OpenRouter Data
Our industry-leading empirical data helps AI companies build and serve great models.
How We Think About Data
We don't sell prompt data. When we share data, it's aggregated usage trends that help the industry move forward.
We're an API business, not a data business — and we take our responsibility to protect customer data seriously.
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Trusted by Leading Institutions
OpenRouter operates one of the largest AI inference platforms in the world, generating an authoritative empirical dataset relied upon by government agencies, academic researchers, major industry analysts, and global media outlets.
NIST / CAISI
U.S. Government
Used OpenRouter request counts as an empirical adoption metric to evaluate AI model diffusion, citing 97.5 million API requests within four weeks.
MIT / Boston University
Academic Research
Economists constructed a model-day panel dataset from OpenRouter data to study LLM demand, substitution patterns, and multi-homing behavior.
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State of AI 2025
The most comprehensive empirical study of LLM usage to date, analyzing 100 trillion tokens of anonymized request-level metadata across hundreds of models.
Brookings Institution
Policy Research
Cited the State of AI study in a policy report on AI sovereignty, bringing empirical usage findings into government policy research.
Reuters
Journalism
Used OpenRouter-derived market share statistics to contextualize competitive dynamics among LLM providers in mainstream financial and tech analysis.
Cisco
Enterprise Industry
Cited OpenRouter rankings as market telemetry in a white paper on AI infrastructure and inference-era networking needs.
Reports & Live Data
In-depth research and real-time data products drawn from aggregate platform activity.
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State of AI 2025
An empirical 100T+ token study of LLM usage, model trends, and developer insights across OpenRouter.
Model Rankings
Live rankings based on real usage data from millions of users accessing models through OpenRouter.
Models
Browse and compare hundreds of AI models available on OpenRouter, with pricing, context length, and capabilities.
Apps
Discover applications built on OpenRouter and explore the ecosystem of AI-powered tools and services.
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Datasets API
Access the same data that powers the public rankings page as JSON. The API returns the top 50 models per day by total token usage, authenticated with your existing OpenRouter API key.
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