OpenRouter, the unified API gateway providing access to over 400 large language models through a single interface, saw its weekly token usage grow from 10 billion to over 90 trillion between January 2024 and mid-2026, a 9,000x increase. Agentic AI workloads now account for 71% of total token consumption on the platform, with a 14-fold growth in just six months. Chinese open-source models like DeepSeek captured over 50% of the token market, pushing US frontier models from 70% down to 30%. OpenRouter reached approximately $140 million in annualized revenue by July 2026 and closed a $113 million Series B round in May, valuing the company at roughly $1.3 billion. The platform now serves over 8 million users.
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