DeepSeek Accounts for 53% of Daily OpenRouter Tokens
DeepSeek alone drove 53% of all 27 trillion tokens processed on OpenRouter yesterday, contributing to a total market share of over 75% for open-weights AI labs. This milestone highlights the massive surge in popularity and real-world usage of open-weights models compared to proprietary alternatives. The statistics were tracked via OpenRouter metrics showing daily token volume reaching 27 trillion, with open-weights labs capturing three-quarters of that traffic.
## BACKGROUND
OpenRouter is an AI routing platform that aggregates various large language models through a unified API. Open-weights models refer to artificial intelligence models whose trained parameters, such as weights and biases, are publicly released for developers to download and run.