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Chinese labs grew from 10% to 78% of tokens on OpenRouter, more than Anthropic and OpenAI combined. Share of weekly tokens on OpenRouter among Anthropic, OpenAI and Chinese labs, January 2025 to October 4, 2026. Week of September 28, 2026: OpenAI 17%, Chinese labs 78%, Anthropic 6%.

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Chinese labs grew from 10% to 78% of tokens on OpenRouter, more than Anthropic and OpenAI combined. Share of weekly tokens on OpenRouter among Anthropic, OpenAI and Chinese labs, January 2025 to October 4, 2026. Week of September 28, 2026: OpenAI 17%, Chinese labs 78%, Anthropic 6%.

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Chinese labs' share of OpenRouter tokens

Weekly tokens served on OpenRouter, split between Anthropic, OpenAI and Chinese labs, since the first full week of 2025. Chinese labs' models cost much less per token, so their share of tokens runs far higher than their share of spend.

Chinese labs grew from 10% to 78% of tokens on OpenRouter, more than Anthropic and OpenAI combined.
Share of weekly tokens on OpenRouter among Anthropic, OpenAI and Chinese labs, January 2025 to October 4, 2026. Week of September 28, 2026: OpenAI 17%, Chinese labs 78%, Anthropic 6%.

Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of 2026-10-07

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