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AI model usage rankings - August 8, 2026

As published on August 8, 2026, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 led real OpenRouter usage share at 22.2%. Mistral: Mistral Nemo, Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B entered the leaderboard for the first time. Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch) moved 11 places down since August 7, 2026.

  1. #1 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 - 22.2% usage share
  2. #2 Tencent: Hy3 - 16.7% usage share
  3. #3 Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5 - 7.2% usage share
  4. #4 OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch) - 6.8% usage share
  5. #5 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro - 4.1% usage share
  6. #6 NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) - 3.9% usage share
  7. #7 Z.ai: GLM 5.2 (batch) - 3.8% usage share
  8. #8 Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free) - 2.7% usage share
  9. #9 MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (batch) - 2.6% usage share
  10. #10 StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash - 1.9% usage share
Change since August 7, 2026
#ModelUsage shareRank change
01DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 042322.2%no change
02Tencent: Hy316.7%no change
03Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.57.2%+1 (+0.1pts)
04OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)6.8%-1 (-0.6pts)
05DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro4.1%+3 (+1pts)
06NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)3.9%+1 (+0.4pts)
07Z.ai: GLM 5.2 (batch)3.8%-2 (-1.5pts)
08Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free)2.7%+1 (+0.1pts)
09MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (batch)2.6%+1 (+0.3pts)
10StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash1.9%+3 (+0.2pts)
11MoonshotAI: Kimi K31.9%+1 (0pts)
12Claude Opus 5 (batch)1.9%-1 (0pts)
13Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch)1.1%+2 (-0.1pts)
14OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra (batch)1.1%+2 (-0.2pts)
15Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)1.0%-1 (-0.6pts)
16Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (batch)1.0%+1 (-0.2pts)
17Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)0.9%-11 (-3.2pts)
18Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)0.9%+2 (+0.1pts)
19Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)0.8%+4 (+0.1pts)
20OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)0.7%-2 (-0.2pts)
21OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch)0.7%-2 (-0.1pts)
22Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch)0.7%-1 (-0.1pts)
23Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)0.7%+8 (+0.2pts)
24Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)0.6%+3 (0pts)
25DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.20.6%+1 (0pts)
26Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5-Pro0.6%-1 (0pts)
27Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)0.6%-5 (-0.1pts)
28NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free)0.6%no change
29OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b0.6%no change
30Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 (batch)0.6%-6 (-0.1pts)
31SpaceXAI: Grok 4.50.5%-1 (-0.1pts)
32inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash0.4%+1 (+0.1pts)
33Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 (batch)0.3%+3 (+0.1pts)
34Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max0.3%-2 (0pts)
35OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (batch)0.3%no change
36Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch)0.3%-2 (0pts)
37Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1 (free)0.3%+5 (0pts)
38MiniMax: MiniMax M2.70.3%+3 (0pts)
39OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini (batch)0.2%-2 (0pts)
40Mistral: Mistral Nemo New0.2%-
41Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)0.2%-2 (0pts)
42OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b (free)0.2%+4 (0pts)
43Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash0.2%+4 (0pts)
44Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B New0.2%-
45OpenAI: GPT-5.5 (batch)0.2%+3 (0pts)
46Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (batch)0.2%-3 (0pts)
47MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.60.2%-7 (-0.1pts)
48Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (batch)0.2%-4 (0pts)
← August 7, 2026

This page is a permanent, unchanging record of real OpenRouter usage share as it stood on August 8, 2026. Later corrections to the data pipeline appear as new dated snapshots - this page's figures never change.

Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of August 8, 2026.

Benchmark scores: Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai) via OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings).

Methodology: smophy.ai/benchmark/methodology

Token counts originate from each provider's own tokenizer and are not directly comparable across providers.