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Token Share by Source Type & OriginLive

How the balance between closed-source, Western open-source, and Chinese open-source AI models has shifted on OpenRouter — the largest neutral AI routing platform.

Chinese OSS RoW OSS Closed / Proprietary

Historical Token Share

% of all tokens routed through OpenRouter, by week — Jan 2024 to present (Jan–Oct 2024 estimated)

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Key releases — hover chart markers for details:
OSS share today
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of tokens on OpenRouter
Chinese OSS models
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available on OpenRouter
RoW OSS models
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available on OpenRouter
Closed models
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available on OpenRouter
Avg input price per million tokens — paid models only
Chinese OSS
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RoW OSS
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OpenAI
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Anthropic
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Google
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Other Closed
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Current Model Distribution

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total models

Average Input Price by Category

Per million tokens (live from OpenRouter, paid models only)

Revenue Efficiency — Closed Providers

Estimated revenue share (model count × avg price) vs share of total model listings — live from OpenRouter

Revenue share per model
Revenue share vs model count share
Revenue share Model count share

Local vs Cloud — Where Models Are Actually Run

HuggingFace top-500 text-generation models by monthly downloads (local/self-hosted) vs OpenRouter token routing (cloud API) — updated weekly

Download share — self-hosted (HuggingFace)
Local vs cloud: Chinese & Western OSS
Key Insights
DeepSeek changed everything. The release of DeepSeek V3 and R1 in January 2025 drove Chinese OSS from ~5% to over 12% of token share within weeks — the fastest category shift in OpenRouter's history.
Combined OSS now accounts for over a third of all tokens. Chinese OSS (14%) and RoW OSS (23%) together now exceed 37% of OpenRouter token share — a level that would have been unthinkable before DeepSeek's January 2025 releases. The 30% threshold was first crossed in mid-2025 following Kimi K2, Qwen 3 Coder, and the GPT OSS Family.
Closed models' share has fallen to ~63% and is still declining. Down from ~75% at the start of 2024, closed models — primarily OpenAI and Anthropic — retain the majority through enterprise adoption and API reliability, but the trend line is consistently lower each quarter.
Chinese OSS has doubled since its post-DeepSeek trough. After settling to ~7% in mid-2025, Chinese OSS climbed steadily back to 14% by June 2026 — driven by a widening roster of competitive models from DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and MiniMax rather than a single release event.
Methodology

Historical data is sourced from OpenRouter's published "Token Share by Source Type and Origin" chart (openrouter.ai), covering weekly token share from November 2024 onwards. Data points reflect the percentage of all tokens routed through OpenRouter attributed to each category.

Current snapshot (model counts and pricing) is fetched live from the OpenRouter public API (/api/v1/models) at page load. Models are categorised by provider organisation:

  • Chinese OSS — DeepSeek, Qwen/Alibaba, Kimi/Moonshot, MiniMax, StepFun, Zhipu/GLM, ByteDance, Baidu, Yi and equivalents with open weights (HuggingFace ID present)
  • RoW OSS — Meta/Llama, Mistral, Google Gemma, Microsoft Phi, NVIDIA Nemotron, Cohere Command-R and equivalents with open weights
  • Closed — OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini Pro/Ultra, Amazon Titan and equivalents without open weights

Average pricing excludes free-tier variants (:free suffix) to avoid distorting the paid market comparison.

Data sourced from OpenRouter public API and published charts · HuggingFace Hub API (top-500 text-generation, monthly downloads). Model categorisation by Zing. Report generated —.

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