Social Capital first reported the figures, and Peter Walker of OpenRouter confirmed the usage statistics on the platform. The results show a shift in adoption toward DeepSeek's models relative to the leading providers in the AI market for the specified period.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
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DeepSeek’s Token Use on OpenRouter’s API Tops 4 Rivals Combined
AI13 days ago
The volume of AI requests handled by DeepSeek outperformed the collective throughput of Google, Anthropic, xAI and OpenAI during the final seven days of September. This activity occurred on OpenRouter, a unified API gateway that allows developers to access and compare multiple large language models from different providers through a single interface.
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