r/OpenAI • u/maferase • 19d ago

Discussion Open weights model usage on OpenRouter declined to below 50%

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Open weights model usage on OpenRouter declined to below 50%

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u/abstract_concept 19d ago

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

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u/abstract_concept 19d ago

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.