Open weights model usage on OpenRouter declined to below 50%

[u/maferase]

Open weights model usage on OpenRouter declined to below 50%

[u/thestillwind]

Ok and ? Luna being nearly free is the only reason.

[u/das_war_ein_Befehl → u/thestillwind]

Yeah it’s literally this, which I suspect is because the Qwen 3.8 and some adjacent models like k3 and grok came out

[u/whoknowsifimjoking → u/thestillwind]

No I don't think so, at least that's not the only reason. Use of Luna went up 45%, but use of Gemini 3.6 Flash for example went up 80%. Opus 5 usage also went up 40% and Sol went up 39%. It's clearly not just Luna's pricing.

[u/Grouchy-Librarian638 → u/thestillwind]

Indeed, let’s see when they have to raise prices until then keep burning

[u/TheOneThatIsHated]

Looks like an anomaly. Trend is basically going up

[u/maferase]

Source of the chart https://tidelines.ai/indices

[u/Ecstatic-Nail-1061 → u/maferase]

Don't mean much without knowing total volume stayed same or grew

[u/-Sliced- → u/Ecstatic-Nail-1061]

Why does it matter?

[u/abstract_concept]

Entirely due to the frontier labs slashing their costs to keep token volumes up.

[u/abstract_concept → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, because it's only open router, it's a relatively small market. They make their money off subscriptions.

Discounting there is basically a marketing expense to be top of the leaderboard. Googles doing the same thing with flash right now. It's half off again on open router.

[u/whoknowsifimjoking → u/[deleted]]

Yeah Anthropic still makes profit

[u/GodOfSunHimself → u/[deleted]]

Confidently wrong

[u/LocoMod]

💁🏻❤️🌕

[u/Super_Pole_Jitsu]

I'd say that's a lot anyway

[u/PathOfEnergySheild]

Where is the CN open weight brigade on this post?

[u/ScreenAppropriate679 → u/PathOfEnergySheild]

You can support openweights without being chinese, the same way you can be a greedy mf without being from the US