% |
| moonshotai/kimi-k3 | 109.8M | $1.2000 | $14.0000 | $1.1999 | $14.0000 | 79.2% | 97.3/2.7 | $1.5492 | $170 | 1.1% | 12.9% |
| Date | Tokens | Share | $/Day | RouteProxy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-11 | 9.9B | 0.0% | $1.3K | 0.002 |
| 2026-10-10 | 9.6B | 0.0% | $1.4K | 0.002 |
| 2026-10-09 | 12.1B | 0.0% | $1.6K | 0.002 |
| 2026-10-08 | 12.2B | 0.0% | $1.6K | 0.002 |
| 2026-10-07 | 16.0B | 0.1% | $1.7K | 0.002 |
| 2026-10-06 | 18.6B | 0.1% | $1.9K | 0.002 |
| 2026-10-05 | 9.7B | 0.0% | $1.4K | 0.002 |
| 2026-10-04 | 7.3B | 0.0% | $1.5K | 0.002 |
| 2026-10-03 | 12.7B | 0.1% | $2.2K | 0.002 |
| 2026-10-02 | 14.4B | 0.1% | $2.7K | 0.002 |
| 2026-10-01 | 11.3B | 0.0% | $2.7K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-30 | 18.1B | 0.1% | $3.8K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-29 | 32.1B | 0.1% | $3.7K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-28 | 15.0B | 0.1% | $2.2K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-27 | 17.1B | 0.1% | $2.2K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-26 | 20.7B | 0.1% | $2.4K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-25 | 19.6B | 0.1% | $2.8K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-24 | 18.9B | 0.1% | $2.9K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-23 | 17.2B | 0.1% | $3.0K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-22 | 17.9B | 0.1% | $2.3K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-21 | 16.9B | 0.1% | $3.5K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-20 | 13.9B | 0.1% | $1.4K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-19 | 14.0B | 0.1% | $1.8K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-18 | 14.6B | 0.1% | $1.8K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-17 | 14.2B | 0.1% | $3.2K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-16 | 13.1B | 0.1% | $2.7K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-15 | 15.4B | 0.1% | $3.0K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-14 | 17.3B | 0.1% | $3.3K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-13 | 16.1B | 0.1% | $3.8K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-12 | 21.0B | 0.1% | $4.9K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-11 | 26.8B | 0.2% | $8.4K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-10 | 22.7B | 0.1% | $8.9K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-09 | 17.0B | 0.1% | $7.4K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-08 | 19.8B | 0.1% | $5.8K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-07 | 19.1B | 0.1% | $7.7K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-06 | 15.5B | 0.1% | $7.3K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-05 | 15.7B | 0.1% | $6.5K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-04 | 25.0B | 0.1% | $7.6K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-03 | 20.5B | 0.1% | $7.2K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-02 | 38.0B | 0.2% | $9.2K | 0.002 |
| 2026-09-01 | 32.8B | 0.2% | $7.6K | 0.002 |
| 2026-08-31 | 25.8B | 0.2% | $7.2K | 0.002 |
| 2026-08-30 | 22.5B | 0.2% | $8.9K | 0.002 |
| 2026-08-29 | 23.6B | 0.2% | $9.4K | 0.002 |
| 2026-08-28 | 31.3B | 0.2% | $6.4K | 0.002 |
| 2026-08-27 | 22.0B | 0.1% | $6.2K | 0.002 |
| 2026-08-26 | 26.1B | 0.1% | $7.9K | 0.002 |
| 2026-08-25 | 26.1B | 0.1% | $8.0K | 0.001 |
| 2026-08-24 | 20.1B | 0.1% | $5.5K | 0.001 |
| 2026-08-23 | 13.5B | 0.1% | $3.2K | 0.001 |
| 2026-08-22 | 9.9B | 0.1% | $2.1K | 0.001 |
| 2026-08-21 | 21.5B | 0.2% | $6.9K | 0.001 |
| 2026-08-20 | 22.5B | 0.2% | $7.7K | 0.001 |
| 2026-08-19 | 19.4B | 0.2% | $6.0K | 0.002 |
| 2026-08-18 | 22.2B | 0.2% | $11.1K | 0.002 |
| 2026-08-17 | 21.1B | 0.2% | $7.6K | 0.002 |
| 2026-08-16 | 34.4B | 0.3% | $9.7K | 0.003 |
| 2026-08-15 | 18.9B | 0.2% | $4.9K | 0.004 |
| 2026-08-14 | 15.8B | 0.1% | $3.4K | 0.002 |
| 2026-08-13 | 13.0B | 0.1% | $2.8K | 0.006 |
| 2026-08-12 | 11.2B | 0.1% | $2.1K | 0.006 |
| 2026-08-11 | 11.0B | 0.1% | $2.2K | 0.006 |
| 2026-08-10 | 10.8B | 0.1% | $2.2K | 0.006 |
| 2026-08-09 | 10.9B | 0.1% | $2.1K | 0.006 |
| 2026-08-08 | 9.6B | 0.1% | $2.1K | 0.006 |
| 2026-08-07 | 8.9B | 0.1% | $2.2K | 0.006 |
| 2026-08-06 | 10.1B | 0.1% | $2.5K | 0.006 |
| 2026-08-05 | 7.4B | 0.1% | $1.8K | 0.006 |
| 2026-08-04 | 8.4B | 0.1% | $2.0K | 0.006 |
| 2026-08-03 | 9.4B | 0.1% | $1.9K | 0.006 |
| 2026-08-02 | 9.7B | 0.1% | $1.6K | 0.006 |
| 2026-08-01 | 10.0B | 0.1% | $1.8K | 0.006 |
| 2026-07-31 | 10.3B | 0.1% | $2.0K | 0.006 |
| 2026-07-30 | 11.2B | 0.1% | $2.2K | 0.006 |
| 2026-07-29 | 11.5B | 0.1% | $2.2K | 0.006 |
| 2026-07-28 | 9.0B | 0.1% | $1.5K | 0.006 |
| 2026-07-27 | 11.0B | 0.1% | $2.7K | 0.006 |
| 2026-07-26 | 10.3B | 0.1% | $2.5K | 0.006 |
| 2026-07-25 | 10.5B | 0.1% | $2.5K | 0.006 |
| 2026-07-24 | 11.0B | 0.1% | $2.7K | 0.006 |
| 2026-07-23 | 11.1B | 0.1% | $2.5K | 0.006 |
| 2026-07-22 | 17.1B | 0.2% | $4.5K | 0.006 |
| 2026-07-21 | 11.4B | 0.1% | $2.7K | 0.006 |
| 2026-07-20 | 10.9B | 0.1% | $2.5K | 0.006 |
| 2026-07-19 | 14.4B | 0.2% | $3.6K | 0.006 |
| 2026-07-18 | 14.5B | 0.2% | $3.7K | 0.006 |
| 2026-07-17 | 16.5B | 0.2% | $4.2K | 0.006 |
| 2026-07-16 | 13.9B | 0.1% | $3.3K | 0.006 |
| 2026-07-15 | 13.7B | 0.1% | $3.2K | 0.006 |
| 2026-07-14 | 15.0B | 0.2% | $3.8K | 0.006 |
| 2026-07-13 | 13.5B | 0.2% | $3.3K | 0.006 |
| 2026-07-12 | 9.8B | 0.1% | $2.3K | 0.006 |
| 2026-07-11 | 13.5B | 0.2% | $3.3K | 0.006 |
| 2026-07-10 | 14.1B | 0.2% | $3.5K | 0.002 |
| 2026-07-09 | 13.4B | 0.2% | $3.3K | 0.002 |
| 2026-07-08 | 13.8B | 0.2% | $3.6K | 0.002 |
| 2026-07-07 | 12.8B | 0.2% | $3.2K | 0.002 |
| 2026-07-06 | 15.7B | 0.2% | $4.0K | 0.002 |
| 2026-07-05 | 13.7B | 0.2% | $3.5K | 0.002 |
| 2026-07-04 | 12.2B | 0.2% | $2.9K | 0.002 |
| 2026-07-03 | 11.3B | 0.2% | $2.8K | 0.002 |
| 2026-07-02 | 11.4B | 0.2% | $3.0K | 0.002 |
| 2026-07-01 | 11.1B | 0.2% | $2.9K | 0.002 |