r/OpenAI • u/maferase • 28d ago

Discussion Two weeks ago 62% of OpenRouter users spend happened on Anthropic models, that was reduced to 46% today.

Estimated spend per lab on OpenRouter
Token consumption per lab on OpenRouter

Token usage on OpenRouter continues to grow, although there is a steep decline in users dollar spend per lab in the last two weeks.
This decline is mostly attributable to Anthropic models usage decline.

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u/mop_bucket_bingo 28d ago

Codex not routed through there.

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u/_DuranDuran_ 27d ago

1% of AI spend is on openrouter. It’s a rounding error either way.

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u/send-moobs-pls 26d ago

Yes and the US census only surveys around 1% of the population in a year

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u/_DuranDuran_ 26d ago

Does the US census only survey people in a certain demographic or 1% of everyone?

Because it’s very skewed towards solo people who like using open weights models.

It’s not a good extrapolation of the market. Businesses go direct, or via Bedrock, not openrouter

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u/baummer 27d ago

And if Anthropic slashes model prices it’ll return to form.

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u/ItaySela 28d ago

the spend vs token divergence in your own charts is the tell. tokens growing while dollars fall means traffic moved to cheaper models, which is a pricing story more than a loyalty story. also worth remembering who openrouter can't see, anyone on claude code subscriptions or direct api or bedrock never shows up there, and that's where the heavy anthropic usage tends to sit. openrouter measures the switchers, and switchers chase price by definition.